'Précis of correspondence regarding Trucial Chiefs, 1854-1905'

The volume is a précis on the rulers and tribes of the Trucial Coast (now the United Arab Emirates). It was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha and printed in Calcutta [Kolkata] at the Government of India Central Printing Office, 1906. The volume begins (folio 4) with a short preface, written by Saldanha on 29 January 1906. It is then organised into fourteen chapters and an appendix, as follows: Chapter I, Dynastic changes among the Trucial chiefs; Chapter II, Payment of fines direct to the sufferers; Chapter III, Report about Arab tribes, 1854; Chapter IV, Report about Arab tribes, 1855; Chapter V, Inter-tribal wars, 1854-1873; Chapter VI, Piracies in 1854-1855; Chapter VII, Piracies and other maritime irregularities, 1859-1861; Chapter VIII, Specimens of complaints from the Arab littoral, 1866; Chapter IX, The Shihiyin tribe: operations against them: their position, 1855-1859; Chapter X, Telegraph and tribes at Mussendom [Musandam]: jurisdiction and sovereignty over the peninsula, 1864; Chapter XI, Question of jurisdiction over the coast from Dibba to Khar Kalba and the territory about Ras Mussendom; Chapter XII, Internal affairs; Chapter XIII, British relations with the Trucial chiefs, 1873-1905; Chapter XIV, Persian relations with the Arab chiefs on the Pirate Coast: distinctive Trucial flag, 1899-1905; Appendix, Genealogical tables of the Trucial chiefs.

The volume is arranged in fourteen chapters, each given an upper-case Roman numeral and some further divided into sections, each of these given a lower-case Roman numeral or letter in alphabetical order. The paragraphs are numbered throughout the volume, from 1 to 207. At the beginning of the volume (folios 5 and 6) is a list of contents that refers to the paragraph number.

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