The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive - Asian and African studies blog
Asian and African studies blog The View from a Hill: Making Sense of Ras Dharbat Ali in the Archive On 20 November 1933, John Gilbert Laithwaite, a civil servant at the India Office, received a letter from Trenchard Craven William Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, in response to Laithwaite’s request for clarification on the spelling of a landmark in Dhofar known as ‘Ras Dharbat Ali’. In his letter, Fowle defers the matter to the Political Agent in Muscat, Major Claude Bre...
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