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‘Administration report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1888-89.’ [51r] (10/60)
The record is made up of 1 volume (29 folios). It was created in 1889. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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RESIDENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
AND MUSCAT POLITICAL
AGENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
EOB, 1888-89.
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some ability and strength of character, and his loss is calculated to weaken the
hands of the Chief. Shaikh Ahmed was very fond of sport, and went on
hunting excursions to the mainland every year. He was reputed sensual and
somewhat harsh, and was more feared than liked. He has left a numerous
progeny.
33. In June, Shaikh Jasim-hin-Mohammed Thani of El-Katr made over
tures to the Shaikhs of Bahrain for a reconciliation with them, and Shaikh Esau
consulted me on the subject. I recommended him to meet Shaikh Jasim's
overtures in a friendly spirit, and not to place difficulties in the way of a
friendly understanding, provided it did not affect his own rights, interests, and
obligations. Shaikh Jasim subsequently sent his son Abdullah to Bahrain, and
terms of amity were vaguely arranged.
34. It is probable that Shaikh Jasim sought the friendship of the Bahrain
Shaikhs because of his war with the Beniyas. He also probably wished to be
once more in a position to place money in deposit in Bahrain for mercantile
and other transactions.
35. Mohamed-bin-Khaleefah, uncle of Shaikh Esau, and for many years a
political detenu at Aden, having been allowed to proceed to Mecca, intimated
that he would no longer accept the allowance provided for him by the Chief of
Bahrain, as he received an allowance from the Turkish Government, sufficient
for his wants.
36. In Julyiit was reported that the Turkish authorities of El-Hasa con
templated rebuilding the town of Zobarah on the mainland opposite Bahrain,
and establishing a military post there. It was stated by the Chief of Bahrain
that Shaikh Jasim had permission from the Mutaserrif to commence building
and was about to do so.
37. Shaikh Ssau protested against the occupation of Zobarah by Jasim,
on the ground of his ancient rights there, and of the menace to Bahrain which
such a proceeding would involve. Government decided that both Shaikh
Jasim and Nasir-bin-Mubarik might, if necessary, be warned that they could
not be permitted to form a settlement at Zobarah. The project, however, was
abandoned, and no further action became necessary.
38. In September, the Chief of Bahrain wrote to complain of the increase
of disorder and insecurity on the sea, and dwelt on the inability of the Turkish
Government to suppress piracy. The Chief alluded chiefly to the robberies of
vessels in Turkish waters about El-Kateef.
39. In the spring of 1889 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bent arrived in the
Gulf from England, having come out for the purpose of examining the ancient
tumuli at Bahrain under the auspices of the British Museum. They received
every assistance in carrying out their work from the Chief of Bahrain, and
succeeded in excavating two of the largest tombs, but no inscriptions were
found to fix the period of this ancient necropolis.
4.—EL-KATR.
40. The political condition of El-Katr continues to be unsatisfactory, but
irregularities by sea were fewer than during the preceding year on that
coast.
41. Owing to a severe defeat experienced by the followers of Shaikh
Jasim at the hands of the forces of the Abu-Dhabbi Chief in the month of
May 1888, in which affair Shaikh Jasim's favourite son, Ali, was slain, the
energies of that notorious Shaikh have been mainly devoted to measures for
avenging himself on the Beniyas and their dependants^
42. Jasim had himself headed a somewhat successful raid on the enemy in
March, in which it is said he seized about 500 camels, which were distributed
amongst his followers.
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Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (no 265, Foreign Department serial no 25) for the year 1888-89, published by Authority and printed by the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta [Kolkata]. A copy of a letter from Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General for Fars, to Henry Mortimer Durand, Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department), dated 21 June 1889, is included in the report (folio 48), the original of which submitted the report to Government, under the following headings:
Part 1 ( General Summary ), submitted by Ross and dated 21 June 1889 (folios 49-57), containing numbered summaries of local political affairs, and incidents or events of particular note for: 1) Oman and Muscat state; 2) Oman pirate coast, including Ras-el-Khaimah [Ra’s al-Khaymah], Umm-el-Kawain [Umm al-Qaywayn], ’Ajman, Shargah, Debaye [Dubai], and Abu-Dhabbi [Abu Dhabi]; 3) El-Bahrain; 4) El-Katr [Qatar]; 5) Nejd and El-Hasa [Al-Hasa]; 6) Fars and the Persian Coast; 7) Persian Arabistan; and 8) Persian Baluchistan. Summaries of official appointments, naval movements, slave trade activity and climatic observations taken at the observatory at Bushire conclude the report. Appendix A is entitled ‘Notes on the “Ibn Rasheed” family of Jebel Shammer, and present position of Mohammed “Ibn Rasheed”’, with a genealogical table of the Rasheed dynasty. Appendix B is a translation of the Shah of Persia’s proclamation of 1888. Appendix C is a copy of the regulations for the navigation of the river Karun. Appendix D contains tabulated meteorological data for the year, supplied by the Bushire observatory.
Part 2 ( Annual Report of the Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and Consulate for the Year 1888-89 ), submitted by Lieutenant Wallace Stratton, Her Britannic Majesty’s Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and Consul at Muscat, containing a summary of affairs at Muscat (folios 58-59), under the headings: political affairs, official changes, and slave trade.
Part 3 ( Report on the Trade of South Persia and Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1888 ), submitted by Ross (folios 60-69). The report comprises a short summary of the year’s trade, with notes on: produce, including grain, opium, tobacco, gum and wool; steamers and freights; imports, including cotton goods, copper, loaf sugar, and petroleum; banking agencies; the opening of the river Karun to navigation; and the pearl fisheries. Appendix A comprises tabulated data on import, exports and revenue, in the Gulf ports and towns of Bushire, Shiraz, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Bahrain and the Arab coast. An index to the trade tables can be found at folio 61v.
Part 4 ( Muscat trade report for the year 1888-89 ), submitted by Stratton and dated 17 May 1889 (folios 70-75), comprising a brief summary of the year’s trade at Muscat, and also containing tabulated data on imports and exports at Muscat (listed by commodity), and the nationality and average tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat.
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- 1 volume (29 folios)
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The report is arranged into four numbered parts, with lettered appendices containing further reports and statistical data following each part. The General Summary is further organised into numbered sections, and further divided into paragraphs which are also numbered, from 1 to 102.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio, on number 48, and ends on the last folio, on number 75.
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