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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919' [124r] (254/396)
The record is made up of 1 volume (194 folios). It was created in 1916-1920. 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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POR THE YEAH 1918.
13
The Shiraz mails continued to pass through Lingah Pe r the rrost part
th.e roads to and from Linsah "were sale.
Condition roa.s. ^ There was only One incident on the road
between Bandar Abbas and Lingah. The Deputy Governor requisitioned 420
donkeys for the South Persia Eities and despatched them to Bandar Abbas on
the 29th J tine. The donkeys were seized at Duzgooa by men belonging to villages
nf Hirang and Duzgoon and taken to Hirang. The tufangchis of the Deputy
Governor who were in charge of the donkeys were severely beaten. His
Majesty's Representative strongly represented the ca^e to the Soulet-ul-Mulk,
Khan of Bastak, who punished the culprits, collected the donkeys and des
patched them to Bandar Abbas.
No instance of gun running was re-
Arm9 traffic - ported during the year.
Of the three slaves, who were from the
Trucial coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and who had not had
Slavetraffic their cases settled at the close of the last
01i e absconded before settlement of his
case, one was allowed to go wherever he liked and the remaining one was sent
back to the
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.
Agent at Shargah in order to get his case settled there.
Of the 11 slaves who took refuge at this Vice-Consulate during the year,
nine were manumitted, one absconded before settlement of his case and" the
remaining one was sent back to the
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.
Agent at Shargah.
The mail service was maintained by the Persian Customs launch io and
British interests.
from Henjam where the British India
Steam Navigation Company's Mail stea
mers were calling fortnightly.
Mails were occasionally also brought by His Majesty's Transports, which
visited the port on 11 occasions.
The port suffered throughout the year from the scarcity of merchant stea
mers. only four steamers of the British India Steam Navigation Company's
visiting the port during the period. The
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Steam Navigation Com
pany's S. S. f Zayani " called at this port on two occasions and a Chinese
steamer once.
One Chinese steamer chartered by the British India Steam Navigation
Foreign interest.. Company visited the port during the year.
J. H. Bill, Esq., J.C.S., Deputy Political Eesident, Bushire, visited Lingah
Visits of the Deputy
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.
. OU H. M. S. Muzaffar " On the 19th
T , January and on H. M. S. {t Lawrence "
m the 2nd July.
vieitsof Hi. Majesty's ships. His Majesty's ships visited the port
on 13 occasions during the year.
In February a sailing boat belonging to Haji Eais Hasan of Lingah, after
Pi racyi disposing of cargo at Nakhl Taqi, was
boarded at that port by a party of five
armo 8 P a f e ^ ers ^ 0r Lingah. When a day out at sea they produced fire-
on n the boat proceed to the port of Amari where
,• f rtV ? ' :)0 J in ^ the crew and carried off all the specie on board amount-
wg to about Rs. 7,000 proceeds of the sale of cargo.
erl a Sambook belonging to Ali bin Haji Mansur, Bahraini, ground-
Natl 1 t • with a cargo of dates which was looted by the people of
<vp +1? a( ^ 1 a Both the cases remained unsettled towards the end
or tne year.
rwJ? le -i C ? se ^ ie " Zaver Parsad," which was wrecked off Busati in
October 1913, still remained unsettled.
A sailing boat with cargo and specie to the value of Rs. 90,000 belonging
Shipwrecks to ^ aru( l or ' Bahrain was wrecked, in Sep
tember, off Tibn.
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The volume includes Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1915 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1916); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1916 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1917); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1917 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1919); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1918 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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. for the Year 1919 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920). The 1915 and 1919 Reports bear manuscript corrections written in pencil.
The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political 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 provide a wide variety of information, including details of senior British administrative personnel and local officials; descriptions of the various areas and their inhabitants; political, judicial and economic matters; notable events; medical reports; details of climate; communications; the movements of Royal Navy ships; military matters; the slave trade; and arms traffic.
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- 1 volume (194 folios)
- Arrangement
The reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the first folio after the front cover, and continues through to 194 on the last folio before the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The following folio needs to be folded out to be read: f. 36.
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- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:194v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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