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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [201v] (407/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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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.
The caravan routes throughout the year were unsafe, but no att
were reported until October when three small caravans, conveying dates f
Hasa to Ojair on the coast, were looted. The non-occurrence of earlier
rages was due partly to the fact that journeys of caravans were onlv md
at rare intervals during the hot weather, and then under strong escorts a
partly because all the tribesmen were congenially employed in the sie?' ^
ravaging of the Katif oasis. For their misdemeanours, the A1 Morra aH
Ajman Sheikhs were deprived of their annual subsidies for several month
but the payments were restored to them in November, before the arrival *
Mahir
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
in Hasa. Vdl ^
In Katif the misgovernment was still worse than in Hasa Th
Kaimmakam, Muhammad Amin, seems early in the year to have endeavoured
to put pressure upon the town and village people for his own pecuniary
profit, first by demanding subscriptions for various local improvements then
ordering a new census of the date trees, and finally by calling for an advance
payment of the date revenue, ostensibly for disbursement to the militarv
garrisons of Hasa and Doha (Katar). He proved himself amenable, however
to bribes and none of the threatened measures were enforced, though in regard
to the date census, a commission was actually sent down from Basrah to count
the trees, with the result that after two or three villages had been dealt with
it seemed likely that the result would require a diminution rather than an
enhancement of the revenue demand, and the investigation was forthwith
closed.
After these events we find the Kaimmakam apparently on excellent
terms with the Katiiis, so that when grave trouble occurred between the settled
people and the Bedouin in June he failed to satisfy the latter, with very
serious results.
A comparatively restricted blood-feud had been proceeding since
September 1907, as mentioned in last year's report, between some Bani Hajir
Bedouin and the Shias of Saihat who have always lived in tribal fashion
under their own Sheikh," occupying a large walled and well guarded village
with its date gardens separated by a strip of desert from the rest of the
oasis. A fresh incident was added to this feud when the Saihatis attacked
some Awamir Bedouin in a disputed date-garden on the 10th April 1908. In
this connection three Saihatis and two Bedouins were killed, and the Saihatis
thereupon put themselves into a state of siege. Six weeks later a fracas
occurred in the town of Katif, started by a Bedouin and a water-seller, in
which 40 persons were said to have been injured, and though the trouble
was temporarily laid through the exertions of Haji Mansur
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, it was
afterwards found that the Bedouin had only withdrawn until their friends
could be summoned to join them in a vigorous attack upon the residents of
the oasis. The Katif people themselves were also partly to blame, as they
had tried to shut out the tribesmen from visiting the uncared-for gardens on
the outskirts of the oasis to which the latter undoubtedly had a prescriptive
right sanctioned by custom. Hostilities recommenced about the middle of
July, one of the first acts of the Bedouin being to attack and loot two boats
lying in the " stream " of Katif, of which one belonged to Bahrain. The
Bedouin were now assembled in some thousands, and occupied themselves
nightly in attacking the outlying hamlets and setting fire to all the thatched
huts which were not contained within walled villages. Parties from the
town of Katif including detachments of soldiers made occasional nocturnal
sallies, but they seemed to suffer as much loss as they inflicted. On the 1st
August the Kaimmakam telegraphed urgently to the Wali, through the
Bahrain Post Office and Bushire, for reinforcements including a man-of-war
and some artillery. On the 29th July, H. M. S. Lapwing arrived in Bahrain,
but as she had grounded on a reef she was unable immediately to proceed to
Katif to ascertain the true state of affairs there and to enforce the maritime
peace, if there was any likelihood of its bein^ broken by piratical Bedouin.
In the circumstances Lieutenant Commander Gouldsmith accepted the
services of the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
steam launch to carry an officer, Sub -Lieutenant
Prideaux-Brune, R. N., to interview the Kaimmakam for the acquisition of
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The volume contains Administration Report on 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 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on 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 Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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 Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); 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 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews by the 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. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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 folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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