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The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. 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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and was able to arrest and imprison Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bey^ Najib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 's favourite
Shaikh and revenue farmer; but his officers were treated with contempt
by Fahad, the Shaikh of the Muntafik, who had lately succeeded
to the headship of that tribe on the death of his brother Bandar. The
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. next established himself at Diwaniyah with 3,000' men and
began to re-organise the tribal arrangements and to recover arrears of taxes;
but presently the Hindiyah dam gave way again, and with it disaj)peared
such remnants of prestige as lie still possessed. These events occurred
during the winter of 1849-50.
Early in 1850 > the regular forces of the province having mostly been
sent against a rebel Kurdish chief, the Shammar north of Baghdad were
called in by 'Abdi Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to supply their place. This tribe were not
infrequently made use of by the Turkish authorities to chastise smaller
Arab tribes, a task which they were accustomed to perform with hearty
good-will, but without much discrimination between the friends and the
foes of the Government. On the present occasion the Sham mar seem to
have raided the banks of the Tigris so energetically that the country down
to Kut-al-Amarah was turned into a desert, road and river became equally
unsafe, and trade was interrupted. Safuk, * Shaikh of the Shammar, pro
minent in the events of 1833, had been treacherously murdered by an
agent of Najib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , as already mentioned, and the chief of the tribe in
1850 was his son Farhan.t
In 1850, Shaikh Fahad having somehow disappeared, the headship of
the Muntafik tribe was disputed between Faris-bin-'Ajil and his cousin
Mansur-bin-Rashid, with dire results to trade and the country at large.
The Turks officially recognised Mausur as chief j but hardly had they
done so when his rival attacked him, driving him out and obliging him
to seek refuge in the Ka ; ab country. The Turkish authorities then
accepted Faris.
In 1852, the Baghdad Pashaliq, after nine years of continuous mis- Goverumbnt
government, was reduced almost to a wilderness. A new ruler had arrived of Namiq
Fasna, 1852<
in the person of Kamiq Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. J ; but his headstrong violence and his
* Safuk was in friendly relations with the British Politioal Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. j and in 1841
tie recovered at the request of Dr. Ross, the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Surgeouj some articles of which
the traveller Mr. (afterwards Sir A. H.) Layard had been robbed on a journey.
f On Farhan, by 1855, the Turks had conferred a monthly subsidy ; but it Was not
large enough, as that Shaikh himself once remarked, to meet his expenditure on coffee
for guests, and he always treated it as of no account.
| This may have been the NSmiq Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. who was deputed from Constantinople in
1843 to report on the Karbala massacre. There is reason to think that that once
promising official became in his later days a thorough-going reactionary.
Muntafik
troubles,
1850.
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.

Part 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .

Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:

'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).

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2 volumes (1624 pages)

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Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The foliation sequence 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. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:

Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.

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Reference: IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1
Title: 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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