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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1414] (1569/1782)
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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Results of
the Oudh
Bequest at
Najaf, 1852.
Local ma
nagement of
the Bequest
1852-54.
Accordingly, in October 1852, the Government of India cancelled
their original orders ; the Oudh Bequest was made payable from the
Baghdad Treasury; and the
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.
was authorised to exercise
" a judicious supervision over the expenditure of the money
It seems probable that during the whole of this period discussions
regarding the Oudh Bequest were conducted upon the basis of the
misleading English translation of the Agreement of 1825. Various
passages in the correspondence of Colonel Rawlinson and Lieutenant
Kemball indicate this.
In 1852, in a despatch about the Najaf revolt addressed to the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colonel Rawlinson remarked ;
" Your Lordship will remember that the Indian Government ..... pays a
" sum of £5,000 annually, in virtue of its agreement with the late King of
" Oudh, for the maintenance of the Shrine of Nejjef, and the charities
" connected therewith; and you will understand that this payment has
" drawn a vast concourse of devotees from India to reside in the town.
" Their presence furnishes me with an additional motive for wishing to
" prevent a recurrence of that scene of carnage which took place at the
u sack of Kerbela ten years ago "
The manner in which Major Rawlinson, the
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.
at
Baghdad, consequent upon the instructions of Government to exercise a
c general supervision over the disbursements of the Lucknow benefactions
to Karbala and ^Najaf, with a view to preventing the misappropriation
u of the funds to political or personal ends/^ proceeded in the local
administration of the Oudh Bequest was described by himself in a letter
to the British Resident at Lucknow, in Mav 1854, as follows :
I entered last year into communication with the Chief Priests of # those places, Mirza
Ali Naki and ^hekh Murtaza, and concerted with them a scheme of distribution which
would, 1 conceived, reconcile the greatest practicable amount of public benefit with a
due regard to the terms of the original bequest, in this scheme, while providing
completely for the individual claims of the Mujtahids and all the various religious
establishments connected with the shrines, I secured at the same time a liberal
allowance for purely charitable purposes, and even for objects of general interest and
utility, such as repairing the mosques and colleges, and keeping open the canal from
the Euphrates upon which Kurbala is dependent for its supply of water. It is only
fail to the Chief Piiests to state that they responded most cordially to every sugges
tion which I offered and sought to secularize the distribution rather than to tie it up
for exclusively religious purposes.
Having obtained from Mirza ; Ali Naqi an exact account of the appli
cation of the Karbala funds under this system during the year 1852-1853,
Major Rawlinson forwarded it to the British Resident at Lucknow with
these remarks.
* Karbala and Najaf.
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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)
- Arrangement
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.
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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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- 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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