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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1452] (1607/1782)
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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Donation by
an Indian
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
for
clearing the
Husainiyah
Canal, 1863.
Injuries to
and claims
of British
Kubjocts,
1866.
autliorising Messrs, Lynch to replace one of their old steamers by a new
one, and also to employ a steam launch in exceptional cases and when
the river was low.
Messrs. Lynch & Co, appear as early as 1870 to have assumed,
perhaps on * taking other capitalists into partnership, the stvle of the
"Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company"; but this designa
tion has never been recognised by the Turks, who to the present time
insist on describing the Company as " Lynch's,"
By 1863 or probably earlier, the Husainiyah Canal, on the clearance
of which large sums were spent by His Highness the Mir of Sind
between 1836 and 1842, had again become choked with silt. A sum of
about £10,000 having been devoted to the purpose of clearing it by
u an Indian
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
, since dead,"—not otherwise described but in all
probability a British subject, — Namiq
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, on whom the duty of
expending the money had somehow devolved, deputed the "Egyptian
trained engineers on his staff to make an estimate of the work and
report upon the best mode of carrying it into effect."
In 1866, as has been shown in the section on the internal history of
the province, British subjects or dependants were among the sufferers by
various burglaries which occurred in Baghdad city ; and it does not
appear that they obtained any substantial redress.
In August 1866 a somewhat amusing correspondence took place
between the British
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 and the local authorities
with reference to a bale of 65 pieces of calico, the property of a British
subject and worth 4-23i Qrans, which had been plundered more than a
year before on the road between Ba'qubah and Shahraban, Some of the
robbers were captured, in his own jurisdiction, by Taqi-ud-Din
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
Governor of Kirkiik, who recovered from them the sum of 148 Qrans
and remitted it to Baghdad, remarking that the balance was due by
their associates, who were still at large. Colonel Kemball, however,
demurred to a settlement on these lines and in writing to Namiq
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
observed: "1 beg, however, to submit to Your Excellency that the
" practice of holding each robber responsible for his share of property
plundered in company is scarcely just. In commercial transactions the
" liability of a partner may very properly be limited to the amount of
>f capital he may have contributed to the concern; but such a principle
could hardly be extended to malefactors, and I venture to hope that
# Tbe EupbratdB and Tigris Steam Kavigation Company" was incorporated, howafer,
in April 1861.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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.
- 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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- 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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