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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919' [57r] (120/396)
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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for the tear 1916.
35
After September there was immunity from robberies on the Kerman
section of the Bandar Abbas-Kerman road, though there have been one or
two minor raids on it on Bandar Abbas territory. A large number of big cara
vans have come up safely for the South Persia iiities in earlier cases without
escorts, and the two parties of Indian reinforcements under Lieutenant Eraser
and Captain Wagstaff made their way up safely in August without being
attacked.
In September the South Persia Eifles placed a party of Afshar levies under
a local Persian on the road, with their headquarters at Baft. They appear
to have worked very w r ell and with their help the delivery of the telegraph
material along the road up to Kerman was safely carried out. Large quanti
ties of food supplies have also been, and are still being, brought down from
Eafsinjan and laid out for the telegraph party at Deh Sard, Dashtab, Baft and
Qala Askar, Up to the present this traffic has gone on without contretemps.
The construction of the telegraph line, which has now (3rd March) passed
Daulatabad, and the work of various road-survey parties has also been carried
out witbout molestation within Kerman territory. This is a highly satisfactory
state of affairs.
The same unfortunately cannot be said for the Yezd road which has
seldom enjoyed freedom from Ears robbers, for many weeks on end. A force
of 30 (nomina ly 50) Bakhtiaris was detailed to support the Qarasuran, who
w r hen present on the scene at all are themselves suspect, and seems on the
whole to have done useful, if not entirely satisfactory, service, considering its
quite inadequate strength.
In December the Salar Mufakhkham was appointed to the Governorship
of KaMnjan. He w r as given some reinforcements and w T as specially instructed
to endeavour to restore security on the road He has been active and as suc
cessful as could be expected. A difficulty has been the deficiency of ammuni
tion for the local forces. All that was obtainable locally was bought up and
His Majesty's Consul endeavoured, but without success, to obtain fresh supplies
from Mask at and the Gulf Ports Later His Majesty's Minister held out hopes
of the possibility of supplying some of the many kinds of rifle ammunition
required from Tehran, but the matter has not up to the present progressed
beyond this stage. The bulk of the raiding took place between Anar and Yezd,
but on one or two occasions robberies were carried out as far west as Kabutar
Khan. In one of these the much suffering JVJajd-ul-Islam w r as stripped, to the
malicious delight of his enemies. The raiders appear to be chiefly Lashanis,
Chaharrahis and Tulakis. The so-called " Baharlu, " or Earsi raids did not
stop short at the Yezd road. The district of Zarind was plundered by Ears
bands, and a caravan w^as looted as far north as Chilpaya, at a spot convenient
ly stated by the local authorities to be beyond Kerman, and in Khorasan,
territory.
Turning to the other end of the Province, relations were strained, at any
rate at the end of the year, between the Zargham-us-Saltanah of Kahnu (Rudbar)
and
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Khan Bameri. Exaggerated reports of active hostilities w 7 ere re
ceived, but nothing very serious in fact took place until, apparently in Novem
ber, Chiragh Khan and Mir Murad Khan, described as leading men of Jalq,
Dizak, returning home with three other men from a visit to the Zargham-us-
Saltanah were ambushed by Jallal Khan, son of
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Khan. Eour of the
party are stated to have been killed and one to have escaped (according to
Major Keyes, vidj his Diary No. 1^, dated 16th December 1916, Murad Khan
was killed and Chiragh Khan dangerously wounded). The Zargham-us-
Saltanah swore vengeance on the murdereis of his late guests, but it is under
stood that he has lately entered into pourparlers _ wdth
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Khan, with a
view to a peaceful adjustment. He wrote to His Majesty's Consul, obviously
but not ostensibly in this connection, asking for assistance in obtaining cartrid
ges, and his failure to receive any may have led him to give up the idea of
trying conclusions with
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Khan in war. The general view T of
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Khan in Kerman is that he has fallen from grace. Whereas he used always
to be on the side of Government, it is said that he, or his sons, have now taken
to lawless courses.
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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)
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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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