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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [57v] (119/616)
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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4 HE VIEW BY THE POLITICAL KESIDENT IN THE PERSIAN GULP.
Legation by representatives of other powers, in recommendation of concerted
international action, have been successfully parried for the time being, on the
ostensible ground that the political juncture is inconvenient. The progress of this
pregnant question however cannot be long delayed; meanwhile Major Morton
K. E. has been continuing his exhaustive investigations throughout the year on
both banks of the Karun and at the close was on the point of proceeding to India
to draw up his report.
His Majesty's Government have recognised the desirability of supporting
the Shaikh of Mahommerah's position and of keeping him in confidence to a
reasonable extent in regard to developments of the Irrigation Question; and he
himself rightly or wrongly feels confident that his paramount influence with the
peasant population of Southern Arabistan places him in a position to block any
attempt to carry through a scheme in which his own position and interests are
not in his opinion adequately represented.
Mahommerah Aflata. . Turning to Mahommerah affairs, the
chief events of note have been.—
{a) The transfer of the government of Behbehan district from the hands
of the Governor-General of Fars to the control of the Shaikh of Mahommerah
and the Bakhtiari Khans in concert.
(6) The marriage of Shaikh Chasib, son and heir of Shaikh Khazal, to the
daughter of Haji Eais ut Tujar, his father's well-known adviser and factotum;
an alliance eminently calculated to promote the material interest and influence
of the
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
's astute henchman.
(c) The very close intimacy which has developed between Shaikh Khazal
and Shaikh Mubarak of Koweit. Though the one is a Shia and the other a Sunni
Mahommedan, apart from their persuasion, they obviously have much in common
at the present time. Each has a portentous " feringi " scheme of great magnitude
looming on his horizon and promising a revolution of local conditions to an extent
of which neither Chief can form more than a very hazy conception; in one case
it is the Karun Irrigation Scheme and in the other the Baghdad Eailway. The
contemplation of these problems brings with it no doubt dreams of political absorp
tion as well as of wealth, and the need and means of active self-preservation must
surely be their main bond of sympathy and theme of discussion.
Their ability to meet more frequently than heretofore is as a matter of fact
primarily the direct result of the recent purchase by Shaikh Mubarak of a fine
sea-going steam yacht in which it delights him to make frequent trips to the Shatt-
el-Arab, but the intimacy has been sufficiently marked to excite comment,
especially in Eussian quarters.
The communings of the two Arab celebrities have been variously attributed
{a) to the attractions of Pan-Islamism; (6) to dreams of the inception of an Arab
commonwealth in Central Arabia ; (c) to an intention on their part (according
to Eussian suspicions, actively instigated by the British) to assert their indepen
dence of Persia and Turkey respectively; {d) to the fear of Shaikh Mubarak of
absorption by his friends the English, alleged to be fast becoming inconvenient
to him; and to a desire on his part to abdicate and retire to seclusion to some
quiet spot in his neighbour's territory between the Tigris and the Karun.
Locally no tangible foundation has ever been apparent for any one of these
conjectures, and it will probably prove in the sequel that we need go no further
to account for the close freindship of the two Shaikhs than the community of in
terest and sentiment first indicated.
The negociations for the acquisition from the Shaikh of Mahommerah of a
Housing Of His Majesty's Vice-Cousul. site for a new Vice-Consulate, which have
been protracted, seem to be approaching
finality, and it is hoped that the coming year will see our representative more suit
ably accommodated.
III.—KERMANSHAH.
There was a change of incumbents during the year, Captain Gough proceeding
on leave to Europe in August and being succeeded by Captain Haworth, who after
vacating Kennan in November 1905 had proceeded on furlough. During a short
interregnum which intervened Captain Crossls, LM.S^ Consular Surgeon, was in
charge of the Consulate.
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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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There is a list of contents at the front of each Report.
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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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