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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [112r] (228/616)
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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AND THE MASKAT POLITICAL
AGENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
FOE THE YEAR 1907-1908.
33
This ^popular " movement was brutally quelled by threatening the more
active with expulsion from the town mounted backwards on donkeys. Demo
cratic zeal was unable to face this ordeal, and the Postmaster still busies his
talents in the task of increasing the deficit in the Post Office cash box.
18. In January a change took place in the Customs Office, when the local
Director, Mr. H. Glover, who had held the post for a number of years, was
transferred to Mohammerah, and Sheikh Abdul Bussain was transferred from
the Shushter Office to take his place.
Sheikh Abdul Hassain is friendly to Europeans. He at one time in his
career spent 14 years in Burma, and became a naturalised British Indian
subject. He has since his appointment given entire satisfaction to the
European part of the community.
Northern Arabistan.
19. In April the Governorship of Luristan was conferred on
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.
Mukarram to be held conjointly with that of Arabistan.
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.
has spent some four months in the company of Sheikh Khaza'l,
and a strong friendship, probably to some extent genuine, was established
between them. On May 2nd he eventually left JSasiri for Dizful with the
declared intention of proceeding to Kurramabad by way of Luristan. It will
be seen elsewhere that he was unduly sanguine in his designs, and that he had to
retrace his steps and proceed up the Ahwaz-Ispahan road. This threw him
in contact with the Bakhtiari Khans, and he made his debut in the sphere of
Bakhtiari politics.
Before leaving Nasiri he had induced Sheikh Khaza'l to accept respon
sibility for the Government of Northern Arabistan in his absence.
20. 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.
Mukarram's departure was hailed with truculent joy by
the inhabitants of Shuster, and in a less degree of Dizful, and Sheikh Khaza'l
was at once confronted with the difficulty of finding Deputy Governors for
the two towns, whom the townspeople would accept. Anyone imagined to
be directly dependent on 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.
Mukarram was anathema to them, and
the Sheikh in view of his friendship with 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.
was considered as tainted
not only in his own person but also in that of his immediate subordinates.
The difficulty was solved by the recent alliance with the Shahab-us-
Sultanah, who supplied Khuda Karam Khan, Ohaharlang, of Kala Tul, for
Shushter, and a well-known man, the Salf-un-Nizam, for Dizful.
This arrangement, though promising well, cannot be said to have been
particularly successful. The Sheikh's administration has been of a temporising,
if not of a nominal nature, and he has made no effort to forcibly establish his
authority, excusing himself on the grounds that if he dealt with the Shusteris
according to their deserts he would gain nothing and would certainly be taken
to task by the authorities in Tehran.
Outside the town he has exercised control over the Bait Saad and
A1 Kathir Arabs, but has not attempted to deal with the disturbing forces
which make peace and security in the country west of Dizful unknown.
These forces are principally represented by the Chanana section of * the
Beni Lam residing in Turkish territory, and the Dirakwand and Sagwand Lurs.
21. Shushier. —Shuster has passed throughout the year in a chronic state
of internal unrast and agitation variegated by occasional periods of peace or
inertia induced by exhaustion.
At the beginning of the year under report Sheikh Murtaza, son of the
late Sheikh Muhammad Ali, returned to Arabistan from Tehran and was
acknowledged by Sheikh Khaza'l and 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.
Mukarram. At this time in
the absence 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.
Mukarram from Shushter the members and the
partisans of the rival house of Saiyid Abdus Samad in Shushter took the
opportunity of interfering with the freedom of, and persecuting, the represen
tatives and supporters of the other family. Sheikh Murtaza hearing this
suddenly left Nasiri without notice and presented himself at Shushter. His
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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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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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