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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [123v] (251/616)
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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54 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.
of the loot found its way to the house of Azam-ed-Douleh, afterwards nor
Governor of the town. ^
On the evening of the 1st His Britannic Majesty's Consular Suree
Captain Crossle, had been informed that there was an idea of taking refuee 0 ■ 1,
the Consulate : he bad replied that it could not be permitted and closed th 1
front gate of the grounds. As, however, the garden has no walls that
was not
great hindrance and the people came pouring in from the boundaries, among f
them Mullah Agha Mahommad Mehdi, the leader of the popular party h*
brother, Mullah Agha Mahmood, and four out of the six elected members of tlT
assembly, together with the chiefs of all the various trades. Captain Crcssl 6
very wisely confiscated all tteirarms, a procedure which I kept up all the tiai 0
they were in "
bast
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
." I now received orders that I was not to leave Kerman-
shah. (It appears that the Russian Minister had given the order that the two
Consuls were to go to meet Salar-ed-Douleh under some misunderstandinf?
with the result that His Britannic Majesty's [Minister was srmewhat puzzled
by my unauthorised movements.) I was further instructed to inform the Gov
ernor that these people had come to the Consulate against my express wishes'
that they had no right to appeal to a foreign Consul in this manner, and that
I should be glad if arrangements could be m^de by which they would leave
peaceably as 1 had no means at my disposal to expel them.
I informed the Governor in the terms of the above orders, which
represented the position which was taken up both at Tehran and at Kerinaii.
shah throughout the incident. I received messages both from Atabeg and the'
Shah saying that it was extraordinary that a British Consul should protect
rioters (for of course the people were made to bear the blame for having been
looted) but I replied in the usual terms, referring them to the Minister in
Tehran.
Throughout the affair Sir Cecil Spring-Eiee impressed upon me the
necessity of showing no partizanship and of avoiding the appearance of taking
sides. I attempted to carry out these orders to the letter but the Persiars in
Kermanshfah had a fixed idea that they owed the Constitution to the English
that the telegram which King Edward VII was supposed to hare sent to the
Assembly congratulating them was a genuine message (the Russian Consul was
to a great degree responsible for this idea), and that the English being ruled
by a Constitutional Goyernment would always be prepared to help the peonle's
side ; this idea was supported by the sympathetic tone of the British press and
in consequence all my attempts to show impartiality, while at the same time
refusing to expel the refugees for want of force, merely gained for me with the
aristocratic party the reputation of a deep and cunning diplomatist. The
ignorance of the local people, even country Goyernors, in such matters is some-
what amazin^
'6*
On the morning of the Cth June a letter was placed in my hands bv a
tions^the filf ^ en i C ! 0Sed in Whicl1 1 fonild two oommunica-
f was addressed to my Mirza and the second I took for
wCt ft meant M t -' # tl19 . m ® ksen f er sta « ed . I was unable to make out
i j -■»meant. My Mirza had not returned from Harsia, accordinelv I
W fofnd 0 .ft"'* t0 the i-?r S ^ e With 1,is Ml,za iri orde:r t0 it
enclosure S Uefir/^, SOme llttle dlffi ( cult - T that «cond letter was an
it i.i• i, 5 a 00 Py of a letter sent to Mullah Agha
Mahomed Mehdi, before mentioned. The matter appeared too serious for
ure^n^Mehdi to>aise'tbe p e ^ er ' " Proved to be a^ inflammatory ^sUo
foreT the neorfe cmi + ^ 10US if h . ^ SinCe ' 80 " was stat ed ( without
torce the people could not come by their rights. Salar wrote everv man
^11 oSlfshoulrwtaT the S " W " eld "u- 11 tlie Cause of his faith aild that
their cries those wlin wo « . a .' 0 J" w hite sheet of the Jehad and incite by
do as he^as^renii^rpfl T ^ghtmg for Isiam ; he added that if Mehdi did not
per TirieSo the IVlT W ' rSf i T. a Jew or an idol worship-
the rv .-v j , simply stated that he was to inform me that if
menJe hostel T^ r dld .r, n r th . ing u b I 22nd of th e ""^h he would eoi.-
and asked the Mirza to holp the Mter enCl0Sed ' C0Py 0f )iiS letter to MeMi
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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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