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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [125r] (254/616)
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.
FOR THE YEAR 1907-
57
On the 1st July Salar-ed-Douleh left Kermanshah for Tehran accom
panied by Saif-ed-Douleh, the Governor, and Zahir-ed-Douleh, Governor of
Hamadan, was appointed to act in the latter's place.
Zahir-ed-Douleh had arrived on the 20th June as Commissioner to
enquire into the state of affairs at Kermanshah. On the evening of his
arrival he came to the Consulate to see the refugees but did not come up to
visit me as he did not wish to meet Salar-ed-Dowleh. He persuaded Agha
Mahommed Mehdi and others to leave the Consulate and then went to the
Telegraph Office, where certain of the aristocratic party had taken "
bast
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
"
and induced them also to go to their homes.
Having accomplished this he telegraphed to Tehran that not a soul was
left in "
bast
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
in either places. This was a piece of oriental phraseology for
as a matter of fact the whole of the heads of the various trades and their
folio wings, being about three-fourths of the total refugees, refused to leave till
they had received some pledge through me and did not quit the Consulate
till two days later.
Thus the refugees having left on the morning of the 22nd Jure and
Salar-ed-Douleh on the evening of the same day, I was considerably freer
than I had been for some time past.
Zahir-ed-Douleh was now confirmed in his appointment. He told me
that when he visited Salar-ed-Douleh's camp the latter had not above 1,000
men, badly armed and clothed, some even without either arms or clothirg.
His Imperial Highness was apparently a great believer in bluff in which he
succeeded to a certain degree. He ga^e out that he had lO.OOu men with
him in the hills and I do not think that even the i'ersians knew quite how
many men could be raised in l.uristan. Sa 1 ar's object was not to fight but
either to frighten his brother into giving him the governorships which be
wanted or else to attract to his standard the local tribes and thus increase his
strength to the point required before taking the field. The chief mi>take he
made was in that he imagined that his personality attracted others like that of
Napoleon or Nadir Shah, to both of whom he frequently compared himself.
He had correctly gauged the political situation, he knew that the Shah would
not deal fairly with the Constitution and that there would be great distrust of
him ; he therefore proposed himself taking the side of the Constitution and so
gaining the people's affection for himself. Had he had another character,
had he been of a more honest nature there is little doubt that he would have
had an opportunity which would have with good management brought him
very near that unstable and undesirable seat, the throne of Persia.
If Salar had obtained the four Governorships for which he asked, there is
equally little doubt that his idea was to so strengthen his position 1 —he had
already allied himself by marriage to several of the chief tribes including that
of the Wali of Pusht-i-Kuh—that he could on opportunity arising attempt by
force that which he was now endeavouring to attain by policy. The mistake
he made w^as in imagining he had that which he has not—a character which by
its own force surmounts all difficulties.
To resume, Zahir-ed-Douleh had now turned his attention to the work for
which he had been appointed, namely the settling of the disputes between the
two parties, the determining with whom lay the responsibility for looting the
bazaar and in what manner the losses so incurred were to be repaid.
It is curious thnt he did not succeed in fully gaining the confidence of
the people for his sympathies were supposed to be very much with the
progressive party. _ On the 12th August he held a meeting for the decision of
certain points but it was not attended by any of the people's representatives,
in fact on the previous day a large crowd had visited his residence and had
roundly abused him while his attempts to pacify them were without result.
In m Pantime the presence of Agha Mahommed Mehdi was required at
Tehran in connection with the enquiry being made there also at the instance
of the Assembly into the cause of the riots. A large number of people
doubtful of Zahir-ed-Douleh's assurances had proceeded to Tehran and had
induced the members of the parliament to take up a separate enquiry.
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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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