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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [213v] (431/616)
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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10
ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE PERSIAN GULP
Consulate-General, Major Trevor taking over charge from Monsieur Chaloin
on his departure. A successor had not been appointed when the year closed.
Monsieur Chaloin had so far been a satisfactory colleague in that he took no
interest or part in Bushire or Gulf politics; depended mainly on the friendly
offices of the
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 his information, and his co-operation could be
relied upon when needed. He did not, however, give satisfaction to his own
Government.
The honorary duties of this Consulate remained in the hands of the
Messrs. Wonckhaus's Agent throughout the year. The grounds for the Nor
wegian Consulate at Bushire are not apparent, and the post is a complete
sinecure.
Turkish interests at Bushire have, for many years, been in the hands of
a local Persian gentleman by name Mulla Husein. Towards the end of the
year, however, the Porte decided to send a Consul de carriere to Bushire in
the person of Nebil Zia Bey, who is apparently expected to remain some time,
and has brought his family from Turkey. He has not been in the East
before and seems discontented with his lot.
Doctor Abel Combier arrived at the beginning of 1909 to replace Dr.
Bussiere. He is an officer in the Military Colonial Medical Service, and has
maintained cordial relations with the
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.
since his arrival.
The year 1909 will be long remembered for the Nationalist upheaval
which supervened throughout Persia,
Local Politics. an( j finally terminated in the deposition
or abdication of His Majesty Muhammad AIL Shah, ^ in July 1909, and the
re-inception of an administration on Constitutional lines, with a boy of ten
summers as a figure-head Shah, under the guidance of a Regent chosen by the
representatives of the people.
Before narrating the part played by Pars and Bushire in these events,
it is necessary to explain briefly the general situation which prevailed in
Persia at the beginning of the year.
The conflict between the forces of liberalism and re-action had been
seething for months in Northern Persia; the Nationalists had now got the
upper hand in Tabriz, there had been an abortive rising at Meshed; and
Muhammad Ali Shah must surely have come to realise that all serious hope of
being able to stem the tide of popular feeling, and to effect reversion to despo
tic government was past. He still, however, maintained an attitude of
dogged obstinacy, and, apparently hoping that the position might ultimately
be saved by Russian intervention, contiinued to burk, by every sort of subter
fuge, the promised electoral order necessary for the formation of a new
Medjliss. Yet, except at Tabriz, the exasperation of the people had not been
expressed by any overt act of revolutionary hostility. Early dn January,
however, disturbances broke out in Ispahan; Yezd and Resht followed suit
early in Pebruary, and then Pars and the Gulf ports took up the cue.
The peasant population of Pars, as a whole, is essentially bucolic and
uncivilized. There is no "nationalist spirit" properly so-caJlled, abroad
among the peasantry at large, but the Nationalist propaganda, preached as
it was with a strong admixture of religious exhortation, naturally appeals to
the more truculent element of the country-side, so long at any rate, as tne
main feature of the creed continues to be the non-payment of the taxes and
the chance of enrichment by brigandage in some form or spoliation of govern
ment Customs. So it was in this case.
The movement in the south was started by a fanatical Mulla of Lar,
named Seyyid Abdul Husein. In 1907, when affairs in Shiraz were giving
trouble to the Government, this firebrand proceeded to the head-quarters
the province and endeavoured to upset authority there. On the arnva
the Zil-es-Sultan however he made himself scarce but continued to roa
about the Darab and Pasa districts with a force of tufangchis, preying up *
the properties of his enemies in Shiraz, such as the sons of the Kawam,
keeping the country in a general state of unrest and lawlessness.
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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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