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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [2574] (1091/1262)
The record is made up of 1 volume (1165 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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2574
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
arms in Kur-
ram. 1898.
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
arms in Sou
thern Wazi-
ristan, 190L
No establish
ed port for
fciiese arms
before 1898.
cartridges captured in the Afridi country however, were some manufac
tured by Messrs. Kynoch and the Societe Cartoucherie Beige, which
may have been imported from the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
At length, at the end of November 1898, a Martini-Henry rifle
marked a Fracis, Times and Company, 27 Leadenhall Street, London'^,
was purchased from a Ghilzai trader in Kurram by Captain G. O.
Roos-Keppel, Political Officer of the valley, who reported that the
Ghilzais had that season brought rifles for sale in unusually large numbers,
and that almost any number of trade rifles corresponding to this and
to another specimen obtained by him were available in the neighbourhood.
Four other trade rifles of different patterns were subsequently bought
by Captain Roos-Keppel in Kurram, which it did not appear could
have reached the frontier from the Indian side.
In 1901, in the course of the Mahsud blockade, overwhelming
evidence was received of the arrival in Waziristan of
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
arms
and ammunition in large quantities. A cartridge case dropped by a
Mahsud raiding gang between Girni and Sarwekai in the summer of 1901
bore the letters F. T. C.and a double-headed eagle, the device of Messrs.
Fracis, Times and Company* ; large quantities of similar cartridges
were found shortly after in the belts of the Darwesh Khel Wazirs of
Wana ; and the Political Officer of Southern Waziristan reported his
ability to purchase Messrs. Fracis, Times and Company's cartridges
locally at the rate of 5,000 a week. On the dead body of Jan
Khan, son of the chief Mahsu Malik, killed in action towards the
end of 1901, was found a revolver with the stamp " Made for Fracis,
Times and Company, London. " During the winter of 1901-1902, the
Powindas migrating into India by the Gumal route deposited, among
others, 31 rifles which appeared to be of
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
origin in the
armoury at Tank, Dera Ismail Khan. In short, it was clearly proved that
arms and ammunition from the Gulf had begun to reach the Indian
frontier ; and the observations in Southern Waziristan in 1901 showed
that the importations were becoming extensive. The Indo-Afghan border
trade was for a time restricted by the strong demand for rifles, and by
the high prices obtained for them in districts nearer to the Gulf ; but,
once the intervening markets had been glutted, the frontier market,
in which rifles bought at Masqat for Rs. 40 or Rs. 50 sold for more
than Rs. 300 each, began to secure an increasing share of the Gulf
imports. This change seems to have come about gradually, and cannot
be assigned to any particular year.
It is uncertain by what routes the rifles and cartridges from the Persian
Gulf first found their way northwards and eastwards to the frontier of
India; and it seems clear that the trade was not, originally, in any sense a
direct one. The disorders that prevailed in Makran during 1897 and in sub
sequent years may have blocked, for a time, the most direct avenue from
Masqat towards the Indian borderland; and the mishap in 1898 to a Pathan
arms caravan travelling northwards from Ormarah, of which mention
*By a peculiar coincidence this cartridge case was obtained and forwarded to Gov
ernment by the present
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
, who was then Political Officer in Southern
W azirist^n.
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This volume is Volume I, Part II (Historical) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.
Part II contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914, 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (pags v-viii), and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (ix-cxxx). These are also found in Volume I, Part IA of the Gazetteer (IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1).
Part II consists of three chapters:
- 'Chapter X. History of ’Arabistān' (pages 1625-1775);
- 'Chapter XI. History of the Persian Coast and Islands' (pages 1776-2149);
- 'Chapter XII. History of Persian Makrān' (pages 2150-2203).
The chapters are followed by nineteen appendices:
- 'Appendix A: Meteorology and Health in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2205-2211);
- 'Appendix B: Geology of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2212-2219);
- 'Appendix C: The Pearl and Mother-of-Pearl Fisheries of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2220-2293);
- 'Appendix D: Date Production and the Date Trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2294-2307);
- 'Appendix E: Fisheries of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2308-2318);
- 'Appendix F: Sailing Craft of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2319-2332);
- 'Appendix G: Transport Animals and Livestock of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2333-2348);
- 'Appendix H: Religions and Sects of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2349-2385);
- 'Appendix I: Western Christianity and Missions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2386-2399);
- 'Appendix J: The Telegraphs of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in their relation to the Telegraph Systems of Persia and Turkey' (pages 2400-2438);
- 'Appendix K: Mail Communications and the Indian Post Office in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2439-2474);
- 'Appendix L: The Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2475-2516);
- 'Appendix M: Epidemics and Sanitary Organization in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2517-2555);
- 'Appendix N: The Arms and Ammunition Traffic in the Gulfs of Persia and ’Omān' (pages 2556-2593);
- 'Appendix O: The Imperial Persian Customs' (pages 2594-2625);
- 'Appendix P: Cruise of His Excellency Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. [1903]' (pages 2626-2662);
- 'Appendix Q: British and Foreign Diplomatic Political; and Consular Representation in the Countries Bordering on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2663-2699);
- 'Appendix R: Book References' (pages 2700-2736)
- 'Appendix S: Explanation of the System of Transliteration' (pages 2737-2741).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (1165 pages)
- Arrangement
Volume I, Part II is arranged into chapters that are sub-divided into numbered periods covering, for example, the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The appendices are sub-divided into lettered subject headings and also contain numbered annexures, as well as charts. Both the chapters and appendices have further subject headings that appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally througout the volume at the bottom of the page which provide further details and references. A 'Detailed Table of Contents' for Part II and the Appendices is on pages cii-cxxx.
- Physical characteristics
The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 879, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 1503.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:130, 1625:2742, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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