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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [66] (209/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. 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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66
Predomi
nance of
Dutch over
English
trade, lC5d-
81.
Hostilities
between the
Dutch and
the Persians
1684.
Dutch intri
gues against
the English,
1686.
Residence of
Dr. E.
Kaempfer
English name; indeed the crews on both sides appear to have been the worse
of liquor. So completely was the Gulf in the hands of the Dutch after
this, that the Company's Agent at Basrah was ordered to remove to a
place of greater safety, and it was thought that it might be necessary to
send silk purchased in Persia to Europe by way of Isfahan. News of
peace, however, at length brought this critical state of affairs to an end.
During the remaining portion of this period, as may have been
gathered from facts already mentioned, the power and activity
of the Dutch in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
continued to be a source of disquiet
to the East India Company; and the proposal to form an English
station at Masqat in 1659 was made partly with the object of
counteracting their influence. In 1664 the Dutch seem to have had
the advantage in trade at Bandar 'Abbas, and were now accustomed
to send three or four large and well-stocked ships there every
year, " whicii makes; them esteemed, but wee a despised people/' ^ hen
Dr. John Fryer, F.R.S., vioited Bandar 'Abbas in 1677, he found the
Hollanders Absolute in the Spice Trade," and so strong was their mono
poly that he seems to have credited a report that on one occasion they
deliberately burned four ship-loads of their own spices in order to oblige
the Persian merchants to accept rates for the other two; the Dutch, before
this, also dealt largely in sugar and copper ; and their exports were esti
mated by the worthy doctor to amount to "Fifty thousand Thomands worth
of Velvets, Silk, Raw and Wrought, with Rich Carpets besides many
Tunn of Gold and Silver, Yearly." In 1682 the Dutch etill sent two
large ships annually to Bandar 'Abbas, and the contrast between these
and the vessels supplying the English
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
was as yet to the entire
disadvantage of the latter.
Disagreements between the Dutch and the Persians from time to time
occurred, and, as we have already seen, a blockade of Bandar 'Abbas was
undertaken by the Dutch in 1684. The Court of the East India Company
censured their Agents in Persia for not having given them immediate
notice of these hostilities and for having neglected " to let out the
Company's ships on freight, during this war, which would have yielded
considerable profit."
In 1686 the Dutch were labouring to alienate the Persian Court from
the English, but their machinations were defeated by the Company 's
interpreter, an Armenian, at Isfahan.
In November 1685 the Westphalian traveller Dr. E. Kaempfer, who
had come to Persia in 1684 as Secretary of a Swedish Embassy to the
Persian Court, having accepted the post of Chief Surgeon to the Dutch
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) 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 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
- Arrangement
Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to 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 annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: 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. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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