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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [742] (885/1782)
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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742
General
Telations.
places after mutual consultation informed the Resident; in reply to a
communication on the subject, that they could not compel their subjects
to place themselves under an emblem so closely identified with Qasimi
traditions and Ghafiri principles. For various reasons it wap considered
expedient not to press the matter at the time.
Apart altog-ether from the question of specific engagements and
their results, the period now under consideration was on the whole an
auspicious one in the history of British relations with Trucial ; ()mau.
For three years, ending in 1899, no Resident visited Trucial 'Oman
in person; but, in the years following, numerous tours along the coast
were made by Colonel M. J. Meade, Colonel C. A. Kemball and Major
P. Z. Cox, the successive Residents, and the foundations of a more
regular and direct intercourse were laid. In these circumstances it
became possible for British officers to pay occasional visits to the
interior; and Major Cox, who, under the auspices of the Shaikh
of Abu Dhabi, had travelled by way of Baraimi from Abu Dhabi to
Masqat in 1902, was able in 1905 to explore the unknown country between
Ras-al-Khaimah and Baraimi and to return to the coast at Sohar.
In 1902, the idea of a formal British protectorate over Trucial
'Oman having been mooted, a close examination was made of the
existing system, which was in the end declared to be perfectly satisfactory.
It was reported by Colonel Kemball, in this connection, that new
chiefs on their succession now generally sought to be recognised by
the British Government, and that his advice, though not authoritatively
given, was generally obeyed and even welcomed in internal affairs.
In the same year the general attitude of the Shaikhs towards the
British power was shown by their observance of the 26th of June as a
public holiday in honour of the Coronation of King Edward; and the
tisit of Lord Curzon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to the
Trivial Coast, where, as elsewhere described, he held a
Darbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
at sea off
Sharjah on the 21st of November 1903, was a further proof of the
confidence and harmony that had come to prevail. At the same
time it should be understood that the Shaikhs of
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
were
still unprogressive, ignorant, and prone to childish suspicions. Ihe
failure of the Hinawi Shaikhs of Abu Dhabi and Dibai to enforce on
their subjects the use of the Trucial flag has already been mentioned;
and other symptoms of a like nature appeared, in 1906, in the unwilling
ness of the Shaikhs to supply the Resident with genealogical tables of
their families, in the reluctance of the Shaikh of Dibai to agree to the
establishment of a British Indian post office at his capital, and in ohjec-
.■feit,
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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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- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
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- 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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