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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [858] (1013/1782)
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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858
Rapproche
ment between
the Wahhabis
and the
TJtub, 1836.
Internal
affairs of
Bahrain,
183(5-38.
committing' some irregularities at sea tor which he ieadil\ aftouled satis
faction on its being" demanded by the British political authoiities, made
his way from Qatar to Masqat with the avowed intention of obtaining
support against his father from ^aiyid Sa id. The latter, however,
instead of complying with the wishes of Ahmad, sent his own son fSaiyid
Hilal to compose the differences among the ,11 Khalifah chiefs ; and an
agreement, more fully noticed in the history of Qatar,* was arranged by
his efforts; but it was almost immediately violated by the partisans of
Shaikh 'Abdullah, who induced the Al Hu Kuwarah to attack the inhabi
tants of Huwailah,—an act for which the Shaikh refused to make any re
paration. This last affair led to the secession of J Isa-biii-Tarif, the principal
man of Huwailah, who at tirst took refuge with the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi
in Trucial 'Oman, and whose later proceedings will claim notice further on.
About the middle of the year 1886 Shaikh 'Abdullah, alarmed by
eymptoms of an intention on the part of the Government of Shiraz to
revise, possibly with support from the Saiyid of 'Oman, the Persian
claim to sovereignty over Bahrain, took steps tor a reconciliation with the
Wahhabi Amir. Faisal-bin-Turki, to whose subjects in Hasa much
inconvenience had been caused by the Bahraini blockade of the Hasa
coast, and whom the Egyptians had now begun to press hard upon his
western frontier, received the overtures favourably, and a settlement was
speedily arranged. The Shaikh undertook to pay a nominal tribute of
$2,000 a year to the Amir ; the Amir in return promised to supply troops
for the defence of Bahrain against attacks from without, and to refrain
fiom calling on the Shaikh for marine transport in case of his deciding
on an expedition against Masqat by sea ; and intercourse between
Bahrain and the ports of Qatif and 'Oqair was re -opened.
Meanwhile, however, the lot of the Shaikh's subjects in Bahrain was
growing, from day to day, less endurable ; and the islands were being
rapidly depopulated by emigration. The towns were in a state of
mm and decay, and house rents had fallen to one-eighth of what thev had
been only a few years before. Six sons of the Shaikh pretended to
exercise separate and independent power, and their attention was chief!v
devoted to extracting money from merchants and other men of means.
The ordinary subject in Bahrain had no acknowledged rights; his
domestic animals, even, were frequently seized on pretext of corvee and
were not returned. The result was a general exodus of the inhabitants
to every quarter of the Persian Gu^f.
Ftde page 794 ante
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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)
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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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- 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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