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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1026] (1181/1782)
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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ing" policy towards Turkeys and, acting'in concert with tlu 1 ^saqit) of
Basrah, he succeeded in procuring the removal of Hamdi Fas ha, the \\ ali
of the day, an honest but unpopular official, and the appointment in
his place in autumn 1899 of Muhsin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, a military officer, who was
prepared to represent Kuwait affairs to the Porte in a new light.
One of the chief dangers which Shaikh Mubarak had at this time
to avoid was arrest while making an official visit to Basrah in
person,—a mark of submission on which the Turkish Government
strongly insisted. Muhsin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
played his part well; and not
only were no further encroachments on the Shaikh's independence
attempted by the Turks for more than a year and a half, but, as
we shall presently see, Mubarak safely paid the required visit to
Turkish territory, received a Turkish official decoration from the
Sultan, and was enabled to harass with impunity the Turkish vassal Ibn-
Rashid of Najd, and even to invade and temporarily occupy a part of hie
principality.
Visit of a Before these occurrences, however, a German Commission visited
Kailway Com- Kuwait in search of a suitable terminus for the projected Baghdad Eail-
miision to way: it was headed by Herr Stemrich, the German Consul-General at
Kuwait,
January Constantinople ; and, but for the Agreement of 1899, concluded chiefly m
view of a similar Russian project, and a warning conveyed to the Shaikh
by the Commander of H.MS. "Melpomene" that he should make
no arrangement with the Commission without the approval of the Gov
ernment of India, the incident might have had results prejudicial to the
position of Great Britain in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. From Mubarak's
account of his interview with the Commission, which took place at
Kuwait on the 19th of January 1900, corroborated as it was by a subse
quent report of the Commission itself, it seems that the Shaikh expressed
himself unfavourably as regards the establishment of a railway terminus
within his jurisdiction, and that he made it clear to the members of
the Commission that the real control of the country rested with
himself and not with the Sultan of Turkey. The Commission apparently
tried to open negotiations with him for the sale of Kadhamah at the
head of K uwait bay and for the lease of the lands surrounding
Kawaikib and Ghadhai,—a scheme involving the acquisition in
all of a plot of about 20 square miles; but their intentions were
frustrated by Mubarak's strict observance of his obligations to the
British Government, in which he was probably fortified by a doubt of
the good faith of the Commission, and by a suspicion that their proposals
might be a skilfully disguised movement on the part of the Turks. At
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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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