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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1037] (1192/1782)
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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of the town, but was driven back by Shaikh Mubarak^s men upon
Hafar; and the Shaikh himself then moved to Jahrah, where he
began to collect a force for purposes of defence, or possibly for offensive
action. Fears having been expressed by the Turkish authorities that the
concentration at Jahrah portended an attack upon Zubair, the Secretary of
State requested that the Shaikh might be warned, as before, to avoid
measures likely to involve him in difficulties in Central Arabia or with
the Turkish Government; but these instructions had been anticipated by
Colonel Kemball, the British Resident, who on the 18th of January 1903
had a long and friendly interview with the Shaikh at Kuwait and im
pressed on him the advisability of abstaining from action against Ibn-
Rashid, especially as the power of that chief was now, according to
Mubarak's own admission, on the wane. After this, at the beginning of
March 190S, the Wahhabi Amir, accompanied by his brother Muham
mad, visited Kuwait to confer with Mubarak, whose son Jabir was still
at Jahrali, holding that place with an armed force. This was the end ol
the alarms caused at Kuwait by Ibn-Rashid.
In these improved circumstances the visit of the Russian cruiser
" Askold" to Kuwait on the 14th of December 1902 and the joint visit
of the French cruiser " rnfernet" and the Russian cruiser " Boyarin,"
which lasted from the 4th to the 8th of March 1903, caused no
anxiety in regard to the local situation. On the latter occasion, how
ever, an interview at which Central Arabian affairs were discussed took
place between the Russian Consul-General from Bushehr and 'Abdul
'Aziz, son of Ibn-Sa'ud, who happened to be present in Kuwait.
A visit paid to Kuwait by His Excellency Lord Curzon, Viceroy and
Governor-General of India, on the 28th and 29th of November 1903,
which is described fully in another place, marked the consolidation of
British influence in the principality and placed in a clear light the Shaikh's
cordial relations with the British Government and his dependence upon
the British power ; indeed the Shaikh, on receiving a presentation sword
from the hands of the Viceroy, spontaneously described himself as a
" military officer of the British Empire/'' The ovation which Lord
Curzon received on landing seemed to bear witness to the popularity of
British connection ; and the impression produced on the minds of the
people and their chief by the sight of the East India Squadron must be
reckoned among the important political results of His Excellency's tour
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. Shaikh Mubarak was shown over the flagship
a Hyacinth"" and was much interested by what he saw, this being
the first time that he had* set foot on the deck of a man-of-war. At a
Visits of
EoBsian and
French war
vessels to
Kuwait,
1902-03.
Visit of Lord
Curzon to
Kuwait,
November
1903.
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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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- '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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