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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1143] (1266/1782)
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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The failure of this expedition proved a serious matter or some of
those who had engaged in it, especially for the Shaikh of Kuwait and for
those among the inhabitants of Qasim who had taken his part. On some
of the latter Ibn-Rashid took summary vengeance; but the partial success
of the hostile combination had greatly alarmed him; and about the end
of May, through an agent at Basrah, he made overtures, which met with
no encouragement, to obtain the protection of the British Government.
The only outsiders interested in the situation that had arisen were the
Turkish Government, who were anxious to acquire influence over the
Shaikh of Kuwait; and they immediately deputed the Mush I r of their 6th
Army Corps from Baghdad to Basrah, where he arrived about the beginning
of May and remained for several months. The task of this high officer
was to arrange a reconciliation among the principal disputants, and
this he proceeded to attempt by opening a correspondence with each; but
it is not clear that he met with a favourable response from any one of them
except Ibn-Eashid. In August the Turks, who now seemed to be drifting
into a pronounced partisanship of Ibn-Rashid, began to concentrate troops
upon the Euphrates ; and in September 1901, on raids being made by
Ibn-Rashid into Kuwait territory, a panic arose in the town and its
neighbourhood, and preparations were made by the British naval authori*
ties for assisting the Shaikh in case an emergency should arise. In Nov
ember and December 1901, Ibn-Rashid being then at Safwiln, a place upoii
the Kuwait border not far from Basrah, strenuous efforts were made by the
Turkish authorities at Basrah to induce the Shaikh to submit to the Porte
and even to admit a Turkish garrison to his capital; but they w^ere
foiled by the decided attitude of the senior British naval officer at Kuwait.
A crisis followed which is described in the history of Kuwait; but it
passed over harmlessly in consequence, it is probable, of British naval pre
parations for the defence of Kuwait; and the Shammar Amir moved off,
slowly and reluctantly, to the wells of Lainah on the eastern border of his
own dominions.
At this juncture the cause of Ibn-Sa'ud suddenly began Ibo make pro
gress in the south. About the 15th of January 1902 ^Abdul 'Aziz-bin-
'Abdur Rahman made a sudden dash from the side of Hasa, where he had
for some time been engaged in collecting adherents, and recovered Riyadh
for his father. He entered the town by night, accompanied at first by eight
picked men; later he was joined within the walls by the rest of his party,
who only numbered 80 all told ; and with this force he surprised and slew
the Shammar governor and took possesBjon of Riyadh, to the general
satisfaction of the inhabitants. Ibn-Rashld's garrisons were then expelled
Consequence
of the expedi
tion, IfeOL-
11)02.
Recovery bf
Riyadh by
the Wahlia
bis, January
1902.
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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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