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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1268] (1423/1782)
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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126S
Accident to
the desert
Mail, 1778.
Murder of
Mr. Hare.
The French
Consulate at
Basrah.
in 1778 it was expected even to fall short of that sum. Mr. Latouche
in view of the exceptional circumstances, requested the Government of
Bombay at the end of 1 778 to be so g-ood as to remit the customs, at the
rate of 3 per cent,, which were levied by the Company at Basrah on
goods privately imported by him. To strengthen his case, he reminded
them that he had to pay an import duty at the rate * of 8 per cent, to
the Persians on all goods brought to Basrah, as well as an export
duty of 6 per cent, to the C ompany in the case of merchandise from
Surat; and he added that, as native merchants were able by some
means to land their goods at Basrah on payment of less than 8
per cent, as customs, they could afford to undersell him in the local
market. Ihe result of this application is not recorded. Towards the
end of the Persian occupation some not unsatisfactory business is said
to have been done at Basrah in imported cloth, but the continued absence
of mam of the merchants and scarcity of specie due to the proceedings
of the Persians prevented large operations.
During the Persian occupation of Basrah the British overland mail
to Aleppo was for a time despatched from Kuwait instead of from Zubair
as formerly. r J he new arrangement was not altogether satisfactory, as
it was not possible to exercise so strict a control over the messengers as
when they were Turkish subjects and began or ended their journeys at
a Turkish town , and the difficulties of the Resident were increased by
unrest which prevailed in the desert at the end of 1778. On one occa-
sion, about December 17 78 or January 1779, the messengers were attack
ed by Bedouins on their way and reported at Baghdad that they had
been lobbed of the mails, of their camels, and even of their clothes; but
a duplicate set of the correspondence, which followed 19 days later,
leached Aleppo in safety; and i<r was stated at Basrah that the lost
packet of originals had meanwhile come into the hands of other Arabs,
who had conveyed it to its destination.
It piobahh at this same period, while the prestige of the Turkish
\ernment with the Arabs was low, that Mr. Hare, an English gentle-
om Bengal, ^as robbed and murdered near Lamlum upon the
Euphrates.
e French Consul at Basrah about this time was a M. Rousseau
m ered chiefly on account of his negligence in not assisting a young
renc ^ o cer, M . Bore] du Bourg, who in travelling to the Kast with
a year and a half ' i I p ^ ^ 8 peV Cent ' is not: clear » f or Karim Khan had,
British i:5over " or no ' '» take Customs from the
1266 ante. " f0rC ' ! 3 Per rent. Sre p.g.
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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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- Title
- '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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