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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1291] (1446/1782)
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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1291
The departure o£ Bonaparte for the East, and designs upon India
which he was supposed to entertain, brought the adequacy of British
representation at Baghdad under review in 1798. A British
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
in charge of a European officer bad been set up at Baghdad in 1765,
but it was abolished again in 1766, and for fifteen years thereafter
Britain remained unrepresented at the headquarters of the Pashaliq. In
1781, as a middle course, a Native
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
was established. At length,
in June 1798, Mr. Harford Jones, who had been at home on leave since
1795, was summoned to the India House in London, and various plans
for counteracting the schemes attributed to Bonaparte were discussed
with him, including one by which he would have been associated with
Commodore Blankett in a mission to the Arab chiefs of the Red Sea
coast; but the issue of the deliberations was that, at his own suggestion,
he was appointed to Baghdad a by his Majesty, and the Secret Com-
mittee of the East India Company, to reside with Suleiman Pacha, in
" quality of
political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, but more particularly for the purpose of
■' prevailing on that almost independent chief to assist the Porte with
" money, in disappointing the views on the East, whatever they might
u be, with which Bonaparte, and the expedition fitted out from
Toulon, had sailed.*" The appointment was made in London on the
5th July 1798, and the new "Resident at the Court of the Pacha of
Baghdadarrived at his destination on the 24-th of August following
and assumed charge of his duties, superseding Mr. Reinaud whom
Air. Manesty, the British Resident at Basrah, had deputed to Baghdad
a short time before as a temporary arrangement.
Joint action by the British and Turkish authorities in the East was
regularised by a treaty of defensive alliance with the Sublime Porte,
concluded by His Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at
Constantinople on the 5th January 1799, of which the immediate object
was the co-operation of British with Turkish troops against the French
army in Egypt.
The existence of a new establishment of equal rank at the head
quarters of the Pashaliq of Baghdad must have detracted considerablv
from the importance of the older
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
at Basrah ; and eventually.
* Vide Sir H. J. Brydge 's Wahauhy, page 16. In a note on page 177 it is further
explained that The intent of this appointment was, in the event of the French
" influence prevailing at Constantinople, to endeavour to keep the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
staunch to
" us ; or if the Porte and ourselves drew together, to make him afford every assistance
" in his power to his Sovereign." (Since the above was written some correspondence
relating to the establishment of the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
has been found by the present
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
at Baghdad: it is printed as Annexure JSo. II to this chapter.)
Establish
ment of a
British Resi
dency at
Baghdad,
1798.
Position of
the Resident
at Basrah,
1798-99.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
- Pages
- 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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