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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1296] (1451/1782)
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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matter with charaoteristic exuberance, writing as follows to the Court
of Directors :—
If in the hour of your severity, supported by conscious rectitude and actuated by
a laudable resolution to assert my honor, I ventured with independeat spirit to
address you in manly, free and animated language, I now, rejoicing in jour favor,
solicit your favorable acceptance of those calm and harmonized assurances of uniform
devotion to the service and interests of my Hon'ble employers, which a mind restored
to happiness, and reinvigorafced by the enjoyment of returning honor and credit,
feels it a pleasant duty to offer. The Hon'ble Company know me well, and they
shall find me, if my abilities equal my integrity, and my constitution enables me to
prosecute my riewa and wishes, a servant worthy of their applause, attention and
support.
British official correspondence continued to be forwarded regularly
across the desert between the Basrah
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.
and the Aleppo Con
sulate ; and, during the wars with France, which began during- the
period, this overland route, owing to its directness and its security from
the interference of European nations, possessed a higher value than at
any time before or after. While 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.
was located at
Kuwait there was tampering, * at times, with the mails by Wahhahis
or under Wahhabi instigation j but the service was never seriously
interrupted. In 1798 the Resident felt some anxiety in regard to the
effect which the Turkish expedition against the Wahhabis, then about
to be undertaken, might produce; but his influence seems to have
proved, as he himself anticipated that it might, a sufficient protection
to the carriers whom he employed. The news of the battle of the Nile
reached India by way of Basrah ; and in 1801 the Resident at Basrah,
Mr. Manesty, received the thanks of the Government of India for
having maintained rapid communication between them and the British
forces in Egypt.
The establishment in 1798 of a
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 Baghdad, independent
of that at Basrah, has been mentioned already, with the considerations
that led to it, as among the important facts of the British connection
with Turkish ^Iraq at this time.
In 1800 Mr. Jones, the Resident at Baghdad, fell ill; and as
Mr, Manesty, the Resident at Basrah, declined to let the Basrah
Surgeon go to bis assistance, Mr. Jones was obliged to come all
the way to Basrah for treatment. On Mr. Jones representing to
* Ihere is some discrepancy, in regard to the immunity of the mails from inter-
farence, between the account given by Sir H. J. Brydges (Mr. Jones) in his Wahauly
(pages 15—16) and that of Mr. Beinaud as reported in von Zach's Monatliche
Correspondenz for July to December 1806 (pages 234—235). See also the footnote
OB page 1005 of this volume in tho history of Kuwait.
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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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- Title
- '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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