'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎1297] (1452/1782)

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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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a separate ff Civil Surg-eon " was appointed to the Baghdad 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 September 1800 in the person of Dr. James Short of the Bombay
establishment. The desiie of Sulaiman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to have a British
medical man at hand hai been brought forward by the Resident as
an argument in favour of creating the new appointment; but the
as a, after Dr. Short's first arrival, employed him very little, and
the doctor, offended by his neglect, would have refused to attend him
on his death-bed in 1803, if he had not been officially required by the
Resident to do so.
In August 1800, on the application of Mr. Jones, the Baghdad
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 furnished with a native military guard from India,
consisting of a Subadar, a Havildar Custodian; police sergeant; jail or prison guard. , a Naik, and 26 sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. . About
a month later two drummers were added.
iJ h V 0St 0f maintainin g 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 serutinised in Annual oo.t
1801 when it was found that the items of salaries, allowances and rent p BMrah
vro'a m 8 '' a(1 a " 10 ™ tel '• to Es ' 18 ' 8 0( ) per anunm, had increased by 1801,
,,!« t0 ® S ' 15 ' 3 , t2 - 0rdinar y fluctuating contingencies stood, about
, at Rs - 9,276 on an average of years; but by 1801 a flxed annual
contingent grant of only Rs. 5,520 had been substituted by Government.
e cost of carriage of the overland mail was treated as a charge by
itself, and so also was the expenditure in presents to Arab Chiefs, which
was at the rate of about Rs. 16,000 a year.
The French in Turkish 'Iraq, 1789-1808.
f p a£ter the Fre ' lch devolution, Prance was represented
at Baghdad by a « Commissioner for Commercial Relations," in other
Tlil 1 a C , 0n - Ul: and tIiiS 0ffi0e was held ^ Citi2e " Rousseau,
P ■ y the same individual who had been French Consul at Dasrah
neary wenty years earlier. Baghdad was visited in 1796-97 by a
French political niseion, conducted by MM. Bruguiere and Olivier, whose
proceedings are fully described in the chapter on the general historv of
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
On the 8th of October 1798, less than two months after the establish
ment of the 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. at Baghdad, orders were received by the
âsha from Constantinople "to imprison the French Consul, the persons
m his service, and the French subjects residing at Basrah, and to send
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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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Reference: IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1
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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