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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1349] (1504/1782)
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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1349
The town of Karbala was in 1842, and had then been for some twenty Rebellion at
years, a self-governing semi-alien republic, exempt, but for the payment s^ttion
( 'f an unceitain tribute,! from the authority of the representatives of of the same,
the Porte. Three-fourths of the inhabitants were Persians or of Persian nLS™?
extraction. The recent history of the place was not to its credit as 1842 -18i3 t
a Turkish town. Two or three Governors appointed by the Pashas
of -Baghdad had been murdered at their post. In 1831, or earlier,
an attempt was made by Dawud
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to enforce his authority over
Karbala; but it ended, after an eleven months' siege of the town, in
a mere promise by the inhabitants to pay annual revenue. 'AH Eiza
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
the immediate successor of Dawud
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, was denied entrance into Kar
bala, even as a pilgiim; and, after obtaining a money payment and the
acceptance as titular governor of his nominee Saiyid Wahhab, a Karbalai
of good family, he seems to have acquiesced in its virtual independence.
In the interior of the town an extraordinary state of affairs prevailed.
The government was really in the hands of some two or three thousand
tYaiamaz oi good-for-nothings 3> as they were called, recruited from
among the criminals and broken men of all Turkish 'Iraq and Persia, who
subsisted upon the other inhabitants and upon pilgrims. The Yaramaz,
who always went armed, followed different self-constituted chiefs ; much
the most powerful of these in 1843 was Saiyid Ibrahim, Za'fram,
a Perso-Arab; and next to him were Mirza Salih and Muhammad
All Khan, whose partisans were mostly Persians. Among the Yaramaz
themselves quarrels and bloodshed were rife ; the respectable public lived
in terror of them j and no resident or pilgrim was safe from violence until
he had placed himself under the protection of one of their factions,
— a protection which, needless to say, was not extended to him gratui
tously. Colonel Taylor, the British
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.
at Baghdad, de
scribed the situation as follows':—
The poR'er of government was in tlie hands of a constantly renewed! band of
malefactors, ruined outlaws and dishonest runaways from|every corner and tribe of the
Pachalic; even the Turkish .soldiers and lower employes flying from the fear of
merited punishment, debtors from their creditors, public delinquents from the just
severity of the law, were all welcomed, protected, employed in arms, and denied to all
the reclamations of the Turks.
* This massacre is remembered at Karbala by Persians as the " Gharati " or " Plunder-
ln 5 by Arab8 a3 the "^aggah " or « Stroke." The Muhammadan year was 1258, and the
phrase " Ghadir Dam " ( pool of blood), of which the letters yield that numerical value,
is also used to denote it.
tYarama^ ia a Turkish word meaning " it is worthless." Though a verbal form it is
used a-so as an adjective meaning « evil" (man), " naughty " (child), etc.
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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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