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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎1351] (1506/1782)

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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defending the town. Guns were mounted on the walls, and armed Arabs
were brought in from the surrounding country.
Seeing that the rebels were not inclined to submit and that they were
only utilising the delay to strengthen their position, Najib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. obtained
reinforcements from Baghdad and ordered the Army Commandant to
advance to Karbala with one regiment of cavalry, twenty guns, and three
regiments of infantry. SaMullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , with these troops and some
friendly Arabs, arrived before the place on the 19th December 1842. He
pitched his camp on the south-east side of the town outside the date
plantations by which it is surrounded, and was fired on from these, but did
not reply. The Mujtahid Saiyid Kazim and the Zill-us-Sultan then
visited the Commandant in his camp and proposed that the families of the
Yaramaz chiefs Saiyid Ibrahim and Mirza Salih should be delivered up
to him as hostages ; that the Commandant should then withdraw to
Musaiyib with the bulk of his force, leaving 500 men behind outside
Karbala; that this small force, on the arrival of the main body at Musa
iyib, should be admitted into Karbala, while the Yaramaz with their
dependents were allowed to quit the town unmolested; and that, when the
evacuation by the Yaramaz was complete, the troops at Musaiyib should
be at liberty to return to Karbala. SaMullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. seems to have accepted
these conditions and to have sent to Najib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. at Musaiyib informing
him of what had been done, whereupon the people of Karbala ventured
forth from the town and the imported Arabs proceeded to amuse themselves
outside the walls in their usual fashion, with Hosah dances and firing of
guns. On the next day it would seem, being the 21st or 22nd of December,
the Zill-us-Sultan went to the Turkish camp with the family of Saiyid
Ibrahim, Za^frani, and with Mirza Salih in person. The party were well
received by the Turkish Commandant; but presently Sulaiman Mirza,
another Persian refugee prince, arrived from Musaiyib with the news that
Najib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. refused to sanction the retirement of any part of the Turkish
force from before Karbala. Next morning the Commandant found that
Mirza Salih had escaped to the town, that others of the required hostages
were wanting, and that some of those delivered up to him were not the
persons that they had been represented to be. He accordingly sent
Ibrahim Agha, an artillery officer, to Karbala to find out what was going
on there. Crowds of townsmen and Arabs poured out of the date
gardens as this emissary passed, asking him for news, and followed him
to the town gate. While he was still at the gate an alarm was raised by
watchers on the town wall, and it was said that the Turkish troops
were advancing. In reality the Commandant was only improving the
dispositions of his camp j but the rebeiH rushed out in large number

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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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