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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1405] (1560/1782)
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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the scope o1 our history, and here it will be sufficient merely to mention
the two expeditions of Mr. (afterwards Sir A. H.) Layard to Assyria and
Babylon in 1845-47 and 1849-50^ which proved so rich in results; to the
work of Mr. W. K. Loftus at Nifar, Warkah and Muqaiyar in 1849-50 ;
and to the operations of Major (afterwards Sir H. C.) Rawlinson at
vaiious places during his tenure of the Baghdad Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
from
1843 to 1855. These excavators gave an immense extension to the work
so well initiated by the precocious but unfortunate Rich during his term
of office as Resident at Baghdad from 1808 to 1821.
After the introduction of regular British steam navigation on the
Tigris the British Horse Post between Baghdad and Basrah was abolished.
It existed, however, until September 1841, and seems to have been both
efficient and safe. Letters were frequently conveyed between Basrah and
Baghdad in live days, or about the same time as is now taken by the
British mail steamers; and the British mail was so much respected by the
Ara)s as to confer a certain degree of protection on persons who travelled
witl it. A British Dromedary Mail via Damascus continued to exist ;
and m 1844, 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.
in Turkish 'Iraq was authorised
to l<vy informal " postage " on articles sent by it by private individuals.
At ihe same time, to meet a deficit in the revenue from postage," the
Government of India made a grant of Us. 200 a month for the'main-
ten mce of the service.
[f some of the British officers at this time employed in Mesopotamia
sewetly looked forward to a day when that province should have become a
British possession, the fact need cause no astonishment. Turko-Persian
frontier relations were supervised by the British representative at
Baghdad; British local interests were daily increasing ; and nearly every
thing that was done for the improvement of the country, whether in
steam navigation, land and river surveys, postal communication or trade,
was due to British foresight and hard work.
The Turkish provincial administration, on the other hand, as oppressive
and corrupt as it was inefficient, seemed likely ere long to achieve its own
ruin; and its hostility to all foreigners, vented in obstruction and annoy
ance, must have disposed such foreign representatives as had to deal with
it to desire its downfall. Of his later relations with Najib
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Maior
Rawlinson wrote in 1848 to the British Ambassador at Constantinople:
Journal of the Eojal Geographical Society ; and a number of articles bv Rawlinson
m the Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society, Royal Geographical Society, and Bombay
Branch of the Eoyal Asiatic Society. An excellent general resume will be found in
H. \ . Huprecht's Explorations in Bible Lands during the Nineteenth Century,
The British
Dromedary
Mail, 1839-
61.
Policy of the
local British
officers in
Turkish
^Iraq, 1839-
61.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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