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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1587] (1742/1782)
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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1587
among all the Tudiaus settled m Karbala not one is to be looked for possessed of the
smallest qualifications to serve the Government there as salaried agent. I knew
Muhammad Taki Khan's predecessor; and unstable as is the present Distributor
the other was even more so. Had it been possible to set up a stronger one out of
existing material, or without bringing this whole subject exhaustively under the
review of Government, Muhammad Taki Khan would not all this time have
been left in oiUcc.
In the same year a case occurred in which the Turkish authorities
absolutely declined to recognise or deal with the Agent at Karbala ;
the occasion was the arrest of three Indians by the Turkish police!
In 1891 Colonel Tweedie further remarked :
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.
Agent at Karbala cum Najaf as (cr) naturally of weak and cir
cuitous character; {b) generally in but feeble health ; (c) an Indian;'^) a h («)
invested with no very definite, or recognised official, status, is unequal to ti task
of influencing two potent Mujtahids or fathers of his religion. I say this noc to
disparage him, Not only do I know of no one better than he, but I know of no one
at all among Indiana domiciled at Karbala fit to fill his very peculiar situation,
supposing him to resign it.
Colonel Tweedie's representations did not, however, result in any
change of system chiefly perhaps iu consequence of the Government
of India's declining, for the time being, to authorise any changes in
the administration of the Oudh Bequest.
In 1892 Colonel Tweedie's successor in the Residentship, Colonel
Mockler, again represented the matter, requesting that an exequatur
should be procured for the Agent at Karbala; and, it having been
explained to His Majesty's Government that the Agent's salarv would,
as heretofore, be paid from the Oudh Bequest, the proposal was adopted.
On the 10th August 1893 the Porte instructed the Wali of Baghdad
to recognise the British Agent at Karbala as a Consular Agent. Muham
mad Taqi Khan had in the meantime been succeeded by his nephew
Agha Ibrahim, a brother of Agha Muhammad, who consequently
became the first British Consular Agent at Karbala. In 1894 the
Wali of Baghdad paid a visit to Karbala, where he treated Agha
Ibrahim—largely, it was thought out of personal considerations—with
marked civility and attention.
After this no change occurred until 1902, when Major New marc b, as
Resident, undertook a radical reform of the Oudh Bequest arrangements.
As mentioned in another place, he abolished the irregular and (by the
Turks) unrecognised
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
at Kadhimain, along with emoluments of
the Agent (as Indian Distributor) under the Oudh Bequest j and, while
he recommended the retention of a British representative at Karbala and
109 k
Appoint
ment of a
British
Consular
Agent ai
Karbala,
1893.
Appointment
of a British
Vice-Consu!
at Karbala
and abolition
of the
Kad bima
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,
1902-03.
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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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- '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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