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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1593] (1748/1782)
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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1593
Navigation Company, which did not cease on the conclusion of a new
contract with the Company in 1904.
Special British Indian interests in Turkish Iraq, 1876 -1905.
oetok
1876-1887.
The powerful personality of the
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Iqbal-ud-Doulah of Ondh,
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
G.C.S.I., looms through our pages from time to time, in connection
especially with the Oudh Bequest and the British Agencies at Karbala his_affairs,
and Kadhimain ; and a few words may be said in regard to himself and
his personal affairs. His history up to 1866 has been given already in an
earlier section of the present chapter. Two interesting pictures of the
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
are given by British travellers of the time and may be quoted
in extenso.
* The
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Ikhbal-ood-Dowlab was, some forty years ago, King of the Oodh for
a few days, but his right to the succession bein^ overruled by the British Government,
he left Lucknow and India, and took up his abode at Baghdad. He visited Europe
on two or three occasions, and in London maintained in argument with the India
Office, ineffectually of course, his right to the throne of Oudh. A pension of seven
for eight thousand
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
a month, paid him by the British Government out of the
revenues of the Oudh, forms only a portion of his income, his private property
being considerable. He is a man of strong ^ood sense and active mind ; if he had
remained on the throne of Oudh the misgovernment which furnished Lord Dalhousie
with an excuse for the annexation of that country would most probably never have
existed. The
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
is commonly spoken of as " the King of Oudh," and he enjoys
great influence, which he turns to the best account. He is regarded as the head of
the large community of Indian Mussulmans settled in Baghdad ; and at Kerbella,
and Najaf, by his tact and personal ascendancy keeps his countrymen out of much
mischief into which they might very easily fall in a country where " moral order ' is
as yet almost unknown, and where Arabs and Persians, and Turks, and Christians,
are all in a state of antagonism. The services rendered by His Highness to 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 controlling and guiding the eight or ten thousand " Hindis "
settled in the vicinity of the holy places, and in keeping the pilgrims from India out
of harm's way, have been cordially acknowledged by the Government of India from
time to time, and recently an addition to his pension has been granted him as a mark
of appreciation. *****
+ Bagdad is an abode of political exiles from India, Mussulmans who dislike
living under Christian rule, and who have settled here as the nearest place of refuge
* Geary's Through Asiatic Turkey, Volume I, pages 640-641.
f This seems to bo erroneous : see page (1475) ante.
% Lady Anne Blunt's Bedouins of the Euphrates, Volume I, pages 212-15. The
talented authoress dedicated this book of hers to the Iqbal-ud-Daulah.
,.-v; .,v . ■ .
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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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