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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1596] (1751/1782)
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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1596
unnecessarj to enter at length here on its provisions. Bripflv
v ) it s6gnit'(i
to devote nearly all the property of which he died possessed to the i
keep of his tomb at Kadhmain, and of the house containing it for . ^
and it purported to constitute the British Resident at Baghdad nr '
of a trust fund into which the bulk of the estate was to he formed f
the purpose just mentioned. In the management of the tru t
Muhammad Husain Khiin, British Agent at Kadhimain ad
Muhammad Taqi Khan, British Agent at Karbala, and other' were
apparently to be associated with the Resident.
The Government of India were anxious to respect, in so far
possible, the wishes of the late
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
; but the will bristled with
difficulties which only a court of law, upon proper proceedings beL
taken, could have resolved. Under Muhammadan law the "deceased
was not competent to dispose by will as he had done, of more than one-
third of his estate; and some of the subsidiary dispositions which he
made were in themselves legally invalid. It was not clear, moreover,
that the Resident was actually appointed executor; and if it were held
that he was, the directions in this respect were so worded that thev
could only apply to the Resident holding office at the time 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.
's death, in his personal capacity. These serious difficulties apart
the Government of India thought it undesirable that a British official
in a foreign country should be made responsible for the management of
a trust such as that contemplated in the will; and they accordingly
instructed the Resident not to take upon himself the obligation.
Interim charge of the estate was assumed, however, bv the KesideDt
in his character of Consul-General; and a receiver was appointed for
its administration. The Turkish authorities evinced much interest in
the disposal of the estate and a strong desire to take charge of the
immoveable portion of it through the Turkish Land Records Department,
which provoked from Colonel Tweedie, the Resident, a remark that,'
"if the heirs of the late
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
once let his property or its money
I proceeds l )ass out of British ^to Osmanli custody, they may consider it
^otie from them foi evei, and as little worth going to law about as if it
" were situated in the moon.-"
^ In 1889 a suit for invalidation of the will was brought in the High
Court of Calcutta, the plaintiffs being nine 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.
's next-of-kin,
the defendants the British Government and the native trustees
mentioned in the document itself. In 1890, an application for probate
t e will was filed in His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Consular
Couit at Constantinople by the native trustees in question, and was
j^anuna
ilk^ 1
la
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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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- '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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