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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1600] (1755/1782)
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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Effect of
the death of
the Iqbal-ud
Daulah,
1887.
1600
;:2) " on the contrary the acceptance by them of this* mundane
" care and duty formed, in the eyes of many, a lamentable
" defection from the type of character proper to them ;
•3) "according to the general belief, both of them took care that
" if, for the above or other reasons, their receipts in presents
" from the pious suffered diminution, the Oudh money
" passing through their hands should be properly taxed in
<f compensation for it."
In 1883 Colonel Tweedie, on relinquishing charge of 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.
,
recommended to the consideration of Mr. Plowden a statement which
he had received from
Raja
King
Baqir Husain of Faizabad, Oudb, a visitor
to Karbala and Najaf and a worthy, wealthy, and entirely disinter
ested man, in which it was stated that the proceeds of the Bequest
w^ere being misapplied " to the detriment of the right parties entitled
to be benefited and to (? of) the British name ; that the money was
being appropriated mainly to the enrichment of the Mujtahid-Distribu
tors and the support of their relatives and friends, the poor deriving
but little advantage from it ; and that the two Distributors employed
were not Mnjtahids (doctors of theology) but only Tullab (students).
The
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
suggested that lists of truly indigent Indians at the shrines
should be prepared, and that none of those whose names were entered
should receive less than Rs. 2 a month,—the actual rate of distribution
to the poor being then half or quarter of a rupee per mensem.
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-Daulah died in December 1887, his last visit
to Karbala and Najaf having been paid in company with the British
Resident in 1881 ; and his decease w T as followed by that of his trusted
friend, Muhammad Husain Khan, the Indian Distributor and British
Honorary Agent at Kadhimain. The death 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.
, to whom
the existence of the separate Indian I'und—at first on an informal, but
latei on a reguhu and defined basis—and the arrangements for its
working were undoubtedly due, profoundly influenced the course of
Bequest affairs. W hatever may be thought of the propriety of his inter
ference, its results seem to have been on the whole beneficial; and his
disappearance from the scene was followed by a change for the worse in
the attitude, already unsatisfactory, of the Mujtahid-Distributors, who
had been accustomed to defer to his advice, and by a growth of abuses.
The successor of Muhammad Husain Khan "as Indian Distributor
and British Honorary Agent at Kadhimain was his son Agha Muham-
r administration of the Bequest.
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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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