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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1611] (1766/1782)
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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individual well acquainted with the facts, Saiyid Hasan Hakimzadah,
and was corroborated by information from other sources : —
The late and present distributors at Karbala used to put down in the accounts
fictitious names and take the money themselves. * * * They do it still onlv
more so. They enter the names of their children, servants, negroes and others as
receiving certain amounts, but|these amounts are pocketed by the distributor. This is
still the practice. Another practice of the distributor is to enter the names of really
poor persons as receiving (e. g.) Rs, 10 per mensem, but the poor man really only gets
one rupee and the distributor keeps the balance. The poor man is really paid one
rupee for his signature and is told that if he discloses the fact, his name will be
struck out altogether.
1 be staff under the Indian Distributor at Kadhimain now consisted
of nine persons, that of the Indian Distributor at Karbala of thirteen, not
counting servants; the former official now paid himself at the rate of
over Rs. 300, the latter at the rate of over Rs. 290 a month; and Agha
Hasan, a brother oi Agha Muhammad, had slipped into the position
of " Assistant Distributor" at Kadhimain on a salary of more than
Rs, of 1 per mensem. Each of the Indian Distributors, who were also
Agents of the British
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.
at Baghdad, had surrounded himself
with u a little court/ in which a place was found even for salaried
Medical Attendants and, when the Agent at Karbala went to Najaf
to superintend the proceedings of the Mujtahid Distributor there, his
journey was a a kind of royal progress debited of course to the Oudh
Bequest. The supervision exercised by the Karbala Agent over the
Mujtahid Distributors was, moreover, a farce : he admitted to Major
Newmarch a without any apparent sense of shame, that he did not super-
11 vise the distribution at all, that he was never present at it, but left it
" all in the hands of one of his
Munshis
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
, who was himself a stipendiarv
"of this trust fund." " Muhammad Ibrahim Khan had signed his name
"in English on every page of the distribution account, and when 1
"asked him what this meant, he frankly admitted that it meant nothing
"that his signatures were put on each page of the account several
" days after the distribution, at which he was never present, had been
" completed.The superintendence of the Kadhimain distribution by
Mr. Marine, 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.
Dragoman, was found to have been equally
futile and perfunctory.
Major Newmarch immediately grappled with the abuses described
above and removed them in so far as it was in his power to do so. The
separate Indian Fund having been already condemned by the Govern
ment of India as an irregularity, Major Newmarch reduced the portion
of it devoted to Kadhimain from about Rs. 1,800 to Rs. 800 a month,
Preliminary
reforras by
Major New-
march, 1902.
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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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