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‘Administration report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1887-88.’ [6r] (9/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (34 folios). It was created in 1888. 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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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.
and muscat political
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
for 1887-88.
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11. In the month of September, 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 Lingah reported that Haji Ahmed
Khan Sirtip had sent a small party under Shaikh Hasan, the Chief of Kishm, to the island of
Sirri with orders to erect a flagstaff and hoist the Persian flag thereon, and Her Majesty's Ship
Ranger reported that the Persian flag was flying on the island in question.
12. The Islands of Tamb, Sirri and Bu-Musa, situated midway between the Persian and
'Oman Coast, have been for generations hereditary possessions of the Jowasim Arabs, those of
the tribe who settled on the Persian Coast, having always been admitted to share in the rights
attaching to these tribal possessions. The island of Sirri has been hitherto superintended by the
principal Jowasitni Shaikh of Lingah, who has been usually Deputy Governor of that port and
district under the Persian Government.
13. It was always understood that the Jowasimi Shaikhs of Lingah administered the island
of Sirri in virtue of their position as Shaikhs of the Jowasimi tribe, not in consequence of then-
office of Deputy Governor of the Persian district. The hoisting of the Persian flag at Sirri,
therefore, constituted a complete alteration of the status as regards that island, and the Arab
Chief of Shargah lodged a protest and remonstrance against what he considered annexation by
Persia of an Arab posression. The whole question was referred to Her Majesty's Legation at
Teheran and has continued to be the subject of diplomatic correspondence.
3.— EL-BAHRAIN.
14. The Islands of Bahrain did not wholly escape from the disquieting influence at work
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
during the year under review.
15. Owing to the attitude assumed by the Chief of El-Bidaa, Shaikh Jasim bin Muham-
mad bin Thani^ and the virtual encouragement given by him to his turbulent dependents of
El-Katr cases of piracy commenced to occur off that coast in the month of July, chiefly ou
vessels belonging to Bahrain. Simultaneously the Beni Hajir robbers, who have been so long
the pest of the seas and coast adjacent to Bahrain, recommenced their depredations ou Bahrain
vessels in the waters about El-Kateef, within the jurisdiction of the Turkish authorities. For
years bands of Beni Hajir robbers, harbouring chiefly in the districts under Turkish territory,
have preyed on the native craft plying between Bahrain and El-Kateef, occasionally extending
their operations further to the eastward, always hitherto with entire impunity.
« Armati mare exercent, semperque recentes juvant prsedse, et vivere rapto" "armed they
harass the sea, ever delighting in fresh robberies, and living on the spoil."
16. During the past summer the policy at first adopted by Shaikh Jasim encouraged
bands of these marauders to sally out to sea from the K.ati Coast, as well as fiom the recog
nised Turkish territory, and the matter became serious. About half a dozen piracies were
reported off the Katr Coast and as many more in the Turkish waters. The latter cases were
reported to the Turkish authorities through the British representative in
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
.
17. As regards the piracies occurring off El-Katr, it appeared necessary to adopt some
more direct measures in order to check the progress of those disorders. The Chief of Bahrain,
Shaikh Esau bin Ali, in August addressed me a letter complaining of the injuries and losses
suffered by his subjects from these piracies, and begging for protection and enforcement of
security by sea, failing which he asked to be allowed a free hand to avenge himself on the
robbers.
18. In the month of July, during my visit to Muscat and the Batineh Coast, I had deputed
Khan Bahadur A. R. Hakim to El-Bidaa, in Her Majesty' Ship Sphinx, to make certain
inquiries into the conduct o£ Shaikh Jasim, and on my return, having received STr. Hakim's
report, I decided to despatch the First Assistant Resident in 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.
steamer Lawrence
to El-Bidaa, with orders to remove thence all British Indian subjects, and to warn Shaikh
Jasim 1 would hold him responsible for disorders and outrages occurring within, or by persons
issuing from his district.
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Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. and Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (no 245, Foreign Department serial no 20) for the year 1887-88, published by Authority and printed by the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta [Kolkata]. A copy of a letter from Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General for Fars, to Henry Mortimer Durand, Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department), dated 14 June 1888, is included in the report (folio 4), the original of which submitted the report to Government, under the following headings:
Part 1 (General Summary), submitted by Ross (folios 5-11), containing numbered summaries of local political affairs, and incidents or events of particular note for: 1) Muscat state; 2) Oman pirate coast; 3) El-Bahrain (referred to as Bahrain in the text); 4) El-Katr [Qatar]; 5) Nejd, El-Hasa [Al-Hasa]; 6) Fars and the Persian Coast, including Shiraz, Bushire and its districts, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; 7) Persian Arabistan; and 8) Persian Baluchistan. The report also includes summaries for: 9) Climatic observations, recorded by the observatory at Bushire, and 10) British actions against the slave trade. Appendix A contains tabulated meteorological data for the year, supplied by the Bushire observatory.
Part 2 ( Administration Report of the Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the year 1887-88 ), submitted by A. S. Jayakar, Surgeon Major in Charge of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (folios 12-18), containing a summary of affairs at Muscat, under the headings: political affairs, official changes, and slave trade. Appendix A to Part 2 is a sketch of the career of Seyyid Sultan bin Ahmed, the Imam Muscat, written by Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles.
Part 3 ( Report on the trade of South Persia for the year 1887-88 ), submitted by Ross and dated 15 April 1888 (folios 18-30). The report comprises a short summary of the year’s trade, with notes on: exports (opium, tobacco, cereals); imports (Manchester [cotton] goods, sugar, metals and rice); shipping; exchange; custom; and notes supplied by Lieutenant Vaughan on the economic state at Yezd [Yazd], where Ross advocates the establishment of a British agent. Appendix A comprises tabulated data on import, exports and revenue, in the Gulf ports of Bushire, Bandar-e Lengeh, Bandar-e ʻAbbās, Bahrain and the Arab (Oman) coast. An index to the trade tables can be found at folio 20.
Part 4 ( Muscat trade report for the year 1887-88 ), submitted by Jayakar (folios 30-36), comprising a brief summary of the year’s trade at Muscat, and also containing tabulated data on imports and exports at Muscat (listed by commodity), and the nationality and average tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat.
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- 1 volume (34 folios)
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The report is arranged into four numbered parts, with lettered appendices containing further reports and statistical data coming after each part. The General Summary is further organised into numbered sections, and further divided into paragraphs which are also numbered, from 1 to 99.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which 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. It begins on the first folio, on number 3, and ends on the last folio, on number 36.
Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
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- IOR/V/23/53, No 245
- Title
- ‘Administration report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1887-88.’
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- front, front-i, 3r:36v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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