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'Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1877-78.' [245v] (36/165)
The record is made up of 1 volume (81 folios). It was created in 1878. 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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1G ADMINISTHATION REPORT OF THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
POLITICAL
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 waters it; then to Karzin, and waters it; then to n village named
f “Wadi” in original, which also Sakk. And £the name ol this ri voi h
means “valley”—E. C. It. is referred to Sakk. Then it falls into
the sea. Now there is no river of Fars more fertilizing than this river/’
[ Edit. Be Goeje, Leyden, 1870, jo. 120.]
Comp. ibn-Ilaukal, p. 191.
“And the road from Shiraz to Jennabch ; from Shiraz to Khan-
El-Asad,]; which is on the River El-Sakkan, six farsakhs, and from the
Khan to Dasht-i-Arzan Khan, four farsakhs.”
[Ibidyp. 130.]
These passages leave no doubt as to the identity of the “ Kara-Aghach”
and “ Sakk an,” and I have therefore only to add a remark on the
name “ Sakkan.” Every one who has read old Arabic MSS. knows that
when “ s” is preceded and followed by “ d” “ t” & “ c,” the latter
stroke very easily is left out, the copyist not being over anxious to
make a stroke more or less, especially as the diacritical points are
generally omitted in proper names.
Being acquainted with the old name of the river, “ Sitakan” or
“ Sittakan,” 1 think it would be one of the easiest emendations to
read instead of “ Sakkan” “ Sitakkan”
or, as the Teshdid on the “ k ” is quite
anomalous, “ Sittakan.” This I believe
to be the true form of the name corresponding exactly to the “ Sitto-
gan” of Onesicritus, in the MSS. of Istakhri. The “ t” inadvertently
was dropped by the copyist, but the Teshdid belonging to it was
preserved and transferred to the “k.”
For completeness , sake I may mention that Hammer, and following
him Ritter (Geography of Asia, VIII, p. 763), identities the Sitto-
ganus, for which he reads Sitiogagus with the “ Sitarejan” of the
Arabic geographers. But the “ Sitarejau” (Istakhri has “ Shazkan, ’
Ibn-Haukai “ Shadkan,” evidently a better reading) is, as can easily
be ascertained by the text of these authors, one of the rivers belonging
to the northern parts of Dashtistan.§
* Note— Compare with course of river on sketch map accompanying the Adminis
tration Report for 1875-76. The Arabian
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.
leaves in the lurch just where we most
require information.—E. C. Ross.
J Note. —Khan-el-Asad now Khan-i-Zinyan.—F. C. A.
§ Note.— Not Dashti. These two names are not identical.—F. C. A.
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Administration report of 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. for 1877-78, published by Authority at the Foreign Department Press, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1878. The report is based on reports sent by the Officiating 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross) and the 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. at Muscat (Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles) to the Government of India. The report is preceded by a copy of a letter sent by Ross to Alfred Comyn Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, dated 8 July 1878, which enclosed the submission of the original reports.
The report is organised in a number of sections and subsections, as follows:
Part I: General Report, signed by Ross, and arranged under subheadings as follows: Oman; Arab Coast; Bahrein [Bahrain]; Nejd [Najd]; Province of Fars and the Persian Coast and Islands; Bushire; Coast from Bushire to Lingah [Bandar Lengeh]; Lingah; Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas]; Persian-Baloochistan [Baluchistan] Coast; Bassidore [Bāsaʻīdū]; Establishments; Slave-Trade; Appendices (including meteorological tables, notes on the Kara Aghach River by Dr Friedrich Carl Andreas*, the route from Bushire to Lar and Shiraz, and the route from Lar to Shiraz, the Persian Post Office and Foreign Postage, and tables of Persian money and measurements).
Part II: Report on trade of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1877, signed by Ross and arranged under subheadings, as follows: Effects of late war on the trade; Steam communication; Grain harvest; Scarcity of coin; Opium; Pearl fisheries; Impediments to development of trade in Persia; and appendices (including notes on the pearling industry by Captain Edward Law Durand, notes on date palm cultivation by James Charles Edwards, and 31 tables of trade statistics covering imports/exports from/to the various ports and settlements of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and between the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and India).
Part III: Administration report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat, for the year 1877-78, prepared by Miles and arranged under the following subheadings: Political; Official changes; Slave Traffic.
Part IV: Trade statistics for Muscat, prepared by Miles, and comprising of six tables covering imports, exports, and number and tonnage of vessels entering and leaving the port.
* Folio 246 - a map has been temporarily removed and replaced with a green sheet of paper noting its removal.
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- 1 volume (81 folios)
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The report is arranged into four parts (I-IV).
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- 'Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1877-78.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, 2r:2v, 232r:310r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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