"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٥‎٩‎٣] (١٧٨٢/١٧٤٨)

1593
Navigation Company, which did not cease on the conclusion of a new
contract with the Company in 1904.
Special British Indian interests in Turkish Iraq, 1876 -1905.
oetok
1876-1887.
The powerful personality of the Nawab Iqbal-ud-Doulah of Ondh, Nawab
G.C.S.I., looms through our pages from time to time, in connection
especially with the Oudh Bequest and the British Agencies at Karbala his_affairs,
and Kadhimain ; and a few words may be said in regard to himself and
his personal affairs. His history up to 1866 has been given already in an
earlier section of the present chapter. Two interesting pictures of the
Nawab are given by British travellers of the time and may be quoted
in extenso.
* The Nawab Ikhbal-ood-Dowlab was, some forty years ago, King of the Oodh for
a few days, but his right to the succession bein^ overruled by the British Government,
he left Lucknow and India, and took up his abode at Baghdad. He visited Europe
on two or three occasions, and in London maintained in argument with the India
Office, ineffectually of course, his right to the throne of Oudh. A pension of seven
for eight thousand rupees a month, paid him by the British Government out of the
revenues of the Oudh, forms only a portion of his income, his private property
being considerable. He is a man of strong ^ood sense and active mind ; if he had
remained on the throne of Oudh the misgovernment which furnished Lord Dalhousie
with an excuse for the annexation of that country would most probably never have
existed. The Nawab is commonly spoken of as " the King of Oudh," and he enjoys
great influence, which he turns to the best account. He is regarded as the head of
the large community of Indian Mussulmans settled in Baghdad ; and at Kerbella,
and Najaf, by his tact and personal ascendancy keeps his countrymen out of much
mischief into which they might very easily fall in a country where " moral order ' is
as yet almost unknown, and where Arabs and Persians, and Turks, and Christians,
are all in a state of antagonism. The services rendered by His Highness to the
British Political Agent in controlling and guiding the eight or ten thousand " Hindis "
settled in the vicinity of the holy places, and in keeping the pilgrims from India out
of harm's way, have been cordially acknowledged by the Government of India from
time to time, and recently an addition to his pension has been granted him as a mark
of appreciation. ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية *
+ Bagdad is an abode of political exiles from India, Mussulmans who dislike
living under Christian rule, and who have settled here as the nearest place of refuge
* Geary's Through Asiatic Turkey, Volume I, pages 640-641.
f This seems to bo erroneous : see page (1475) ante.
% Lady Anne Blunt's Bedouins of the Euphrates, Volume I, pages 212-15. The
talented authoress dedicated this book of hers to the Iqbal-ud-Daulah.
,.-v; .,v . ■ .