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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919' [131v] (269/396)
The record is made up of 1 volume (194 folios). It was created in 1916-1920. 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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28 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
POLITICAL EESIDENCT
there was a certain amount of raiding in the spring, one particularly darincr
raid being effected by Chahhaqis and Paiqalehis early in March between
Masbiz and Khunsarkh on the Kerman-Saidabad section. South Persia Rifle S
cavaby from Kerman under Major Fowle, J.A., performed a remarkable
march in pursuit, reaching Chah Ilaq itself and covering miles in 101
days, but without success. The capture^ and execution at Saidabad in April
of the notorious Muhammad Ismail Beg Nazarbeglu (Baharlu) had a good
moral effect. Above nil, the march of the Shiraz Reinforcement echelons
from the coast to Shiraz by the Tarum-Saidabad and Tarum-Qatru routes in
April and May, and th3 successful operations carried out by them and by the
Isiriz garrison against Kuhistan tribes in May, kept the latter quiet till the
autumn when two or three raids were carried out on the Tarum -Saidabad
Section. The most successful of these was one by a band o f 60 Nazarbegins
who attacked a South Persia Eifles convoy of 70 unloaded camels at Puzeh
Khun at night, panicked the escort of 50 South Peisia Rifles and carried off
all the animals except seven.
At the end of July the 70 horse and 30 foot levies at Baft, who had been
maintained since 191^ by the South
raulatabad-Baft road • t»'u i xi • i* i
J ersia James under their direct control,
were disbanded, the organization of the Saidabad route having rendered their
upkeep an unnecessary expense. Gunj Ali Khan
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of the Afshar, and in
succession to him llojabr-us-Sultaneh were from thenceforward subsidised for
the upkeep of 10 horse and ?0 foot road-guards on the Balt-Daulatabad and
Baft-Saidabad roads. This arrangement appears to have worked satisfactorily
up to the present.
The comparative safety of the Bandar Abbas-Kerman routes was un
fortunately of little use to the Kerman public, owing to the fact that the Base
authorities were obliged to impress for military purposes nearly all the trans
port animals arriving at Bandar Abbas from the middle of March practically
to the end of the year. Transport owners have never liked military employ
ment on the Tarum-Saidabad road, partly because the escorts interfere with
their independence and make them travel much faster than they are accustomed
to, partly because the route is a bad one for grazing and supplies. They
accordingly soon learnt to avoid Bandar Abbas, and by the autumn it was
almost impossible for merchants to get their goods up from Bandar Abbas at
all, even at the excessive rate of
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
100 per 100 Tabrizi mans (roughly
Es. 250 per camel-load). By the beginning of October some 40,000 camel
loads of goods involving a capital of nearly Es, 1-| crores, were lying at
Bandar Abbas ; prices soared in Kerman, Yezd and other up-country centres,
and more than one importing firm was threatened with bankruptcy. Purther
the demand for rupee drafts in India ceased, with the result that the Bank
was unable to collect krans for the supplying of the South Persia Rifles' heavy
requirements. This serious commercial and financial deadlock, which was the
subject of correspondence between His Majesty's Consul, His Majesty's
Legation and the General Staff, Shiraz, has been gradually relieved during
the^ last few weeks (February 11th) by the partial release of transport by the
military authorities at Bandar Abbas, and by the diversion of trade to the
Bushire-Shiraz and Basrah-Baghdad-Kermanshah routes. It is difficult to see
how a breakdown oould have been avoided, for with the total available
transport in the country greatly reduced by the drought of 1916-17, the
Bandar Abbas-Saidabad road could not be expected to bear the strain of acting
at one and the same time as the sole Line of Communications for the forces
in Pars and Kerman provinces, and also as the only channel of trade for
the whole of Southern Persia.
In January the Chabarrahis, Lashanis, Tutakis, Sarchahanis and other
Yezd road. bands resumed their activities on the Yezd
, road, which had been unmolested since Sep-
tember 1917, when a South Persia Eifles column marched through their country
re detachment of South Persian Eifles Cavalry stationed at Anar was unable
Jto cope with tho bands, which often numbered as many as 200, though the
British JN on-Commissioned Officer in command displayed ^reat activity and
recovered much of the loot on more than one occasion. The following month
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The volume includes Administration 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. for the Year 1915 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1916); Administration 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. for the Year 1916 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1917); Administration 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. for the Year 1917 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1919); Administration 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. for the Year 1918 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920); and Administration 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. for the Year 1919 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920). The 1915 and 1919 Reports bear manuscript corrections written in pencil.
The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up 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 provide a wide variety of information, including details of senior British administrative personnel and local officials; descriptions of the various areas and their inhabitants; political, judicial and economic matters; notable events; medical reports; details of climate; communications; the movements of Royal Navy ships; military matters; the slave trade; and arms traffic.
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- 1 volume (194 folios)
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The reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the first folio after the front cover, and continues through to 194 on the last folio before the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The following folio needs to be folded out to be read: f. 36.
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