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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎2001] (518/1262)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (1165 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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criminals were privately strangled in the presence of the Shah. In May
1850, almost simultaneously with the rising at Yazd, a more serious
Babi revolt broke out at Zinjan, where a handful of 300 Babx rebels
continued, notwithstanding the execution of the Bab himself, to main*
tain themselves until the end of the year against the forces of the Crown.
Their defence was desperate ; their methods were ferocious ; and thier
punishment was extermination.
The efforts of the Babis culminated, after a period of quiescence
following on the reduction of Zinjan^ in an attempt upon the life of the
Shah ; made on the 15th August 1852, from which it was clear that the prin
ciples of some of the sect had now become actively anarchical. The Shah
escaped with a slight wound from a pistol bullet in the thigh, and of
his four Babi assailants one was killed on the spot and two were cap
tured. About 30 persons held to have been involved were put to death
some of them after horrid tortures ; and a certain amount of sympathy
with the sectaries was awakned by the haste and severity of the Govern
ment measures. A number of the highest officials of the Persian
Government were compelled to take a personal share in the execution of
the condemned Babis, the idea being to distribute responsibility for
the act and the anticipated revenge of the Babi brotherhood over as
large a body as possible of distinguished persons.
The Amir Nizam was followed in the highest office of state by the
Itimad-ud-Dauleh, better known as Mirza Agha Khan, a man of a differ
ent stamp, who did not hesitate to accept the title of Sadr A^zam or
Prime Minister. His policy, in the beginning, was prudent and
reserved ; but his tortuous dealings and anti-foreign sentiments gradu
ally involved Persia in complications of which the final issue was,
as will be explained in another place, the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57.
In 1858 the Shah dismissed Mirza Agha Khan and took upon him
self the general direction of affairs, a charge which he never again,
though he afterwards appointed more than one Sadr A^zam, entirely
resigned into other hands.
More than a decade of Nasir-ud-Din Shah's reign was characterised
% bad harvests and consequent distress in various parts of the country,
f^ich better means of communication would have sufficed, in some
instances, to avert. On the 28th February and 1st March 1861 there
Were ser i 0 us bread riots at Tehran, in the course of which the mayor of
tii 0 city was put to death. In the summer of 1865 there was an emeute,
^ to scarcity, at Shiraz, in which some lives were lost ; and in the
P riI ig of the following year, during a tour of the Sha to the Caspian
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This volume is Volume I, Part II (Historical) 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 II contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914, 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (pags v-viii), and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (ix-cxxx). These are also found in Volume I, Part IA of the Gazetteer (IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1).

Part II consists of three chapters:

  • 'Chapter X. History of ’Arabistān' (pages 1625-1775);
  • 'Chapter XI. History of the Persian Coast and Islands' (pages 1776-2149);
  • 'Chapter XII. History of Persian Makrān' (pages 2150-2203).

The chapters are followed by nineteen appendices:

Extent and format
1 volume (1165 pages)
Arrangement

Volume I, Part II is arranged into chapters that are sub-divided into numbered periods covering, for example, 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 appendices are sub-divided into lettered subject headings and also contain numbered annexures, as well as charts. Both the chapters and appendices have further subject headings that appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally througout the volume at the bottom of the page which provide further details and references. A 'Detailed Table of Contents' for Part II and the Appendices is on pages cii-cxxx.

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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. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 879, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 1503.

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