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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎436] (579/1782)

The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. 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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showed every consideration for the interests of merchants, whether
natives or strangers. The import duties were not heavy, amounting to
6 or 6^ per cent, only, ad valorem, on merchandise of all kinds; and the
custom of buying and selling for cash, which prevailed at Masqat,
commended itself to European traders and was in agreeable contrast
with commercial usage at some other ports in the Gulf. In the last
decade of the 18th century the proportion of the trade of the Persian
Gulf that passed through Masqat was about five-eighths of the whole
or one crore Equivalent to ten million, or one hundred lakhs. Used especially in connection with money (rupees). of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. per annum ; and almost every line of business there
was represented. The principal exports to India, as also to Batavia and
Mauritius, were specie, pearls, sulphur, rocksalt, copper, and arsenic;
those to the ports of the Red Sea were Basrah dates, pearls, Indian cloth
goods and spices ; and those to places in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. were Yaman
coffee and European and Indian stuffs. The imports by European
vessels from India and elsewhere were chiefly piece-goods, Indian cloth
goods, sugar, spices, rice, turmeric, indigo, iron, steel, tin, lead, red lead,
small cannon, cannon balls, and some coarse firearms, the last three of
these articles being mainly supplied by the French. The leading import
from the Red Sea was one of coffee, representing, it was supposed, half
the entire produce of Yaman, and fully providing the countries of the
Middle East as well as, to some extent, Russia, Germany and other
European States.
It is not perhaps wonderful that, in these circumstances, Saiyid Sultan
should have claimed an exclusive right to protect navigation in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and should have wished for this purpose to make a preli-
minary visit to Masqat obligatory on all vessels proceeding up the Gulf:
the difficulties with the British Government and with the 'Atbi rulers
of Bahi ain to which these pretensions gave rise have been noticed above
in connection with political affairs. It was also the Saiyid's ambition
to make Masqat the sole distributing centre of goods from abroad
destined for sale on the western side of the Gulf; but the 'Utub, who
were the most enterprising merchants in the Gulf and who had no love for
Masqat, preferred after the first to begin and end their trading voyages
at Basrah,-a circumstance which secured to that port a good share of
the dhect wholesale trade with India and other foreign countries.
Eventually Saiyid Sultan found it to his advantage to enter into close
commercial relations with the Basrah authorities; and thereafter,
hy mutual arrangement, goods from either port were admitted into
the other on payment of a reduced import duty of 3 per cent, ad
valorem,

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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) 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 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .

Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:

  • 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
  • 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
  • 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
  • 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
  • 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
  • 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
  • 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
  • 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
  • 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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2 volumes (1624 pages)
Arrangement

Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to 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 annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.

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Foliation: 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. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:

  • Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
  • Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎436] (579/1782), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023575943.0x0000b4> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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