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'Historical Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928' [‎21r] (48/188)

The record is made up of 1 volume (90 folios). It was created in 1928. 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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Political Control in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
{Communicated hy India Ojjice and revised to 5t1i October 1928.)
Arrangements prior to 1921.
The first association of His Majesty's Government with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
is the establishment by the East India Compan} 7 , in 1616, of the factory An East India Company trading post. at Lor. i, 137; n, 1779.
Jashk; and from that date until a very recent period the local interests of
His Majesty's Government are substantially those of, or in the hands of, the
Company and its agents. The date from which those agents can properly
be spoken of as exercising political control is difficult to fix precisely: but
it is not unreasonable to select, in an unbroken occupation of stations in the
Gulf from 1616 onwards, the year 1763, when British headquarters were
moved from Bunder Abbas to Basra and the Bushire 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. was established.
During the century and a half between that date and 1921, political control
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. was exercised (with considerable intervals ending in 1^.1,188,220,26.1,1^.
1873 during which responsibility rested with the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. )
by the Government of India on behalf of His Majesty's Government; and
from 1824 onwards that control was concentrated in the hands of an officer Lor., 1, 218.
in Indian Government service known as the 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. , who since 1878 held in addition His Majesty's Commission as Lor., n, p. 2102.
Consul-General for the provinces of Pars, Khuzistan and Laristan, and the
district of Lingah, and for the coasts and islands of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. being
within the dominions of Persia. This official qua 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. was
under the Indian Government, but Consul-General under the loreign
Office. The cost of his establishment was divided between the British and
Indian Exchequers, and his headquarters were at Bushire. His judicial
powers and extra-territorial jurisdiction as Consul-General were and are Lor. 11,2102.
exercised by virtue of the Persian Coast and Islands Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , first
approved by Her Majesty in Council in 1889, and since that date
substantially modified from time to time.
2. Subordinate to the Resident in his political capacity, for which he was,
prior to the War, solely responsible to the Government of India, were the
representatives of the Indian Government (officers of the Indian Political * (Algo ll0lding H>M .
Department) in Muscat,' 1 ' the Trucial States A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Bahreinf and Koweit,t and Commission as Consul at
through these officers he exercised an Tlndefined but considerable influence subjccttothe
upon the political affairs of the States in question. On the Consular side, Pol. Res., under the Muscat
the Resident, in his capacity as Consul-General, had control of certain inland
Consulates in Sonth Persia. subject to the Pol. Res.,
under the Bahrein and
Arrangements since the Report of the Masterton-Smith Committee, 1921. Koweit Orders in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. .
3. The question of redistribution as between His Majesty's Government
and the Government of India of political responsibility in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
appears to have been tentatively under consideration in the years before the
War, but, partly, no doubt, because of the desirability of reaching a
comprehensive understanding with Turkey on the limits of British and
Turkish interests in the Gulf, no decision had been reached in 1914, The
pre-war system, the maintenance of which was the subject of considerable
discussion from time to time during the War, continued in force until 1921.
In that year the Masterton-Smith Committee, the conclusions of which were
accepted generally, subject to the approval of the Government of India, by
His Majesty's Government, recommended that henceforth the control of
policy as affecting the Arabian littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. should be
transferred to His Majesty's Government and exercised through the Middle
Eastern Department of the Colonial Office; that the functions on that
littoral of the Government of India should be confined to administrative and
local matters, the prior concurrence of the Colonial Office being obtained
by them to any measures of political significance, and that the relations of
His Majesty's Government with Ibn Saud (as Sultan of Nejd) should be ^ i2ofM ste t
conducted exclusively by the new Middle Eastern Department. The channel s n ii^Committ(4>^Report,
of control in all cases was to be the 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.

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The volume is entitled Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1907-1928 (printed by the Committee of Imperial Defence, October 1928).

Includes sections on The Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia (Nejd [Najd]), Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Muscat, and Bahrein [Bahrain].

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1 volume (90 folios)
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There is a table of contents at the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 90 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear 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. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 86, 86A. Two folios, f. 3 and f. 4 have been reattached in the wrong order, so that f. 4 precedes f. 3. The following map folios need to be folded out to be examined: f. 87, f. 88.

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