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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎107r] (226/414)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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VI.— TRIBAL SITUATION
Throughout the year, the tribes of this area
were remarkably quiet. This fortunate state of affairs
may be attributed to the presence of the Allied ^
occupation troops, and to the employment •they afforded
the local inhabitants. It is difficult to predict to
what degree security will be affected when these
restraining and palliative influences are removed.
The year was only barely uneventful however, for
on January 10th this year. Shaikh Abdullah, the fourth
and slightly demented son of the late Shaikh Khazal Khan
(formerly Shaikh of Mohommerah) ilegally entered Khorram-
shahr from Iraq with a following of armed retainers, and
established himself in one of his father^ old palaces
at Failiyeh, after evicting the four gendarmes who were
stationed there. However, on receiving no rally from the
local tribes, and finding the Persian force, which the
General Officer Commanding, Khuzistan Army Division, had
sent against him with commendable promptitude, to be too
strong for him, Abdullah withdrew the same night. His
precipitate retreat was probably also caused by receipt
of the news that Iraqi troops were taking up positions
along the frontier to effect his arrest should he try to
re-enter Iraq. Abdullah therefore sought sanctuary in
Kuwait.
The attack was not altogether a surprise, for
reports were received in December that Abdullah was
agitating among the Iraq tribes on the border for action
which would effect the restoration of the Khazal Family^
fortunes in Khuzistan. It was considered however that
Abdullah had no real following, and that his was only a
hare-brained scheme which would, at most, prove only of
nuisance value if it was carried out. Nevertheless, all
precautions were taken against such an eventuality.
His Majesty^ Consul
Khorramshahr.

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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.

The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.

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1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The 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 anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.

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