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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [10r] (24/488)
The record is made up of 1 volume (241 folios). It was created in 1912-1915. 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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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 1911.
tribes in the Province, and the maintenance of peace in Arabistan seems to
depend rather on the continuance of this state of affairs than on any self-
denying agreement between the parties, whose interests seem fundamentally
irreconcilable.
The chain of circumstances which led the Shaikh to take active measures
to ensure the Nizam-es-Sultaneh's safe arrival at Mohammerah after his
departure from Shiraz, illustrates the close interdependence of the affairs
and personalities of Fars and those of South-Western Persia generally, and
emphasizes the necessity for avoiding any local action which may bring
opposing interests into acute issue.
Captain Grey's report, which deals with Luristan, the Bakhtiari country,
Ahwaz and the Kuhgilu tribes, is less pleasant
reading than the above; at the close
of the year Luristan, Arabistan, and Fars (including the Governorship of
Behbehan) were all unprovided with Governors-General, nor was there any
prospect of appointments being made. The incursions of the Salar-ed-
Dowleh threw Luristan into the slough of anarchy from which Amir Mufa-
khan had been attempting, with some measure of success, to raise it, and
quarrels between the Wali and his son disturbed Pusht-i-Kuh. The absence
of the chief Khans, and the continued detention of the bulk of the Bakhtiari
forces, at no time too numerous, in Tehran and elsewhere, reacted unfavour
ably on the security of the Ahwaz-Ispahan road, which suffered severely from
the attacks of the Kuhgilu tribes, British goods to the value of over £10,000
being stolen. Internal dissensions also made their appearance, and further
lessened the ability of the Khans to keep order in their own territories, and
at the close of the year no action had been taken by the Khans to prevent a
repetition in the following summer of the previous year's anarchy.
An effective blockade was maintained throughout the year by the Royal
Persian Mekran Coast. NaV ^ ^ nd . ther€ Wa S Consequently a
great slump in the quantity of arms and
ammunition imported into Persian Mekran; the Afghans, taught by the losses
which they suffered in 1910, came to the coast in comparatively small num
bers, and confined themselves to the purchase of arms from Baluchis; apart
from the Arms Traffic question, there is little that calls for special notice
in the Report, but mention must be made of the difficulty which Mr. Barker
has experienced in inducing the Baluch Chiefs to pay approved claims, and
it seems plain that we shall be obliged to deduct the amounts from their sub
sidies, unless we are prepared to see our representations wholly ignored.
Mr. Gumbley's report includes a record of the movements of the Mekran
Field Force, which operated from Sirik and Galag under Lieutenant-Colonel
Delamain. Whilst its immediate objects were attained, the action then
taken has unfortunately brought us no nearer to the solution of the difficulties
resulting from Mir Barkat's continued existence in the country in a state of
outlawry.
The Indo-European Telegraph Department have, as usual, rendered
most valuable co-operation in the task of combating the Arms Traffic, and it
is most satisfactory to see at length the visible and anticipated effect of the
operations which have been conducted at such enormous outlay to Govern-
ment.
Taking up the thread from last year's review, I may say that the " Arms
Maskat Traffic " continued to behaze the Maskat
horizon.
The hoped-for settlement of the question with France has, as heretofore,
failed to take shape, and our rigorous blockade operations have continued,
with the result that, while the most important part of the traffic, that to
the Mekran Coast and the North-Western Frontier, has been practically killed,
the importations into Maskat have not decreased, and the traffic has become
diverted to the northern part of the Gulf. Here, as in the south, it has
aroused all the piratical instincts latent in the character of the maritime
inhabitants of the Gulf, and brought about a state of general demoralisation,
the evil effect of which pervades every community, and enters into every
question.
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The volume contains 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 1911 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912); 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 1912 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1913); 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 1913 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1914); 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 1914 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1915).
The Reports contain reviews 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. , and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative districts that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal places and tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, transport, judicial matters, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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- 1 volume (241 folios)
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There is a list of contents toward the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 2 on the first folio after the front cover, and terminates at 242 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil and 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.
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- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:240v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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