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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [15r] (34/488)
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. 17
Dowleli complained bitterly, particularly as Muwaqqar-ed-Dowleh, then
Karguzar at Shiraz, and an inveterate enemy of his, was also on friendly
terms with the Consulate, with which he himself had latterly ceased to have
intimate relations.
We may now take up the narrative of events. Nizam-es-Sultaneh
Arrert of the Kawamis. arrived at Shiraz, on April 6th whilst
. an unsuccessiul attempt to reduce the
Chief of Kamarij, on the Bushire-Shiraz road, was still in progress; a week
later, after laying himself out to lull the suspicions of the Kawami brothers
by every sort of blandishment, he arrested them both by a ruse, on the 15th
April, and announced his intention of sending them before a criminal court
at Shiraz on various charges, some of which were punishable with death.
In the meantime he devoted himself to extracting from them large sums of
money and valuables. Any momentary improvement in the situation result
ing from this bold stroke was soon counterbalanced, as might have been fore
seen, by the resentment which it aroused not only amongst the adherents of
the Kawamis in Shiraz, but among the Bakhtiari Khans in Tehran.
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Assad at once postponed his imminent departure for Europe, and brought
all his influence to bear in favour of the brothers, who, he said, had only
stayed in Shiraz in deference to his earnest request, and for whose safety he
consequently felt morally responsible. He went so far as to repudiate
responsibility for the Ahwaz-Ispahan road, in order to show his disapproval
of the Nizam's proceedings.
Finding themselves in a dilemma, the Persian Government compromised
by ordering Nizam-es-Sultaneh to release the Kawami brothers on condition
that they left Fars for Europe; the Nizam resisted these orders for some time,
and was energetically supported in doing so by the Sowlet-ed-Dowleh and
others, who did their best to inflame public opinion against the brothers; in
the first week of May, however, the Governor-General bowed to the inevitable
and commenced making arrangements for the despatch of the brothers to
Bushire.
They left Shiraz on the 7th May with an escort of 50 sowars, and on the
Murder of Nasr-ed-Dowieh. same day their party was ambushed
about 2 miles east of Khaneh Zinian,
the first stage out of Shiraz. Nasr-ed-Dowleh, who was behind, was killed.
Kawam-ul-Mulk, unlike his brother (who had been given a mule to ride), was
mounted on a horse and was some way ahead. Seeing his brother fall, he at
once galloped off, and next day, as had been anticipated, made his way by
circuitous routes first to his house in Shiraz and then to the Consulate, where
he sought and was granted sanctuary by His Majesty's Consul, who, in anti
cipation of the contingency, had obtained the sanction of His Majesty's
Minister to this course, should the necessity arise. There is little doubt from
what subsequently transpired that the murder was instigated by Sowlet-ed-
Dowleh with the connivance of Nizam-es-Sultaneh,
It was from the first realized that unless the Kawam could be removed,
grave disorders would supervene, but unfortunately no means of doing so
without imperilling both his life and property was discovered. It also soon
became clear to the Nizam that he had overreached himself, and this being
the case, it seemed that he was not unwilling that affairs should take so un
favourable a turn that His Majesty's Government might be compelled to
intervene; such intervention would, he no doubt believed, serve his own inter
ests as one of the principal land-owners in the province.
In any case there is no doubt that he commenced to intrigue actively
against the Consulate, thus making it impossible for us to make concrete
suggestions to the Persian Government for the Kawam's removal.
Probably as a direct result of these intrigues, on 10th June, a large body
of Persian soldiery, who had on the
^Attempt by Persian soldiers to enter Con- game day demanded arrears of pa y from
the Governor-General and received a
satisfactory reply, proceeded to the Consulate with the ostensible object of
taking sanctuary, as a protest against the npn-receipt of their pay; on being
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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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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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