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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [72r] (148/488)
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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FOR THE YEAR 1912.
5
The modified scheme for lighting andbuoyii'ig the Gulf put forward in 1911
^ . was sanctioned by His Majesty's Govern-
g g an oymg * ment early in the year: it included the
following items:—
Jask . . . • .1 unlit buoy.
Little Quoin Island . . . Lighthouse.
Bandar Abbas . . . .1 lighted and 1 unlimited buoy.
Tanb Island .... Lighthouse.
Shaikh Shuaib Island . . Lighthouse.
Bushire . . . . .2 lighted buoys and 2 lanterns for
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.
flagstaff.
Shatt-el-Arab bar . . . Light vessel on outer bar. Lighted
buoy on inner bar (in addition to
present unlighte f d buoys).
Bahrain . . . .2 lighted and 1 unlighted buoys.
An unlighted buoy was established at Bandar Abbas in March, and the
Lighthouse superstructure was landed at Tanb Island in October, and at the
end of the year Mr. G. J. Homer, an experienced Assistant Engineer of the
Public Works Department, was deputed by the Government of India for its
erection. Lighted buoys for Bushire and Bahrain arrived during the year, but
owing to various technical difficulties connected with their establishment, it
was not found practicable to bring them into operation before its close.
Although the anarchy which prevailed throughout 1912 in Laristan and
the hinterland prevented His Majesty's
Vice-Consul from seeing much of the in
terior, it will be seen from Mr. New's report that he was able during the year
to visit most of the Chiefs of the littoral, as well as the chief of the important
district of Bastak and to cultivate friendly relations with them, which have
already borne fruit in facilitating the settlement of local claims : in the latter
category reference may be made to the friendly and effective action of Shaikh
Sagar of Naband in promptly handing over to His Majesty's Yice-Consul, three
men implicated in a bad case of piracy on a Kuwait boat: the men were taken
to Kuwait in H. M. S. <e Philomel," and, after due enquiry by the Political
Agent, were handed over to Shaikh Mubarak : the case is still in course of disposal.
Lingah is the only Persian Port of the littoral visited to any great extent
by Arabs of Oman and the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and Bahrain, and the presence of a
British officer at Lingah has enabled us to give them much more effective
protection and assistance than formerly, a fact which there is reason to believe
they fully appreciate.
Captain Biscoe's remarks regarding Monsieur Zwinne's ill-conceived schemes
for strengthening his personal position and influence at the expense of the Local
Government on the pretext of effecting financial reforms, and his inability to
keep faith either with His Majesty's Consul or with the merchants, show that
Monsieur Zwinne has learnt little from pasfc experience.
He displayed similar moral timidity, with much the same result, at Bushire
in 1909, and it was the same unfortunate tendencies which led to his enforced
departure from Mohammerah at the beginning of 1911 (vide page 68, Adminis
tration Eepot for 1911).
The difficulties in which several Indian firms were involved at Bandar
Abbas, owing to the failure of Persian
merchants to meet their obligations, thanks
to the prevailing anarchy and the insecurity of the trade routes, are of more
than merely local interest. It is noteworthy that Bandar Abbas is the only
post of importance on the Persian littoral where Indian merchants are estab
lished in any numbers, and Kerman, likewise in the British sphere, the only
town in the interior where they are strongly represented. Apart, therefore,
from the imperial question of British interests in general the Government of
India are separately interested, to a peculiar degree, in the security of the
Bandar Abbas-Kerman route and in the commercial conditions prevailing at
both places ; and in seeing that every assistance in our power is rendered to these
Indian firms, who have successfully established themselves in the face of so many
difficulties, and maintained their position for over a century at Bandar Abbas.
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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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