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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [146r] (296/488)
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 1913.
25
with ammunition, etc , succeeded in getting away without anyone seeino- them
or knowing in which direction they had gone. It was a most deplorable
blunder, and has been the direct cause of all the subsequent troubles at and
near Kazerun. "
The gendarmerie had no sooner taken over the road under the conditions
just described when large numbers of them had to be concentrated again to
repel an extraordinary situation that arose at Kazerun. After the main
column of the gendarmeiie had moved down the road, the gendarmes at
Kazerun proceeded to destroy towers and disarm villagers in the vicinity
The villagers flocked into Kazerun and, on the 21st November, attacked the
gendarmerie barracks about sunset. Ali Muhammad, KamarijL who as
already reported, had effected his escape with his whole band and had been
lurking in the neighbourhood, joined in the attack. About midnight 32
gandarmes evacuated the barracks and fled to the telegraph office, where, under
the orders of the Assistant Superintendent, Shiraz, the telegraphist disarmed
them so as to avoid an armed conflict in the telegraph office, A force of 400
to 500 men was despatched by Colonel Uggla to return to Kazerun at once
The Darya Begi was despatched by the Governor-General from S iraz with a
small force of 100 cavalry and 200 infantry to help in arranging the local
situation and to support the gendarmerie in every possible way. In the mean
time it was reported that Ali Muhammad Kamariji's tufangchis had killed a
local Finance Agent near Dehris.
After some sharp fighting on the 29fch, 30th November and 1st December,
the gendarmerie eolumn entered Kazerun and restored order. Ali Muhammad,
Kamariji, however again escaped, but his son-in-law was killed in the fighting.
The tale of casulties was as follows :—
Gandarmas 5 killed, 3 Persian officers and 23 men wounded. Enemy
29 corpses counted, wounded unknown. Three ringleaders were hanged. On
the whole the gendarmerie are undoubtedly making their presence felt in the
south. Their ultimate success is problematical.
In the three immediately preceding articles mention has been made from
FinSncial assistance given by His Majesty's ^i m ® to time of funds advanced and loans
Government to Persia. proposed for SOuthem Persia, more
especially Ears with which this report is
immediately concerned. It will perhaps be interesting to trace the history of
the conditions it was proposed from time to time to attach to the grant of this
financial assistance and what they finally resulted in.
The expedition planned to avenge Captain Eckford and restore order on
the road had been vetoed and the Ala-us-Sultaneh, with an ingenuity that
compels our admiration, had utilised the incident to borrow money from the
long suffering British Government for a force officered by Swedes who were
bent on introducing the commerce of their own country and making things
easy for that of Germany and, incidentally, annoying, in so far as in them
lay, our comrades of the Anglo-Eussian entente. The Political Eesident
suggested desiderata which might be secured from the Persian Government in
return for our forbearance.
The list was a formidable one and is given below :—
<c l. Documentary recognition of our prescriptive rights to control light
ing, buoying, and policing of Gulf in the same way that our
position has been recognised in respect of quarantine, in regard
to which the position might with advantage be reaffirmed inci
dentally."
" 2. Documentary recognition as a permanency of the old prescriptive
postal rights and privileges which we still enjoy, and an expres
sion of readiness to see those extended to other Persian ports of
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
as occasion may require."
(< 3. Undertaking to refrain from giving any lease or concession, com
mercial or otherwise, in Southern and South-Western Persia (i. e.,
in the area comprising the British and neutral zones under the
Anglo-Eussian Convention), or in Persian islands of the Gulf, to
£
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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