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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [148r] (300/488)
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 1918.
29
These tribesmen with the Mamasannis and Muhammad Ali Khan, Kash-
Buwair Ahmadis.
kuli, figure in last year's report' as the
perpetrators of the <£ Eckford' , outrage.
In the course of the present year, they or at least a portion of the tribe, came
into contact with the
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.
in a rather curious fashion and the fact seems
worthy of record. The tribe are divided into dwellers in the hot country
(Garmsiri) and dwellers in the mountains (Sarhadi).
It is the first division or rather their chiefs who came into contact with
the
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.
, while it is the latter to whom the murder of Captain Eckford
has been attributed.
On the 14th January, the Resident reported to His Majesty's Minister
at Tehran that deposits of money, amounting to roughly 15,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
the
property of certain Buwair Ahmadi Chiefs were in Bushire, partly with the
Imperial Bank of Persia and partly with the British naval contractor. Nego
tiations for the withdrawal of these deposits were then in progress. The Resi
dent invited His Majesty's Minister to consider, in consultation with
the Tehran Bank^ Manager, the expediency of asking the Persian Government
to request the British authorities at Bushire to withhold payment of these
deposits, as it was conceivable that the payees were concerned in the murder
of Captain Eckford. The Minister did not, however, consider himself justified
in taking this step which might be regarded by the Bank's clients as a breach
of confidence, more especially as it was beginning to be thought at Tehran that
the Kughelu, rather than the Buwair Ahmadi, were responsible for the outrage
of December 11th, 1912.
Uncertainty as to whom actually the money should be paid and quarrels
among the heirs of the original depositor delayed payment of this
money which was still in deposit at the close of 1913.
This Chief does not figure largely in the records of the year. In late
Muhammad Ali Khan, Kashkuii. October, Colonel XJggla informed His
Majesty s Consul, Shiraz, that he had offer
ed to vacate Shapur so that it might be restored to its proper owners on the
condition that the surrender is effected in the presence of a gendarmerie force.
How the Shapur valley was evacuated by Muhammad Ali Khan has already
been related in the close of the article on the " Gendarmerie "
One of the results of the Kawam's expedition of April and May 1913,
Proposed sale of villages in the neighbour- ^^-S the Confiscation to the Stute Of certain
hood of Mervdasht and Kafrak to satisfy British villages in the neighbourhood of Mervdasht
clal ™ s • and Kafrak. His Majesty's Consul,
Shiraz, suggested that the sale of these villages would suffice to pay off a
large portion of the British claims for losses suffered in the province of Ears
which amounted to about £20,000, and that the Persian Government should be
moved to authorise this sale for the purpose or at least to earmark the annual
revenue towards the gradual liquidation of the British claims. His Majesty's
Minister supported this proposal, but Sir E. Grey found that there were a
variety of objections to such a course, for instance, other British claimants
might resent the preferential treatment accorded and other powers might be
tempted to urge the Persian Government to send a military expedition for the
settlement of their claims. Sir E. Grey preferred that funds from the sale or
revenue of the villages should be earmarked for the upkeep of the gendarmerie
in Pars or for otherwise strengthening the local administration.
A further submission of the views of His Majesty's Consul was requested
and he suggested that the sums recovered should be divided proportionately
amongst claimants of all nations for losses incurred in Ears. This proposal
eventually received a rather qualified approval from His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Eoreign Affairs, in November, but no claims were
actually settled before the end of the year.
A special article has been devoted to the " Constant " outrage which, after
» „ , , , all, may fairly be taken to have been an
aS 0 Busl " re and the surr0 " ndiDg isolated act of revenge of no special
significance by a dismissed employe ;
others follow dealing with the Tangistani operations and Bakhtiari aggressions
against the Lirawi tract. Eor the rest, there is little to remark.
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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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