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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [162r] (328/488)
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 TEAR 1913.
57
support to raising " rahdari " (road tax) on caravans passing between Yezd
and Kerman. As European consignments were apparently left immune the
matter did not call for the attention of His Majesty's Consulate.
The History of Bam is little beyond a chronicle of the bickerings of petty
Bam. Khans and factions and querulous com-
. plaints against its Governors, but Bam
held a place in men's mmds as being at once the bulwark of Kerman against
the Baluchis, and the threatened objective of invasions which they constantly
projected and not infrequently carried out. As a matter of fact, though its
outlying villages suffered, and it was repeatedly a place of refuge fortheir
inhabitants, it sustained itself no direct attack.
This sub-province, now entirely out of control of the Central Government,
Baiuchist&n. presents no feature of political unity'.
It harbours merely a collection of jarring
tribes, who, only to seek relief from the monotony of intertribal squabbling,
combine at times their forces to raid the neighbouring districts and plunder
their more industrious but feeble and defenceless population.
Baluch internal politics are very involved, and it is not easy in
Kerman to obtain any very exact or illuminating information regarding them.
The number of petty chiefs is great and each has his own petty policy, controlled
by petty necessities and circumstances. As far as can be gathered at present,
most of the faction fighting in the province may be attributed either to an old
feud between Said Khan,
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
-i-Nizam of Geh with Bahram Khan and Asian
Khan against
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Khan, who sometimes enjoys the assistance of the Zar-
gham-i-Nizam, or to that between Sherdil and various of the Sarhad chiefs
against the Akram-us-Sultaneh, a Bam magnate who resides in Narmashir. It
may be laid down that in existing circumstances Baluch disturbances to the
east of the parallel of Bam are of no consequence to British and of small con
sequence to Kermani interests. Could, however, the security of Narmashir be
assured the commercial importance of Bam as an importing and distributing
centre of foreign goods might be expected to increase. When, however, the
parallel of Bam is crossed to the west the prosperity of Kerman and the safety
of its external and internal trade are at once jeopardised. This was proved in
practice in 1913.
Tahrud Invasion. —Early in May, while the Amir-i-Mufakham was absent
at Aqta, a large force of Baluchis was reported to be marching on Narmashir.
The Governor of Bam raised all available forces and hurried off to Eigan to
meet them, but the enemy gave him the slip and, on the 14th, a party appa
rently 600 or 700 strong fell on the defenceless villages of Tahrud lying
between Bam and Kerman. They gutted the villages and the Indo-European
Telegraph Department Telephone office, plundered a large caravan at Sarvis-
tan, and, returning again eastwards, pillaged the villages of Darzin, Marghak
with a caravan they encountered there, Deh Bakri Damanaha, and Kuh-i-Saiyidi.
The Governor of Bam hearing the news hastened back to Bam, which the
Baluchis had already passed again on their way east, and gave them pursuit.
He was worsted and the Baluchis pursued their homeward course via
Duristan.
Among the leaders of this raid were Wali Muhammad Khan, Agha Sherdil
Khan, Darugha, Shah Abbas Khan and Shahsowar Khan. They are reported to
have carried off from Tahrud over 800 camels, mules and mares, as well as cattle,
and a number of female prisoners, while the value of property robbed or des
troyed in the caravans was very large The Hindus alone, who were the
heaviest sufferers, lost some 16,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
(£3,000) worth of goods. It was
only through their sheer bad luck that the Baluchis missed a caravan bringing
up 150,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
from Bandar Abbas for the Imperial Bank of Persia.
About the same time, another strong party of Baluchis had made a descent
into Khahis, where they stayed some time seizing or destroying everything they
could lay their hands on. They appear also to have been active on the
Khorasan road. Wider ambitions and a little determination would have
secured them Eawar and Kerman, for the local authorities were practically
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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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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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