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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎138v] (281/418)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (205 folios). It was created in 1926-1931. 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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12
CONFIDENTIAL.
CHAPTER III.
Summary of Events and Conditions in Ears during the year ended March 31st,
1930.
The abolition by the Central Government in March, 1929, of the Qawam-ul-
Mulk's hereditary governorship over eastern Fars (Fasa, Darab, Lar, Sab'eh,
and the small Gulf Ports north of Lingeh) and the Khamseh 'Arab tribes was
effected right at the end of the previous year (March 1929). Its consequences
became apparent at the very beginning of the year under review. The Qawam
himself, surmising that his people would object to the change and that he would be
suspected of fomenting them, promptly asked for leave to quit Persia. He went
to Berlin, Paris and London, etc., and is now understood to have settled down
in Bey rout, where his sons are completing their education. His foresight was
justified : had he stayed in the country he would undoubtedly have shared with
Saulat-ud-Dauleh the unpleasant experience of incarceration in a Tehran
dungeon.
2. While the Qawam was on his, way to Europe, Sartip Abul Hasan Khan
Zandieh, who had been appointed Military Governor of Fasa, Darab, Lar and
the Khamseh Arab tribes arrived at Shiraz. Like the Qawam, he suspected that
the people of his new Govemorate would not be well disposed towards, the new
regime which he represented. He therefore asked Sartip Muhammad Khan
Shahbakhti, Officer Commanding the Pars Independent Brigade, to give him an
escort of 300 soldiers. This request Sartip Shahbakhti refused, and when the
writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. arrived at Shiraz in May the two Sartips were still at loggerheads^
Meantime the Qawain's men were not idle. The Khamseh Arab tribes, among
whom the Baharlus were the outstanding element, in alliance with the people
of Lar and Sarkuh and with the approbation of the settled population in Darab
and Fasa, rose against the Persian Government. They drove the Persian
Government officials out of Darab at the end of April, and advanced on Fasa,
which they took on May 9th.
4, Sartip Abul Hasan Khan left Shiraz -with a small force on May 12th and
proceeded to Fasa which he retook ; but shortly afterwards, the rebels rallied, and
he was surrounded and besieged in Fasa. Sartip Shahbakhti with a large force
went out from Shiraz to relieve him. Together they re-established order in
Fasa for a time : but Darafb and Lar remained in the hands of the rebels.
When the troops returned to Shiraz, the Baharlus again advanced on Fasa, which
they retook on June 25th. Soon after they took Niriz and Istahbanat and
began to approach Shiraz by two lines, via Sarvistan which they occupied on
July 41 h, and via Kharameh which they took and few days earlier ; but they
got no further, for at this juncture Sartip Abul Hasan Khan was recalled and
Yavar Muhammad Taqi Khan Arab appointed Governor of Fasa and Lar. He
left Shiraz with 1,000 men on July 30th and advanced towards Fasa, sometimes
negotiating and sometimes, fighting. With the help of his influence over the
Khamseh 'Arab tribes he was able to reach Fasa on August 12th. He was re
inforced there by 700 men on August 21st. Early in September he advanced
towards Darab, which he occupied after defeating a Baharlu force. The
Baharlus then appealed to the rebels of the Sarkuh district for assistance, but
the combined forces were caught between Yavar Muhammad Taqi Khan's army
and a body of reinforcements newly arriving from Shiraz and suffered a severe
defeat. Sheikh Has ( san Sarkuhi fled, but most of his followers surrendered.
The Baharlus also tendered their submission. Later, in the winter, troops were
sent to Lar itself and re-established Government authority there ; schools are
being opened, taxes collected, and the rebels of yesterday are adopting Pahlavi
hats and new style clothes,
5. The Government might have dealt with the rebellion in eastern Fars more
promptly if they had not been engaged elsewhere. Unfortunately for them, the
Qasjiqai tribes, alarmed by reports that Sultan 'Abbas Khan, the oppressive
Military Governor who had fleeced them with a very heavy hand, had been re
appointed, and that the Government intended to number and tax their sheep,
deprive them of their rifles, and make them settle down in villages in northern
Fars, broke out in revolt under the leadership of 'Ali Khan, the Saulat-ud-
Danlah's half brother. The Saulat himself who was in Tehran, was promptly
put into gaol by the Persian Government, who kept him in a damp cell too low
to allow a person to stand upright in it. Nasir Khan, the Saulat's eldest son,
was also kept in Tehran j but Malik Mansur Khan, the second spii, a scholar

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The volume includes Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1925 (GIPS, 1926); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1926 (GIPD, 1927); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1927 (GIPD, 1928); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1928 (GIPS, 1929); [ Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1929 ] (GIPS, 1930); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1930 (GIPS, 1931); . The volume bears some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up 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. , and provide a wide variety of information, including review 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. ; details of senior British administrative personnel and foreign representatives; local government; military, naval, and air force matters; political developments; trade and economic matters; shipping; aviation; communications; notable events; medical reports; the slave trade; and meteorological details.

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1 volume (205 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover and continues through to 207 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears 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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