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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [56v] (117/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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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.
IN THE PERSIAN GULP,
The past year, from an administrative point of view, may perhaps be best de
scribed as one of expectant inactivity. There has been no scope for energy or
enterprise in new directions and in regard to one and all of the posts whose passing
history is now dealt with, it may, I think, truly be said, in each case, that one-half
the energies of the representative of British interests have been devoted, no
doubt with good reason, to keeping the other within check, often under suffi.
ciently trying conditions.
Two epoch-making developments have contributed to induce this necessity.
Firstly the determination of His Majesty's Government to come to an amicable
settlement w^th Eussia in regard to our respective and often conflicting interests
in the Middle East and the progress of negociations in furtherance of this settle
ment. Secondly the spread of the nationalist movement in Persia resulting in
the grant of a constitution by Mozaffer-ud-din Shah by
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
of 1st January
1907, while actually on his death-bed.
I may mention here that contrary to precedent the actual demise of His
Majesty after a lingering illness on the 5th January was received with almost
complete indifference throughout the country ; but his long illness and the conse
quent unsettled condition of affairs in Tehran resulted in the prevalence of much
disorder in the distant provinces and Fars especially was a prey to it. Mozaffer-
ud-din Shah was succeeded on 9th January by Prince Mahommed Ali Mirza, Gover-
nor-Generalof Azerbaijan, his eldest son by a non-Kajar wife, to whom he be
queathed a most difficult inheritance which makes the future both of tlie
sovereign and of the country a matter for much speculation and grave concern.
With extremely delicate negociations in progress between the Eussian Gov-
ernment and ourselves in regard to our spheres of interest or disinterest in Persia,
and with the existence within the country itself of a strong wave of national feeling,
easily convertible in its early stages into an anti-foreign movement, it is not difficult
to realise the necessity which has existed for extreme caution on the part of the
representatives of Government in the conduct of their duties within the sphere
in question, having for its object the avoidance of any action or measure calculated,
either to embarrass the negociations above mentioned, or to excite the suspicions
of the Persian public and Press, already considerably aroused, by rumours of the
contemplated entente, and convinced, according to their lights, that any such un
natural fraternization between the Lion and the Bear can but presage ill for the
future of Iran.
Under such conditions all local considerations have had to give way to
weightier interests, and thus it is that the history of the several outposts of the
Bushire Eesidency for the past year furnishes few new themes of special interest
or importance, and leaves the salient questions mentioned in last year's Report
where we left them.
With these prefatory remarks I may briefly discuss the several reports here
embodied.
I.—BUSHIRE AND FARS.
The progress of German commercial competition, including the acquisition
of mining rights on Abu Musa Island by Herr Wonckhaus ; the institution of an
almost international campaign against the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Quarantine System as ad
ministered by the Government of India for His Majesty the Shah, a campaign
to which jealousy of the special position of Great Britain seems to have given
no little zest; the travail of Bushire, in common with her sister townships, in the
birth of constitutional ideas and the aftermath thereof,—these are the salient points
of the last year's history of Bushire. Similarly, that of Shiraz is almost entirely
concerned with the convulsions of the same infant prodigy, aggravated by the
general chaos and anarchy existing throughout Fars, as the result of several years
of gross misgovernment.
It is difficult to conceive how by its own unaided efforts the Persian Gov
ernment can ever hope to bring back these distant provinces to a state of order and
prosperity.
II.—ARABISTAN.
The topic which so far as the record is concerned has been chiefly in evidence
D'Arcy OU Conoassion. durin g th f ^ ^ ^ ^ ° f ,
gress and difficulties of the D^Arcy Oil
Concession Syndicate the inception of whose operations was chronicled last year*
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The volume contains Administration Report on 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 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on 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 Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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 Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and 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 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
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 regions 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 tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, 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 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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