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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [79r] (162/616)
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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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 1906-1907.
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involves months of delay before a settlement can be arrived at, while too often the
defendant seizes the opportunity thus offered to him and decamps, rendering a
settlement impossible. Cases of fraudulent bankruptcy and flight have been increas
ingly frequent during the past year, the absconding debtors invariably betaking
themselves to Lar, whence all attempts to dislodge them and secure their return to
Bunder Abbas have hitherto proved fruitless.
The majority of these fraudulent debtors are Laris, who after taking substan
tial loans from the Hindus, place themselves under the pretection of the Deputy
Governor of Lar, who in return for a portion of their ill-gotten gains, is always
ready to deny that the debtors are within his jurisdiction. Secure in their retreat at
Lar, debtors either ignore the claims of their creditors, or from their advantageous
position, are able to dictate such terms of settlement as are beneficial to themselves
after which they are free to return to the town and to re-engage in trade as honest
merchants until such time as they find it convenient to repeat their former coup.
Insecurity of the Trade Routes. —There has been no improvement as regards
the security of the trade routes, and if there have been fewer instances of looted
caravans than in former years, it is rather due to the fact that when the roads were
known to be specially unsafe caravans did not traverse them, than to any actual
increased security. The beginning of the year saw Kal Siraj, a former Kalantar of
Finn ( £fj v -J aj ) engaged in hostilities with the newly appointed Kalantar, and as a
consequence, many disturbances took place in the country to the north of Bunder
Abbas. In April the Lar road was rendered unsafe by reason of the depredations
of Haji Talib Khan, who had previously been expelled from the Deputy Grovernor-
ship of Lingah. In November serious disturbances occurred in the Tarum ( Ojljj )
andForg \ ^^ ) districts, occasioned by the rival claims to the Deputy Governor
ship of the respective nominees of the Shoa-es-Sultaneh and the Kowam-al-Mulk ;
heavy fighting took place and many lives were lost, while for some weeks, caravans
were forced to make a long detour in order to avoid the disturbed districts. In
December, the caravan traffic on the Bunder Abbas-Kerman road was suspended
for some weeks, owing to the presence of bands of robbers on the roads a Jiruft
Hindu ventured to despatch five donkeys with goods from Bunder Abbas, but they
were looted near Navergu ( ) in Fars territory, and although after much pre
varication, the Fars authorities admitted that the place was within their jurisdiction
satisfaction had not been afforded at the close of the year. Turning to Bunder
Abbas and its immediate vicinity, robberies in the town have been rare, but the
villages in the neighbourhood and to the north-west of the town have suffered
much from the depredations of a certain Mullah Hassim, who is said to enjoy the
protection and support of Haji Ali Kuli Khan, Deputy Governor of Lar. Although
this outlaw has on several occasions yentured to within a few miles of the town, the
local authorities professed themselves as being powerless to effect his capture. In
February much apprehension was caused by the presence at Ziarat ( ), a
village within 30 miles from Bunder Abbas, of a force of some 75 armed men, who
having descended from the Tang-i-Zagh ( ^ ), demanded satisfaction for the
oppression and extortion to which the tribes had been subjected by Haji Mahomed
Khan, who had lately been removed from the Deputy Governorship of Bunder
Abbas. The force eventually withdrew and was pursued by Mir Ahmed Shah, the
Kalantar of Shamil, who, however, on receiving a present of 40
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, obligingly
abandoned the pursuit. When on a visit to Minab in February, His Majesty's
Consul witnessed the arrival of a large force of Sarbazes under Vali Khan of Kerman
and Mirza Khan of Rudbar. The ostensible object of the raid was to collect reve
nue from natives of Eudbar who had settled in the Minab district. The Deputy
Governor of Minab fled to Bunder Abbas and sought telegraphic orders from his
employer, the Moin-ut-Tuiar, but during his absence, the raiders committed sundry
acts of pillage in the town and then withdrew.
These numerous instances of unrest and disturbances in the district have been
quoted at some length in order to show under what difficulties peaceful traders
laboured in transporting their goods during the past year and the really pressing
need which exists for the Persian Government to take some action by which these
encumbrances shall cease to exist, but it is feared that in the absence of strong
pressure from His Majesty's Government some years must elapse before the
Persian authorities will be in a position to cope with the difficulty.
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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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