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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [115r] (234/616)
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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AND THE MASKAT POLITICAL
AGENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
FOR THE YEAR 1907-1908.
39
seem to bave been occupied with sneaking dreams of disloyalty to the Persian
Goyernment.
In repudiating British claims and in their attitude on the Kuhgalu
question a tone of inflated self-importance and independence was distiuguishable,
and it will be shown further on how the sentiment which it indicated subse
quently manifested itself in full blossom.
45. JEtclatiows of the ^BakJitictri with the These relations were
principally in regard to the afl airs of the Concessions (Oil) Syndicate, and of
Messrs. Lynch Brothers, and they were extensive and by no means harmonious.
The Oil Syndicate.—It will be recollected that last year's report left the
narrative at the point at which a signed undertaking had been taken from
the Shahab that, in the event of his becoming
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
, he would satisfy all our
complaints, and in particular agree to our taking over the payment of the
guards. In the meantime he made himself responsible for the provision of
adequate protection.
After considerable delay some addition was made to the guards in
May, but an opportunity of definitely arranging the question did not occur
until the arrival of the Vice-Consul at Ardal towards the end of that month.
The net result of two or three weeks' delay there was that the Shafcab after
first trying to repudiate his undertaking altogether, asked for two or three
months' grace. Shortly afterwards the Samsam was reinstated, and this, and
the attitude of the Khans in general, has made it useless and inexpedient to
make the matter a subject of further direct pressure.
46. The question of the payment of compensation for losses sustained by
robbery, etc., which was a burning question at Kimah in March 1907, was
arbitrarily settled by the deduction from the instalment of guard money fall
ing due to the Khans on 15th May of the amount of the claims.
47. In the beginning of July a serious incident occurred at Batwand near
Maidan Munaftun, one of the Canadian employes of the Syndicate being
mobbed by a crowd of the local inhabitants. He was beaten, and narrowly
escaped severe injury from stones thrown at him.
The case was reported to Tehran, and His Majesty's Minister succeeded in
getting the Atabeg to send telegraphic orders to the Khans for the punishment
of* the offenders.
The Khans sent down some Agents, but they were quite incapable of
effecting what was requiied of them. Repeated reference was made to the
Khans both by the Yice-Consul and the Persian Ministers, the outcome being
that more efficient Agents were attached to His Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul
with instructions to satisfy his requirements, and eventually in the middle of
October the principal offenders were brought to book and public punishment
meted out to them at Batwand.
The unsatisfactory way in which the Khans had acted in the matter had
given rise to serious doubts as to the dangers which might be expected from a
population of savages coming to the knowledge that their excesses would not
meet with prompt punishment at the hands of their chiefs. Further weight
was given to these apprehensions by a case of firing on a caravan, and "of
threatened violence to the local Manager at Mamatain, and the question of
how best to secure the safety of the Syndicate's employes came under discus-
sion between the British and Indian Governments and the Legation. A
proposal was made by His Majesty's Minister, and endorsed by the Vice-Consul
to the effect that the strength of the Ahwaz Vice-Consular Indian escort
should be raised, and permanent detachments be posted at the sites of the
Syndicate's operations with a view to securing the safety of European
personnel.
Meanwhile losses by theft continued as at all times, and another case of Lur
truculence had occurred at Mamatain in the end of September. In this case
a local headman surrounded the boring works at Shardin with armed men and
commanded that work should cease. The Canadian drillers complied and
then proceeded to paok up their kit with the. full intention of leaving the
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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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