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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [123r] (250/616)
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.
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country including one from Tabriz, which contained an invifatation from the
people of that place asking him to come there as the people of Azarhaijan
were nervous that the Atabeg was about to take away from them the Consti
tution. From my later knowledge of Salar I am inclined to think that these
letters were in the main forgeries made by himself. Daood Khan Kalhor
also was supposed to have written saying that he would not fight against His
Imperial Highness—a promise which, if made, he fulfilled by being the chief
factor in preventing Salar from taking Nehavend.
While the Mirza was in the Lur camp a letter came from the Eussians
telling His Imperial Highness to write to the Russian Consul at Kermanshah
who would do all he could to help him. Salar expressed great distrust of the
Eussians to the Mirza, and said the English were the cause of the constitution
which the Shah and Atabeg detested: I am afraid that he had no higher
motive than this for turning to the English.
(M. Nicolsky, the Russian Consul, was sent for from Eussia on account of
Salar-ed-Douleh, but arrived after the incident Was finished.)
Salar stated to the Mirza that, if it came to fighting, he did not propose to
attack Kermanshah, which contained Consuls and a bank, but that he would
loot Nehavend and Douletabad.
After my Mirza's return the Russian acting Consul, M. Petroff, called on
me and said that he had received a letter from Salar-ed-Douleh, but did not
mention that it was in answer to a letter from his own Mirza, formerly his agent
at Khurramabad. I now received orders that I was to keep the Eussian
Consul informed of everything, and after this date we acted in concert.
On the 30th May Salar sent me a second letter saying that Amir Afkham
and Zahir-ed-Douleh, the Governor of Hamadan, had been told off to treat with
him but he had refused to agree to anything except through the British Lega
tion. The Mirza had taken nine days going and coming to and from Salar's
camp. It appeared to me, then, advisable to go to Kangawar three stages
from Kermanshah where there is a Telegraph Office and from whence I could
keep in closer touch with affairs. M. Petroff agreed to come with me, and
having obtained permission, we started off on the 30th May. On the second
dav after we arrived at Kangawar M. Petroff received a telegram from his
Minister saying that both Consu\s were to go to meet Salar-ed-Douleh, At
the same time I received a telegram from the Minister saying that there were
telegrams of state importance awaiting me at Kermanshah which I was to
obtain. We received information that Salar had moved to Khavva \\hich is
only ^5 miles from Kerraanshah. The same evening I received telegrams
informing me that fighting had broken out between the two parties in the
town, that some 13 had been killed, and the people's party had taken refuge in
the Consulate, to the number of about 2j000. I accordingly decided to send my
baggage to Harsin, one stage from Khawa, to ride into Kermanshah in one
day, arrange matters in the town and then ride out again and meet the baggage.
M. Petroff agreed to accompany me and we arrived in Kermanshah on the
evening of the 4th June. I found the Consulate grounds crowded.
On the 1st June W T asook-el-Memalik, the accountant-general of the army
and one of the moving spirits among the officials, had been going through the
streets when a dispute arose, the people attacked him wounding him severely
about the head; his escort replied with their revolvers, the riot commenced
and was carried on throughout the day.
The following morning the troops composed of Kerind Eegiment, the
Sinjabi sowars and some infantry of the Zangineh Eegiment started looting
the town. The bazaars were hastily closed but the soldiers broke open the
shops carrying off everything they contained. The amount of loss entailed
cannot be estimated but the bazaar within a radius of the central square was
swept from one end to the other. Some idea of the damage done can be
estimated from the fact that one Eussian subject alone lost a sum of Tumans
20,000 or about £4,000.
The people state that the order for the looting was given by Saif-ed-
Douleh himself. Whoever may have been the originator, if there was one,
there is a little doubt that the official classes benefited largely and a good part
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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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There is a list of contents at the front of each Report.
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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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