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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [125v] (255/616)
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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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.
Mebdi accordingly left for that place under circumstances explained to
me by Zabir-ed-Douleh as follows after much conversation Mehdi agreed to
go as required, he was to travel in a carriage supplied by Government and
stipulated that he should go without an escort as otherwise it might be said
that he was being sent as a prisoner. Mehdi then demanded that iii s
departure should be kept secret lest the people should prevent his going; he
accordingly was to go to his brother's village and from thence to Hamadau
where a carriage was to meet him. The above was all agreed to and Agba
Mehdi was given 500 Tumans for his expenses, which money was borrowed
from the Bank.
Mehdi disappeared and a few days afterwards was stopped at Kasr-i.
Shirin on the frontier where he had arrived without a passport and was
consequently unable to cross into Turkey. Zahir-ed-Douleh was astonished
Mehdi wired him tbat he had confidence in him as a Governor and as his
own presence was not needed he had decided to sro to Kerbela and devole
himself to religion and asked for a passport to leave the country. The
question was referred to the Atabeg who permitted him to cross the frontier,
Zahir-ed-Douleh remarked that it was the best thing as he was now out of
the way and his flight would discredit him with the people.
I did not discover till quite recently that the whole tiling was again a
piece of " haute politique." Zabir-ed-Douleh had played on the fear of Mehdi
had persuaded him that it was unwise to go to Tehran and had given him the'
funds to escape, thinking that he would thus get rid of a man who stood in
the way of bis settling matters as he desired. Atabeg's death created, as may
be supposed, considerable stir but no disturbances occurred.
For the next month things continued in the same state, the Governor
making enquiries and evolving suggestions. Both parties remained on the
defensive but discontent gradually began to arise again, as nothing definite
was decided. Zahir-ed-Douleh finally placed a scheme before the Majlis by
which Salar-ed-Douleh was made responsible for most of the losses since it
was to his various inflammatory letters that the troubles were ascribed,
Saif-ed-Douleh was made responsible for part and the remainder was variously
divided. The suggestion was not approved and so the situation advanced no
further.
At the beginning of October a notice was put up in a chief street leading
off the main square to the effect that unless the Governor did something for
those who had been looted in the summer he would be killed by a member of a
band of ten men who had banded themselves together for the purpose.
The country around became most unsettled; the Governor attempted to
eschew despotic methods. Much as one's sympathy lay with him in the
attempt it was predestined to failure. In a country in which there are no
methods of constitutional government, no laws by which to regulate the course
of events, no police to enforce order it is hopeless to attempt to govern
without a show of force. In such a country it is necessary to rule by fear.
A man like Zahir-ed-iJouleb, led away by the appearance of foreign cities
which he has seen from the outside and of the working of which he has no
idea, imagines that the absence of tyranny and the apparent calm aye automati
cally the result of civilisation. He does not realise the force which is always
present behind the law. It is easy to imagine then that in a country like
xersia Zahir-ed-Douleh's methods produced a condition of unsafetv which was
worse than any thing which had preceded it. I ascribe it solely to the
instability of rule in this country that tilings were not worse than they were
or it was never certain that Zahir-ed- Douleh would not be dismissed and a
stronger man put in his place who would tal<e a reckoning: from the causers
ot disturbance.
a ^ er Prince Zafar-esrSultaneh was appointed Commander-in-
rz 0 forces of Western Persia, He made Azam-ed-Douleh, son of
Zanir-el-Mulk, the head of the Zengineh tribe, chief of the forces at
Jiermansnah, and in the letter officially noting the appointment was a
marginal note saying that the latter was not to take up the appointment till
he had paid the 2,000 Tumans agreed upon as the price of the post.
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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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