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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [168r] (340/616)
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.
FOB THE YEAR 1908.
27
Early in August, Nasir Khan proceeded with 200 of their men to Tabriz
to aid the Shah's cause. This force appears to have remained there at least
till late autumn and it is not certain whether it has yet returned. It is said
to have sustained heavy casualties.
Meanwhile in Tehran the Bakhtiaris had arrived too late to join in the
loot, and the heat and dust of the Bagh-i-Shah was probably little grateful to
the rank and file. At any rate the three chiefs there returned in September
to raise a relieving force.
It is stated that the tribes were unfavourable to the employment of
Bakhtiaris in unremunerative service in the north, and that considerable
difficulty was experienced in raising the new contingent. The Samsam's
attitude in regard to the matter has already been remarked on and it no doubt
further increased the difficulties of the other Khans. A force was nevertheless
raised and passed through Ispahan on its way north in October.
In an interview with His Majesty's Consul at Ispahan in September
Haji Khasrau Khan himself expressed dissatisfaction with the position the
Khans had got themselves into, but affirmed that it was now impossible for
them to go back on the line they had taken up. He asserted that they had
seen no hope for Persia in the Majlis and now saw none for it in the Shah—a
very reasonable confession of faith.
41. On his way down in September Haji Khasrau Khan gave out that he
had received orders from the Shah to take over charge of the artillery and
arsenal in Ispahan and of the Chaharmahal and Faraidan Regiments, as
well # of the roads in the Ispahan province. This at once brought him into
conflict with the newly arrived Governor, the Iqbal-ud-Dowleh, who refused
to part with these probably profitable appanages of his Governorship.
Negotiations ensued but no result had been arrived at when His Majesty's
Consul quitted Ispahan.
42. Things have since taken another turn, and it may be stated, though it
does not fall within the limits of this report, that on the invitation of the
people of Ispahan, Najaf Kuli Khan (the Samsam) entered the town in
force in the beginning of January and usurped the Government, the Governor
taking "bast" at the British Consulate-General.
This was probably a reply on Najaf Kuli Khan's part to his presumable
deposition by the Persian Government following his refusal to proceed to
Tehran when summoned by the Shah.
He had already announced that he was " Mashrutah Khwah " (a supporter
of constitutional government) and that if he were bullied he would go off and
establish constitutional government in Ispahan. The old aristocrat, all
whose tendencies are autocratic, is no doubt now engaged in this congenial
task.
His brother Haji Khasrau Khan has been commissioned by the Shah to
eject him.
43. The Bakhtiaris and rhe British Government, eta—Requests put for
ward by the Khans and by the Sheikh of Mohammerah for a specific declara
tion that the British Government would undertake to guard their interests,
led to a correspondence between the Indian Government and the Foreign
Office with a view to determining what assurances, if any, could be given.
In the case of the Khans the decision was arrived at that it was only
possible to renew our assurances of general friendship. It was felt that any
more specific assurances were only likely to result in our being jailed (Ji to
champion the Khans in their differences with the Persian Government, m
which they are at least as often in the wrong as m the right, under
instructions from His Majesty's Minister, the general assurances
referred to above were communicated by His Majesty's Consul to the Khans
in September.
44. During the journey of His Majesty's Consul through the Bakhtiari
country in the months of May and June, property to the value of 100
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
was stolen on various occasions by night from his camp by the local tribes.
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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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