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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [‎183r] (370/616)

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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 1908
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strong to order the besiegers to retire before. The old fashioned ideas of
storming parties or sorties would lead to bloodshed and produce bad-feeling
which was particularly to be avoided. After a sufficient delay in Bam Wali
Khan marched on to Baluchistan and encamped within parleying distance
of Bahram Khan, who was satisfied with the size of the force with him and
consented to retire. When the Baluchis had retired to a safe distant
Wali Khan and his army entered Bampur in state and despatched news at
once to German. Having accomplished this he will probablv be satisfied
to leave the Baluchis to their own devices, as they have been left for some
years, so long as he can recover enough revenue to keep himself going and
to stave off the insistence of higher authorities for more
Sirjan was the next district taken in hand and Mirza Agha Mustaufi
was sent to make peace between the two parties and to try and combine
them in the defence of the district against the Fars robbers. His efforts
were not successful and after making himself about equally disliked by
both parties he was recalled to Kerman. The Mutaan-ul-Mulk was appointed
to succeed him, but before he started the heads of both parties had come in
to Kerman where attempts were being made to reconcile them. After much
^ f alld talk a tem Porary truce at any rate was patched up between them
and they returned to Sirj an where the Mustaan-ul-Mulk was engaged in
the two equally difficult tasks of extracting money from empty pockets
and keeping off Fars hawks with Kerman sparrows.
For the restoration of authority in Baft, Rudbar and Jiruft a large
expeditionary force under Sartip Abdul Muzaffar Khan was collected at
Mashiz and Muhammad Khan, Sartip of Jiruft, was ordered to collect his
available forces in Jiruft to co-operate with and join it somewhere about
Jxuabar. ihere being no special correspondence with either force and neither
post nor telegraph throughout its area of operations, very little news of its
p^tormance has come through. It seems to have met with opposition only
m Kudbar where the total casualties amounted to one killed and two wounded,
it appears however to have been successful in enabling the governors to
return to their respective governments and is still busy in sweeping up the
districts for revenue and, of course, for its own maintenance.
No attempts have been made to deal effectively with the robbers who still
rob and plunder at their will from the Meshed road on the north to the
roads on the south-west below Sirjan.
. Tl1 ® general situation now is that Kerman and Bam are cowed but
simmering with discontent while in the districts a sullen but helpless peasan
try are being fleeced of the little that robbery and chaos have left them The
only people who are contented are the various bands of robbers whose only
rear is that there will soon be nothing more left for them to rob. Although
outwardly order and authority have been re-established, the last state of the
district is worse than the first.
The postal service has naturally followed the way of everything else Post,
and got gradually worse and worse. No contractor would continue to go on
replacing the horses stolen and the carriages burnt by the robbers indefinitely
especially as the payments under his contract were becoming less and less
egular. Practically about two out of every three posts from the north
throu g h b y robbers and any letter suspected of containing anything
gotiable was opened. Throughout the year parcels have accumulated under
P 0 ^ 8 an( i advanced like attacking parties by short rushes
tne next cover as opportunity offered.
w „ The letters and papers gradually were reduced to the same tactics and
were delivered frequently in accumulation of two or three and once even
jour weeks posts. Annoying as such a state of affairs is one can only admire
e solidity of the lower staff who continue even intermittently to carry the
nuns, past places, in which they always ran the risk of being stripped of
everything but their hats and trousers.
No new telegraph line has been opened during the year and Bunder Tew„u..
as is still 300 miles distant as the crow flies and some 2,000 by the tele-
graph wire.

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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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1 volume (304 folios)
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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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