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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [252v] (509/616)
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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4 ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Generals wish was ultimately; complied with, on the 18th of January, and he
left Shiraz on the 5th of February, Zafar-us-Sultaneh being appointed to suc
ceed him.
Mr. J. H. Bill, I.C.S., of the Political Department of India, made over
charge of the Consulate to Mr. Smart of the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Consular Service, on
the 4th of April. Mr. Smart had arrived from the north, via Ispahan, travel
ling with a strong
Sowar
In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman.
escort, which again escorted Mr. Bill back to Tehran.
The latter was attacked between Abadeh and Shulgistan by a party of Kuh-
gelu, on the 15th of April. Mr. Bill, realising that his caravan was about to
be attacked, determined to try conclusions with the party while they were yet
in an open country; he and his sowars came into contact with the robbers and
succeeded in putting them to flight. Three of the gang however, having been
rounded up, showed fight, and two Indian sowars were killed in the skirmish
which ensued. Mr. Bill himself •fortunately escaped unhurt. Compensation
of 5,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
each for the two sowars killed was claimed from the Persian
Government, and specific measures for re-establishing the security of the road
were discussed with them. Meanwhile, the new Governor-General, Zafar-us-
Sultaneh, reached Shiraz on the 29th of May, with 800 infantry and 200
sowars; all, however, armed with obsolete rifles, and none supplied with cart
ridges.
The new choice proved to be a mere farceur, his only virtues seeming to be
opium-smoking and an insuperable objection to any kind of work. He only
lasted until the end of July when he was dismissed as incompetent, the situ
ation in Shiraz having been rendered considerably worse by his short sojourn.
He was succeeded, as a temporary measure, by Kawam-ul-Mulk, a notable of
Shiraz, whose appointment was strongly resented by the now powerful Sowlet-
ed-Dowleh.
During September, the situation in Pars and Laristan became worse, and
it was suspected that the Sowlet was deliberately promoting disorder in order
to force the Persian Government to give him chief control in Pars. Finally,
on the 14th of October, the patience of His Majesty's Government having been
exhausted. His Majesty's Minister was authorised to present a note to the
Persian Government to the effect that, if order was not restored on the Bushire-
Shiraz-Ispahan road within three months, we should insist on the formation
of force of road-guards under British officers. The terms of this note and the
intentions of the British Government were much discussed and misrepresented
in the Press, but at any rate they had the effect of arousing the Persian
Government to some sense of the gravity of the position. They replied how
ever with many specious arguments, intended to show that there was no real
justification for the delivery of the British note, that British trade in the
south had not suffered, and that the Persian Government were taking all pos
sible measures to remove causes of complaint. One of the remedies promised
was the appointment of an effective Governor-General to be amply supplied
with funds for the creation of a special corps of road-guards. The difficulty
was to find the individual to take up the thorny post of Governor-General of
Fars. The selection eventually fell on the actual " Nizam-us-Sultaneh. This
individual, under the title of Salar-i-Moazzim, was Governor of the Gulf
Ports at the time of Lord Curzon's visit in 1903. Afterwards, as Salar-i-
Mukarram, he became Governor of Arabistan, and then, on the death of his
uncle, the old Nizam-us-Sultaneh, in 1908, succeeded to the latter title and
became Governor-General of Kermanshah. A strong administrator, though
with a bad reputation for cruelty and rapacity, he had done good work at
Kermanshah, and if anybody could, in the present condition of the state ot
Denmark bring a measure of order and security to Fars, it was hoped that he
might. His arrival was awaited at the end of the year, pending which the
Kazerun route remained still closed; scarce caravans however passed from
time to time over the Firuzabad and other routes under the Sowlet s control,
and there was a slight improvement in the general situation.
His Majesty's Government having agreed, on the recommendation of tne
Resident and the Government of India,
Lmgah - to appoint a British officer as Vice-Con-
sul at Lingah, tentatively for a period of three years, the appointment was
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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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