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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [146] (160/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. 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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146 CHAP. VII. POLITICAL— oman.
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Oman.
L Civil .4 dm in / .s tra t ion.—The interna] administration
cf Muscat was hitherto carried out by an Advisorv Council
of Ministers. (President Minister of Finance, Minister of ^ cop
Religious Affairs and the Minister of Justice.) In theory it
exeifised all ordinary powers of administration, both in the ■
absence and during the presence of the Sultan siifnoot ■Inn
to the retention by His Highness of the power to decide fM
^Lrp n + f S v, extraordinary importance affecting the
interests of his State or dynasty. Tt did not, however ^
appear to have exercised very effective control.
Sultan Saiyed Taimur bin Faisal has abdicated in favour
n„i\ S Q SO " ^ n y' d *?: d ' v] } 0 ^een officially recognised
198 ) as Sultan by His Majesty's Government. The Council
of Ministers has therefore disappeared.
At the request of the Sultan, an Englishman was appoint-
Musc^ a rn ^^.1925. was a member of the
^so f fnH T' hmc tl om "Z Finance Minister and had
sha r e m the Government of the country. The
result was an improvement in the general efficiencv of the
administration. The appointment still continues.
r^\ SnU u n ' S 1916 the Sultan 's autho-
nty has been limited to his capital and the coast line
e populations of both the interior and the west and north
wor^^^e'^w 086 0f i" the South-east, in other
words the great proportion of the inhabitants do not
of c \rS r h ;Lir^n a lefr in practioa,
3. British Influence .---Although the Sultan of Muscat
is in theory a wholly independent ruler, British influence
has been predominant in Muscat since the end of the 18th
cTu the rela tions which exist between
the Sultan and His Majesty's Government and the Govern
ment ot India approximate to those which obtain between
™L? 0 T n T?rt. 0 L Tndia and an Tndian State under the
suzerainty of His Majesty.
His Majesty's Government and the Government of India
etJl ,o«i re ^ rese . nted i n Muscat by the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
t i t sln ce 1867 holds a commission as Consul
tw Muscat and also exercises the powers of a District
Swi! ^ Sessions Judge. Political control rests
■ 1 i 1 e Government of India subject to the general con
trol of His Majesty's Government.
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (112 folios)
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There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear 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. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/141
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- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence