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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎1732] (249/1262)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (1165 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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1732
Hr. Dawse*
8uo:gestions,
1871-1873.
Adoption of
a Shashcar-
Isfalian-
Tehran
project,
1876-1877.
Conflicting
railway
policy of
Britain, and
Russia in
Persia, 1878.
In 1871 Mr. Dawes of the firm of Messrs. Gray, Paul and Co., sugges
ted the construction of a railway, to which the Persian Government
should afford a guarantee, or material aid in some other form, from
Shushtar by Isfahan to Tehran. This suggestion, which did not meet
with acceptance, was repeated by him two years later, with the obser
vation that a line from Dizful by Khurramabad might possibly be
found more advantageous than one from Shushtar by Isfahan.
After an interval, Persia having become desirous of the assistance
of European capitalists for developing an internal railway system, the
question of railways between the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Tehran again came
to the front in 1876 ; and as Baron Renter had outstanding claims on
the Persian Government Her Majesty^s Government decided to support
him as a competitor for a southern railway concession. The line recom
mended by Her Britannic Majesty^s Minister at Tehran was one from
Tehran to Shushtar by Isfahan, which, he pointed ont, would benefit by-
pilgrimages to Qum from both sides and would also carry Persian pil
grims proceeding to and returning from the shrines of Turkish 'Iraq
and the Hijaz. The project, however, coupled as it was with distasteful
proposals for the navigation of the Karun by foreign vessels, was repelled
by the Persian Government.
Russian advice was undoubtedly a factor in the protracted opposition
of the Persian Government to the British scheme of a Karun trade
route and to the road and railway projects connected therewith; and^
similarly, British influence was exerted to prevent the acquisition by
Russia of railway advantages in the north. In 1878 the British
Minister at Tehran opposed projected railways between Rasht and Tehran
and between Tehran and Tabriz; but the former was discountenanced bj
the Russian Minister also, the Russian view being that any Persian
railway which might be constructed should connect with the Russian
system at Julfeh, according to a Russian scheme (General Falckenhagen's)
which had been pressed in 1874-75, Mr. Thomson pointed out the
dangers from Russia to which the proposed lines in the north would
expose Persia and dwelt on the innocuous character of the railway
communications with the south the creation of which was desired bj
Britain ; but apparently without result. A concession for a Rasht-
Tehran railway was, in fact, granted to a French Company : but the
evident intention of Russia to prevent its commercial success by measures
taken within her own borders prevented, in combination with other
difficulties, its execution.

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This volume is Volume I, Part II (Historical) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.

Part II contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914, 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (pags v-viii), and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (ix-cxxx). These are also found in Volume I, Part IA of the Gazetteer (IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1).

Part II consists of three chapters:

  • 'Chapter X. History of ’Arabistān' (pages 1625-1775);
  • 'Chapter XI. History of the Persian Coast and Islands' (pages 1776-2149);
  • 'Chapter XII. History of Persian Makrān' (pages 2150-2203).

The chapters are followed by nineteen appendices:

Extent and format
1 volume (1165 pages)
Arrangement

Volume I, Part II is arranged into chapters that are sub-divided into numbered periods covering, for example, the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The appendices are sub-divided into lettered subject headings and also contain numbered annexures, as well as charts. Both the chapters and appendices have further subject headings that appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally througout the volume at the bottom of the page which provide further details and references. A 'Detailed Table of Contents' for Part II and the Appendices is on pages cii-cxxx.

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The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 879, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 1503.

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