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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎1962] (479/1262)

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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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Designs of
Persia upon
Herat, 1836.
1962
The Russian position in Persia was greatly superior to the Britisli:
it was that of an immediately neighbouring and essentially military
which had lately crushed Persia in armed conflict and had dictated
of peace. Nevertheless Persia did not readily comply with every Russian
demand; and the appointment of Russian Consuls in Persia under tlie
Treaty of Turkmanchai had been for sometime successfully resisted.
Russia never failed to profess deep consideration for the interests of
Persia; but her policy, after the appointment of Count Simonicli to
represent Russia at Tehran in 18B3, seemed to be directed to undermin
ing such little power as Persia still possessed. The Persian Prime
Minister, Haji Mirza Aghasi has generally been credited by British
authors, perhaps unfairly, with Russian proclivities; and there is some
reason to think that Manuchehr Khan, who was appointed Governor of
^Arabistan in 1839 through Russian influence and who was visited in his
camp in the Bakhtiyari country in 1841 by Baron de Bode, the First
Secretary of the Russian Legation, was attached to the Russian interest.
It will be remembered that Muhammad Shah before his accession
had, as Muhammed Mirza, conducted operations against Herat in 1833
and obtained from Kamran, the Afghan ruler of that province, a promise
of tribute. The tribute was never paid; and the Shah, apart from an
absurd claim which he now advanced to possession of the whole of
Afghanistan as far eastwards as Ghazni, had various other causes of
disagreement with the Government of Herat, among which was recent
interference by them in the disputed frontier district of Sistan. On the
whole, however, the intentions of Muhammed Shah with reference to
Afghanistan appear to have been ambitious rather than moderate,
aggressive rather than justifiable.
At length, in the summer of 1836, the Shah set his army in potion
towards the east, ill-success in some preliminary operations against the
Turkomans of Astrabad caused him, however, to postpone his
against Herat until the following year.
Persian expedition against Herat, 1837-1838.
Course of the An invasion of Sistan by Kamran of Herat in the summer of
-L Grsisn
military having in the meanwhile added fuel to the fire of his resentment
a^ainsfc 0nS Muhammad Shah in the autumn of that year took the field in person ^
Herat, 1837- an army of 1,500 cavalry and 8,000 infantry. Thirty guns, escorted by

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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:

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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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