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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎1988] (505/1262)

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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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1988
Grave insult Worse was to come. The undefined relations existing between
Admiral Sir Britain and Persia, bordering as they did on a state of declared enmity,
atMshel^ Were * siic k as a Persian provincial governor could hardly be expected
isth March to understand; and the British occupation of Kharag doubtless appeared
1839, j oca | officials in the light of a menace calling for a defiant
answer.
On the 23rd March 1839, Eear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, tlie
I^aval Commander-in-Chief in India, then visiting the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
made an official return call on Mirza Asad Ullah, the Persian Governor
of Bushehr. The Admiral was accompanied by Captain Hennell^ tlie
Resident, by Commodore Brucks, I.N., and by the commanders of
H.M.S. f ^Wellesley and of the Indian Navy vessels "Clive,"
■ ( Elphinstone, ^ and " Emily.^ The interview passed off well not
withstanding a previous altercation at the 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. , until the Admiral
mentioned that the supplies from shore for himself and his ship had been
stopped that day, and pointed out that such action, unless it were
due to some accidental omission on his own part to comply with a
regulation of the port, was contrary to the custom of civilised nations
when at peace. The Governor pretended, in reply, that there was a
practice of submitting a list of supplies to be sent on board ships^
which had not been followed in the present instance; but this excuse was
immediately disposed of by Captain Hennell, who stated absolutely, froni
long experience of Bushehr, that no usage of supplying a list of articles
to be embarked existed in regard to British ships of war, whether of the
Royal or Indian 4 Navy, and that the first attempt to establish one had
been made in connection with his own baggage just a fortnight before,
but was successfully resisted. The Governor then proceeded to say that
it was against local regulations for ships' boats to touch or leave shore
anywhere except at the landing stage in Bushehr town, and that direct
communication between ships and the British 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. was consequently
inadmissible. The Resident, on being appealed to by the Admiral, was
* The position of British subjects throughout Persia was at this tkie disagreeable i
everywhere they were regarded with distrust and dislike ; see, for example, Layard's
JSWty Adventures, Vol. I, page 229. Later the Persian suspicions of Britain
were deepened by the occupation of Kabul by troops from India, and a British
invasion of Persia by way of Afghanistan came to be feared. (Layard, Early Adven
tures, Vol. I, pages 262—263.) The Persians seem also to have dreaded that use
might be made of the refugee Persian princes who resided at Baghdad as British and
Turkish pensioners. (Mitford, Zand March, Vol. I, pages 344 - 345,)

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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)
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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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