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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [2454] (971/1262)
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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not as a sub-office but as a branch office ; it is authorised^ however, to
transact British postal order and Indian money order business through
the head office at Karachi.
The post office at Gwadar was established on the 12th of April 1868 ;
and has undergone many vicissitudes of management; before its establish
ment postal work had been carried on in an informal way by the Assist
ant
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.
posted to Gwadar in 1863, who received mails made
up by the Karachi and Masqat offices and in return made up mails for
those offices.
The G-wadar post office was at first worked as a sub-office by
departmental
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
and occupied a separate shed; but in 1873-74 the
management was made over to the Indo-European Telegraph Department,
the duties of postmaster being thereafter performed by one of the
telegraph clerks and the office itself being transferred to a room in the
telegraph buildings. This- arrangement only lasted a year, for the
unhealthiness of Gwadar necessitated frequent transfers of the telegraph
clerks, and the postal work suffered from the repeated changes of
personnel.
In 1884, however, the working of the office was re-transferred to the
Indo-Luropean Telegraph Department, with whom it remained until the
abolition of the sub-post a telegraph station in 1893 on account of its
unhealthiness ; a sub-postmaster from India then took charge.
On the 5th of April 1895 telegraphic communication by land line
having meanwhile been re-established at Gwadar, a combined post and
telegraph sub-office which had existed on an experimental footing since
October 1894, was made permanent, and this office still remains. Owing to
the insalubrity of the station and the frequent illness or absence of the
individual in charge it was found necessary, in 1899, to revise the terms
of the appointment in such a manner as to improve the pay of acting
substitutes,
, Duty is not levied at Gwadar on parcels addressed to employes of the
British Government; but it is collected on all other parcels by the
customs officials of the Sultan of 'Oman.
Political and semi-political questions connected with the
Indian offices in Persia, 1864-1807.
♦/e, who hi
Until 1871, thejyear in which Persia established a postal system of ^^nand
her own, there were no post offices at all in the interior of Persia, nor any, ^
except those maintained by the Indian Government, upon the Persian . a cc
coast. The British Legation at Tehran and the British Agencies at ^ had ag
Isfahan and Shiraz, however, discharged some of the functions of post ! member
offices by collecting letters for despatch to Bushehr and India, and by ! e ^ of §
distributing letters, received from or through the Bushehr office, for the 5rc ^nge of c
benefit of British officials and subjects and a few other persons—including ^ of I n
Persian officials—known to and favoured by the British authorities.
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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:
- 'Appendix A: Meteorology and Health in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2205-2211);
- 'Appendix B: Geology of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2212-2219);
- 'Appendix C: The Pearl and Mother-of-Pearl Fisheries of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2220-2293);
- 'Appendix D: Date Production and the Date Trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2294-2307);
- 'Appendix E: Fisheries of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2308-2318);
- 'Appendix F: Sailing Craft of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2319-2332);
- 'Appendix G: Transport Animals and Livestock of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2333-2348);
- 'Appendix H: Religions and Sects of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2349-2385);
- 'Appendix I: Western Christianity and Missions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2386-2399);
- 'Appendix J: The Telegraphs of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in their relation to the Telegraph Systems of Persia and Turkey' (pages 2400-2438);
- 'Appendix K: Mail Communications and the Indian Post Office in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2439-2474);
- 'Appendix L: The Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2475-2516);
- 'Appendix M: Epidemics and Sanitary Organization in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (pages 2517-2555);
- 'Appendix N: The Arms and Ammunition Traffic in the Gulfs of Persia and ’Omān' (pages 2556-2593);
- 'Appendix O: The Imperial Persian Customs' (pages 2594-2625);
- 'Appendix P: Cruise of His Excellency Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. [1903]' (pages 2626-2662);
- 'Appendix Q: British and Foreign Diplomatic Political; and Consular Representation in the Countries Bordering on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' (pages 2663-2699);
- 'Appendix R: Book References' (pages 2700-2736)
- 'Appendix S: Explanation of the System of Transliteration' (pages 2737-2741).
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:130, 1625:2742, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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