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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎2528] (1045/1262)

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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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2528
Opposition of
Great Britain
to the latter.
Partial
aoceptance
of the
Convention!
by Great
Britain and
Turkey.
Peculiar
features
of the
Conference.
Ratification
of the Con
vention by
Great
Britain and
Persia.
new sanitary posts were to be created at Muhammareli, Bushehr, Bandar
^Abbas and Gwadar on the Persian, and at Kuwait, Bahrain and Masqat
on the Arabian side.
This scheme was opposed by the British delegates on the grounds that
its necessity had not been justified ; that the numerous stations created
would be subject to at least four different governments ; that the
governments of Turkey and Persia would be unable, owing to distance,
to exercise effective control over the posts for which they were res
ponsible ; that the expense would be great and would fall almost
exclusively on British shipping ; and finally that trouble and delay, as
well as expense, would be entailed on British vessels. Special
exception was taken by the British Government to the detention of
ships at Fao or Muhammareh, at neither of which places was it possible
for the Basrah cargoes constituting the bulk of the trade to be
discharged or shipped,—operations, that it had hitherto been permissible
to carry out in quarantine at Basrah itself.
The objections of the British delegates however having been overruled,
a Convention in the sense explained above was adopted by the
Conference and was signed by the representative of the British Govern
ment on the 3rd of April 1894, subject to a declaration that Britain did
not accept such of the provisions as related to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
At the sixth sitting of the Conference the Turkish delegates had,
under instructions from the Porte, unexpectedly announced that a 5 days^
quarantine of observation would, no with standing the recommendations of
the Conference, be imposed on all Indian vessels with effect from the
date of their arrival at a Turkish port in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and the
signature of the Convention on behalf of Turkey was accompanied by a
declaration that the Porte accepted only those articles which were in
harmony with the sanitary regulations of the Ottoman Empire.
It is difficult to understand precisely in what manner or by whom
the Conference intended that the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. scheme should be carried
out, but its execution appears to have been left to the government of
Turkey in consultation with that of
'ersia.
and from Annexure IV
of the Convention it may be gathered, though the point is not absolutely
clear, that it was also the intention of the Conference to entrust the
management of all the sanitary stations in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to a
committee of the Board of Health at Constantinople. In the light of
later events it is interesting to observe that, in the course of the
discussions, the Austro-Hungarian delegates proposed that an Interna
tional Board of Health should be created at Tehran ; while the American
representatives suggested that an international quarantine station should
be brought into existence at the mouth of the Gulf near Ras Musandam !
neither of these proposals, however, was accepted by the Conference.
The Convention was ratified by Great Britain and Persia on the 20th
of June 1898, by Great Britain with the reservation mentioned above
relating to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; its duration was fixed at 5 years in the
first instance, but it was to be considered as tacitly renewed at the end
of that time, and at the expiration of each succeeding period of 5 years

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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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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎2528] (1045/1262), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023514765.0x00002b> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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