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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [92] (235/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. It was written in English. 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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many native merchants would settle on an island under British protection,
that the new station would become the main centre of trade between
Masqat and Basrah, and that the petty chiefs of the mainland, instead of
charging import duties of 16 or 17 per cent, on British trade, would
compete against one another to attract it. Tn the opinion of the Agent ft
force of two ships and 300 men would be sufficient to cover the operation
of transfer, and he thought there was every reason to expect that the
customs receipts would be large enough to defray the expenses of any
military garrison that might be required. The Bombay authorities were
averse from this scheme, but they seem to have called for reports on the
islands of Hanjam and Bahrain, and these were furnished in the autumn of
the same year by Mr. AVood, the Agent at Bandar Abbas, who evidently
disapproved of both places and was himself inclined to recommend the
acquisition of a small existing fort on the south-eastern corner of Qiehm
Island under a grant from the Shah or from the Khan of Lar. A few
days later Mr. Wood, with the instability of whose character we shall
become better acquainted hereafter, wrote to Bombay deprecating the
proposed transfer altogether on the ground that the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
at Bandar
'Abbas was perfectly safe, and that removal might lead to a rapture with
the Persians and give an advantage to the Dutch. He had lost sight,
apparently, of the inconvenience of extortions by local governors.
Mr. Wood's arguments, which agreed with their own inclinations, seem
to have satisfied the President and his Council at Bombay that no steps
need be taken ; and the question of removal slumbered until 1/60, when it
was revived, probably by the success of the Dutch settlement founded
on Kharag in 1753, by the capture and destruction of the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
at Bandar 'Abbas by the French in 1759, and by the growing insolence
of the local chiefs near Bandar 'Abbas. A report on the feasibility of
obtaining another site having been required by the
Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
authorities
from the Agent, the commandant of the Hormuz fort was interviewed by
the latter, accompanied by a Captain Baillie, in the autumn of 1760;
but the Persian official, though he agreed to a British settlement being
formed on the island, could not be induced even by a bribe to surrender
the fort, and the prospects of obtaining it otherwise, whether by force or
under a grant from the Khan of Lar, also appeared doubtful. 1 he Agent
moreover considered that, even apart from those obstacles, Hormuz was
not an eligible,place, for supplies were non-existent, water scarce, and the
fort and buildings so ruinous that it would cost Rs. 80,000 to put them in
repair.
The President and Council at Bombay, upon receiving the Agent s
report, pointed out that he had unduly restricted his enquiries, for what
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) 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 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
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Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to 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 annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: 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. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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