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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1011] (1166/1782)
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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1011
Kelationa of
Kuwait with
Bahrain.
were no customs or other taxes, the revenue for public purposes consisting
of about §20,000 a year which was voluntarily contributed by merchants
and otheis; and lelig-ious toleration, extending even to Jews, was the rule.
Beyond the limits of the town the influence of the Shaikh reached
some 8 or 10 miles. Bedouins were not allowed to enter Kuwait armed.
Shaikh Subah, at his death in or about 1866, was succeeded by his eldest
son 'Abdullah.
The intervention of Shaikh Jabir of Kuwait in Bahrain affairs,
occasioned by the struggle there between Shaikhs 'Abdullah and
Muhammad of the ruling Al Khalifah family, is described at length in
the history of the Bahrain principality. Here it will be enough to recall
the facts that in August 1843 the Shaikh of Kuwait of his own motion,
but not without the approval of the British authorities, visited Bahrain
and tried, in vain, to reconcile the rivals ; that in 1S43 or 1844, at the
imminent risk of a collision with Shaikh Muhammad of Bahrain, which
in fact was only averted by the intervention of the British authorities,
be attempted, unsuccessfully, to provision the ex-Shaikh 'Abdullah's
fortress of Dammam, then invested by the Wahhabi forces on land and
blockaded by the fleet of Shaikh Muhammad at sea; that in 1844, after
the fall of Dammam, he harboured for a short time the fugitive Shaikh
'Abdullah at his town of Kuwait; and, finally, that he allowed the ex-
Shaikh to remain at Kuwait from 1845 to 1846, during which period,,
as particularly requested by the British Resident at Bushehr, he was
eaieful to restrain his guest from the commission of maritime irregulari
ties. In 1869 Muhammad, an ex-Shaikh of Bahrain, was deported to
Kuwait, but he did not remain there Ion 0,
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At the epoch now under consideration, the attitude of the Kuwait Relations
Shaikh towards the Wahhabi power, hitherto that of a declared opponent withNvTd
or at best of a nominal and unwilling feudatory, became decidedly less
antagonistic. In 1^41 Abdullah-bin-Thanaiyan, a relative and competi
tor of Khalid, the de facto Wahhabi Amir, took refuge at Kuwait, where
he stayed for a short time only ; but before the end of the same year, on
Abdullah, who had meanwhile returned to Central Arabia, obtaining
the upper hand, Khalid in his turn sought and found an asylum
at Kuwait. In 1863 friendly relations existed between the Shaikh of
Kuwait and Faisal-bin-Turki, who then ruled Najd, but no tribute was
paid bv the former to the latter. In 1866, as we shall see further on, the
Wahhabi Amir 'Abdullah, who maintained an agent at Kuwait for
political purposes as his father too had clone even so early as 1851, was
piepared to assist the Shaikh in a quarrel which occurred between the
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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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