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‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the years 1876-77.’ [45v] (89/125)
The record is made up of 57 folios. It was created in 1877. 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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76 ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
POLITICAL
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.
Part III.
ADMINISTRATION REPORT OP THE POLITICAL
AGENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, MUSCAT
FOR THE YEAR 1876-77.
Political.—Ai the close of the last official year His Highness
Seyyid Toorkee, who had succeeded in re-establishing himself in power
was eng-ag-ed in negotiations with his brother, Seyyid Abdool Azeez, with
a view to the latter retiring from Oman on a suitable allowance, but all
the negotiations fell through, and His Highness Seyyid Abdool Azeez
who had come down to Kuriyat to meet the
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.
, and the Minis
ter, Seyyid Said returned to Semed, where he still resides. Early in the
year His Highness took the bold step of seizing three Sheikhs of the
Bu Hassan and Al ahibeh tribes who had become notorious for their
intngues, and were the cause of many of the disturbances and disorders
that had taken place of late, and confining them in the forts at Muscat.
is was done at the instigation and with the co-operation of the lead
ing Sheikhs of their own tribes, who, jealous of the growing authority
and importance of tlieir subordinates and rivals, were glad to seize the
opportunity of getting rid of them under the Sultan's name and re
sponsibility Hopes were entertained by many of His Highness^ well
wishers that this measure was the inauguration of a more vigorous line
ot policy than had hitherto characterized Seyyid Toorkee's reign, but
these hopes were unfortunately destined to be dispelled.
r 1 11 1 Co 1 1 ) 0 ?.! 1 Pri J eaux ^ w bo had been appointed to officiate for
to BnlS. 08 fo aS ? r ent ' l>ersian (,ulf ' visited Muscat
to Bushire, to make the acquaintance of His Highness Reyyid Toorkee
bi^S f 0W1 !q g """'n' ls H "g h ness moved up to Burka with Seyyid Bedr
bm Serf and a small detachment, in order to frustrate the schemes of
and^onrrison of tl" , f' s ', w , ho ha< J intriguing: with the Governor
d Allison of that tort to make it over to him. The Governor ot
Bin Hamed' G !v 6 ^ f « ^ , 0f the 0 ' d Beni Ruwe K 1 > Sheikh Seif
doubt Zt'lir H V, ® owe y k ' aad , it was soon ascertained beyond a
tee two L t. f, S t n 6 P r omptitude in the matter alone prevented
same time His Hi!^ ? 'f 0 .,"' 0 hands o£ Se ^ id Ibrahi «> At the
Ruweyeh garrison in the fort at Nakhl l""/ . of 1 dismissin ^ the Beni
terms with the inhabitants 'nd relcte; il W . B I Tr t0 ^ t" ^
meantime His Hio-hness S pwu I Ai i f a 7 a 1 Bel . ooeh £orce - In the
hope of recoverincrfliP f f \ ^ -l -^ zeez ^ having entertained the
theTeniTuwrel va wlrthe Seffia, ^' left r Seme<, imd l—edcd to
that tribe in his enterprise of «■<> ™PP«rt of
ioin him and ho wn« ™ u e Beni Ruweyeh however declined to
Hassan Wal^bTr 0 r ? tura t0 Semed - J '?n« the Bu
Sultan with the object of intinSktinff ^y Xe ^ eum S attitude against the
prisoners, but a firm stanrl L. •' ? Highness into releasing his
threat of expulsion from MuscatTlE 0011 ta a f d[nst them ' with the
was, however verv shoTflv movement subsided. The question
'on Ali, who 'tShe mXl up T'L "V ^ ^ ^
ness that he would be prepared to'ioin fJ a, ' d , mtlmated to Hls H, 8 ,h -
request for the release of the prisoners " ( n S V- ^'l 1081110 " lf his
Toorkee beinp-ereatlvannr#.} ■ r i ^ ere no t com P^ed with. Seyyid
. feB rcatl } apprehensive of losmg the support of Sheikh Saleh's
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Administration report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. and Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1876-77, published by Authority at the Foreign Department Press, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1877, and forming part of the Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department (no. 138). The administration report is based on reports sent by the Officiating Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel William Francis Prideaux) and the 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. at Muscat (Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles) to the Government of India. The report is preceded by a copy of a letter sent by Prideaux to Thomas Henry Thornton, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, dated 15 June 1877, which enclosed the submission of the original reports to the Government of India (folio 8).
The report is organised in a number of sections and subsections, as follows:
Part I: Administration Report for 1876-77 – General (folios 8-10) signed by Prideaux, and arranged under subheadings as follows: 1. Oman; Petty independent chiefdoms (2. Oman Coast); 3. Bahrain [referred to as Bahrein throughout]; 4. Nejd [Najd]; 5. Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū]; 6. Persian Coast; 7. Government of Fars; Bushire (Dashtee, Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], postal, judicial); Establishment (political, medical, naval); slave trade.
Part II: Administration Report for 1876-77 – Memorandum showing the number of Returns accompanying the Trade Report of 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (folios 11-45), comprising thirty statistical tables containing data on the import and export of commodities into and out of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. during the official year 1875-76. The tables contain data for Arabia, Persia and Turkey in Asia, and specifically data on vessels and trade at Bushire, Bandar-e ʻAbbās, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], Bahrain and the Arab coast. There is an index of the statistical tables on folio 11.
Part III: Administration report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat, for the year 1876-76 (folios 45-48), prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles, Her Britannic Majesty’s 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. and Consul at Muscat. The report is arranged under the following headings: political; resources and trade (production, agriculture, industries, fisheries, trade).
Part IV, prepared by Miles (folios 49-55) comprises six statistical tables containing trade data relating to Muscat: average tonnage of vessels entering and leaving the port of Muscat; imports and exports, listed by commodity; and contrasted statements on vessels and imported goods.
Part V, Medical Topography of Muscat (folios 55-62), by the Muscat Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Surgeon, Atmarim Sadashiv Jayakar. Jayakar’s report is arranged under the following headings: geology; climate; water supply; food; sanitation; population; dwellings and streets; prevailing diseases; malaria and malarial fevers; typhoid fever; smallpox and measles; cholera; dysentery; scurvy; rheumatism; phthisis pulmonalis; bronchitis; purumonia; organic diseases of the heart; dyspepsia, colic and diarrhoea; hoemorrhoides [haemorrhoids]; diseases of the liver; hypertrophy; diseases of the kidney and bladder; diseases of the brain and insanity; diseases of the eye; diseases of the skin; leprosy; ulcers; dracunculus; venereal diseases; syphilis.
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- 57 folios
- Arrangement
The report is arranged into five parts (I-V). Part I is arranged into numbered sections (1-7) and numbered paragraphs (1-35). Part II is arranged into numbered tables (1-30). Part III is arranged by subject headings and subheadings, part IV by lettered tables (A-F), and part V by suhheadings. There is a contents page at the front of the report (folios 6-7), which lists the report’s contents by part and major headings, and refers to the report’s internal pagination sequence.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which 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, on number 1, and ends on the last folio on number 62.
Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
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- ‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the years 1876-77.’
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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