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‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the years 1876-77.’ [58v] (115/125)
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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10^ 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.
with any other class, owing- probably to their having become gradually
absorbed into the Arab race; the slaves generally imported from Abys
sinia being- o£ the female sex, their progeny by their Arab masters, as in
the case of other slaves, has been considered Arab, although as a race it
ought to be considered distinct from the real and original Arab stock
owing to certain peculiarities of constitution and physcial appearances.
A few Nubians too form a part of the fixed population of Muscat. The
Sedee or Negro, although hardy and capable of undergoing a great
amount of exertion, is characterised by the same frivolous nature and
lightness of heart as everywhere else. Generally engaged in menial
occupations and as laborers and workmen, the men seem to maintain a
good state of health up to the age of about 40, when the decay of both
physical and mental power seems to be rapid and out of all proportion
to the previously flourishing condition.
The women, to whose lot generally falls the easier portion of domestic
work, are less subject to disease. Chronic muscular and articular rheuma
tism seems to be a common complaint with the Negroes after a certain
age; this may be attributed partly to their being more exposed than any
other class to the sudden changes of weather, and amongst men prin
cipally to gonorrhoea. The Abyssinian, naturally more delicate and of
the same low degree of physical and nervous staminas in his own native
country, is less able to withstand the effects of climate and disease than
his neiyliboui the Scdee. lioth men and women, but the latter more
paiticulaily, seem to have dormant in them from an early age, those
conditions ofc blood, which under the influence of any exciting cause,
such as an exposuie to sudden changes of weather, imperfect ventilation
of dwellings, or mental shock or grief, especially as the result of bad
tieatment from masters and others of whom thev may be very fond,
give rise to phthisis pulmonalis and other tuberculous diseases.
The mixed lace, composed principally of the different degrees of
admixtme between the Arab and the Negro, and the Arab and the Abys
sinian, forms a considerable class, although not considered by the Arabs as
essentially distinct from themselves. Their number may be supposed to
exceed lo thousand. The Arab Negro, although he inherits a portion
of the physical vigour and hardihood of his mother, is a weaker being,
and is more subject to disease. The Arab Abyssinian, whose regularity
o ca uies am anguid expression of countenance betray the Abyssinian
blood, would seem to be peculiarly liable to phthisis pulmonalis, which
m his case is generally of a chronic nature, and extends over years. He
is both physically and mentally weaker than either of his parents,
and his progeny seems to be short-lived, rarely extending beyond the
taLrplace 01 ^ eneratl01 b unless fresh admixture with Arab blood
PvnPoTpd S A ff elem ® nt is re markably small, which is as might be
expected under the existing social and domestic customs. The race is
bung giadually absorbed by the mixed race, owing to the easy means
of slave concubinage and the WiHmnnTr u i y ^ ^
the Great Arab prophet The town a L ' t 1, ' od 1 f t ' sa | nctl< > n « d V
T5,AvaK h t , Aiab is physically weaker than the
_ , l, t |' superior to the latter.' The town Arabs
deal ^ r, i ^ a """% -PPea-ance, and retain a good
deal ol the ongmal physical power of endnranee possessed by the Arab
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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
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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.
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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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- front, front-i, 2v:62v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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