‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1882-83.’ [422r] (30/166)
The record is made up of 1 volume (79 folios). It was created in 1883. 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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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 1882-83. 27
ment of Seyyid Sa^eed actively, and vessels of war were sent to Muscat
with this object.
In 1830 Seyyid Sa'eed returned to Muscat and at once proceeded
against his nephew Hamood, but was unable to reduce Sohar and was
obliged to conclude a treaty with Hamood, by which Sohar and some
other districts were made over to the latter, who agreed to pay a yearly
tribute of 8,000 German crowns.
Early in 1831, however, Seyyid Sa'eed again attacked Hamood-bin-
Azzan and invested Sohar. This campaign also resulted in disastrous
failure, and, after having been obliged to renew the treaty of peace
on nearly the same terms as before, Sa^eed returned to Muscat.
Meantime Seyyid Hilal had been released, and his appanage of
Soweyk restored to him.
In 1832, Seyyid Sa'eed once more sailed for Zanzibar, leaving his
son Hilal in charge of Muscat. Shortly after Su'ood-bin-Ali, another
cousin, who was Wali of Burka, seized Hilal, but released him to
ransom.
At this juncture the Jowasim chief of Rds-el-Khaimah seized Khor
Fakan and a strip of territory on the Batinah coast, which has since
then remained in the hands of the Jowasim.
In 1832 Seyyid Sa'eed returned from Zanzibar, and Su'ood-bin-Ali
was transferred to Rastak.
On the Seyyid's leaving again for Africa, he appointed his son
Thoweynee to act for him.
In the year 1833, the Wahabees menaced Muscat, and it was agreed
that the Muscat Government should pay them a tribute of 5,000
German crowns per annum.
During the following few years, there were continual struggles
between Seyyid Sa'eed and his representatives, on the one hand, and
Hamood-bin-Azzan, on the other, Hastak passing into the hands of the
latter. An attempt was at one time made to set up Hamood as " Imam,"
but, after finally declining the office, Hamood retired for a time from
public life, leaving his son Seyf in charge of Sohar. This youth, having
thrown off his father's authority, was, in 1819, murdered at the instiga
tion of Hamood, who resumed commaud of Sohar. Eventually Hamood
was captured by Thoweynee-bin Sa'eed and died in captivity at Muscat.
A brother of Hamood, however, Keis bin-Azzan, got possession of
Sohar and held it against Thoweynee. On the return of Seyyid Sa'eed
from Zanzibar he attacked Keis and ousted him from Sohar, conferring
on him instead the fort of Rastak. Seyyid Sa'eed then appointed his
son Toorkee, present Sultan of Muscat, Wali of Sohar.
In 1852 'Abdullah, son of the Wahabee Ameer Feysal, threatened
the Batinah coast, and the Muscat Government was compelled to agree
to pay a tribute of 1 2,( 00 dollars a year, besides arrears. The Wahabees
on this occasion agreed to render assistance to the Muscat Government
in case of need.
In 1852 Seyyid Sa'eed's officers were ejected from Bunder 'Abbas,
Kishm, &e,, which Muscat had held in lease from Fersia for about a ceu-
tury, by the Persians, and Seyyid Sa'eed, hastily returning from Zanzibar,
pent a force to Bunder 'Abbas, but he was obliged to patch up an
arrangement with the Persians by which he received the lease of the
districts on much more unfavourable terms than before.
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Administration report for 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. and Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the year 1882-83, by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, 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. . The report was published by Authority, by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing in India, Calcutta [Kolkata] in 1883. A copy of a letter from Ross to the Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department), dated 17 July 1883, is included in the report (folio 409), the original of which submitted the report to Government, under the following headings:
Part 1 (General Report), written by Ross (folios 410-17), containing summaries of local political affairs, and incidents or events of particular note for: Oman; the Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Nejd, El-Hasa [Al-Hasa] and El-Katr [Qatar]; Fárs; Persian Arabistan; Persian Beloochistan [Baluchistan]; and Bassidore. The general report also contains summaries on British naval movements in the Gulf for the year; changes in official personnel; and the Bushire observatory. Appendix A contains tabulated and graphical meteorological data for the year, supplied by the Bushire observatory. Appendix B is a genealogical table for the Shaikhs of Bahrain, from 1783 to the present day. Appendix C is a complete list of the Persian telegraph lines and stations, recorded in June 1883, with the length of each line given in kilometres.
Part 2 (Administration Report of the Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the year 1882-83), submitted by Major Edward Mockler, 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, dated 10 May 1882 (folios 417-23), containing a summary of affairs at Muscat, as well as changes to British official personnel, and a brief report on the slave trade. An appendix contains an outline of the history of Oman from 1728 to 1883, written by Ross and dated January 1883.
Part 3 (Report on Trade for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for 1882), submitted by Ross (folios 423-78), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade, and followed by an appendix containing tabulated data on trade, including data on imports and exports into and out of the Gulf ports of Bushire, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], Bahrain and the Arab (Oman) coast. The appendix also includes data on opium shipments for the year from Bushire and Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], and British and foreign shipping at Bushire. An index to the trade tables can be found at folios 424-25.
Part 4 (Trade at Muscat), submitted by Mockler, dated 6 June 1883 (folios 320-28), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade at Muscat, and an appendix containing tabulated data on imports and exports at Muscat (listed by commodity), value and description of goods, and the nationality and average tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat.
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- 1 volume (79 folios)
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The report is arranged into a number of parts and sections, with tabulated statistical data following each part in a separate appendix.
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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 folio 408 and ends on folio 487.
Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- ‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1882-83.’
- Pages
- 407v:489v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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