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'Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1877-78.' [‎244r] (33/165)

The record is made up of 1 volume (81 folios). It was created in 1878. 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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AND MUSCAT POLITICAL AGENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. FOR THE YEAR 1877-78.
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at the same mound, to the British Museum, and they were pro
nounced to be in the Elamite character, amongst them—
(1.) Of Urtaki, King of Elam, B. C. U64.
(2.) Silkhak, King of Jura, B. C. 700.
(3.) Babylonian bricks of later periods.
In Oman Lieutenant-Colonel Miles has given an account of the
route between Sohar and Bereymi, and has collected materials for a
more complete map of that country than we now possess. Major
Mockler, 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. for the Mekran Coast, has made many
very interesting archaeological discoveries in that quarter, and has
succeeded in identifying beyond dispute many of the places mentioned
in arrian's account of Nearchus* voyage. This officer has compiled and
published a grammar of the Balooch language, “ facile princeps” of
the few others yet existing, and a work displaying much ability and
originality of thought. The intimate knowledge Major Mockler has
acquired of the people of Mekran and their language has enabled him
to obtain much rare and interesting information bearing on their
history and ethnography, and he is not without hope of clearing by
decisive evidence the question of the original home ol the Balooch.
However baffling such inquiries may prove, still
N ote< —River Kara-Aghach. —No district of precisely this name
having been known by European geographers hitherto, the derivation
of the name, as applied to the river, has been in doubt. The Persian
communication from Ur. Andreas that tbe lorm “ Karah-Aghaj” is correct,
and further that besides the primary meaning of “ Black wood” the term
also applies to the “ elm tree.” “ Sahra-i-Karah-Aghaj” may therefore
be rendered as “ Elm tree plain.”
Additional Note. —Since writing the preceding observations I
have been favoured with a very interesting communication from Dr.
Andrass, which I give in his own words, being responsible only for the
English rendering of the quotations from the Arabic authors.
Notes on the Kara-Aghach* River by Dr. F. C. Andreas.
The name of the Kara-Aghaeh River is explained by the people,
even without asking them, by “ Chob-i-Siyah, i.e } black wood, which is
* Note .— As the name of a locality Kara-Aghach is found in the sarhad of the Kashgai
near Dana.—F. C. A.
No endeavour is in vain ;
Our reward is in the doing,
And the rapture of pursuing
Is the prize the vanquished win.
(Sd.) E. C. Ross.
* Q. V.
map of Haji* Mirza Seyyid Hassan,
however, has a locality south-east of
^ghaj” s-I.pi 3,5 . I gather from a

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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 1877-78, published by Authority at the Foreign Department Press, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1878. The 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 Edward Charles Ross) 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 Ross to Alfred Comyn Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, dated 8 July 1878, which enclosed the submission of the original reports.

The report is organised in a number of sections and subsections, as follows:

Part I: General Report, signed by Ross, and arranged under subheadings as follows: Oman; Arab Coast; Bahrein [Bahrain]; Nejd [Najd]; Province of Fars and the Persian Coast and Islands; Bushire; Coast from Bushire to Lingah [Bandar Lengeh]; Lingah; Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas]; Persian-Baloochistan [Baluchistan] Coast; Bassidore [Bāsaʻīdū]; Establishments; Slave-Trade; Appendices (including meteorological tables, notes on the Kara Aghach River by Dr Friedrich Carl Andreas*, the route from Bushire to Lar and Shiraz, and the route from Lar to Shiraz, the Persian Post Office and Foreign Postage, and tables of Persian money and measurements).

Part II: Report on trade of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1877, signed by Ross and arranged under subheadings, as follows: Effects of late war on the trade; Steam communication; Grain harvest; Scarcity of coin; Opium; Pearl fisheries; Impediments to development of trade in Persia; and appendices (including notes on the pearling industry by Captain Edward Law Durand, notes on date palm cultivation by James Charles Edwards, and 31 tables of trade statistics covering imports/exports from/to the various ports and settlements of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and between the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and India).

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 1877-78, prepared by Miles and arranged under the following subheadings: Political; Official changes; Slave Traffic.

Part IV: Trade statistics for Muscat, prepared by Miles, and comprising of six tables covering imports, exports, and number and tonnage of vessels entering and leaving the port.

* Folio 246 - a map has been temporarily removed and replaced with a green sheet of paper noting its removal.

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1 volume (81 folios)
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The report is arranged into four parts (I-IV).

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Pagination: The report has a pagination system which uses numbers printed in the top-left corner of versos and top-right corner of rectos.

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English in Latin script
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