'Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1877-78.' [259v] (64/165)
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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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.
Table A.
No.
Approximate.
Diametre size
in 100 ths.
Value, single,
best Pearl.
Weight, each pearl.
Rt.
r
1
30
600
8 Pearls, 41* Chao, Bahrein.
400
10 Pearls, 33 Chao each.
2
29
300
These prices would be for picked pearls, very much over the
ordinary market rate.
*00
The best pearls can be then calculated at
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
80 per Chao,
o
3
28
and each single pearl bought separately would still be’ calculat-
£
ed by weight at that rate.
% O
In India ordinary pearls of unsorted colour, but sorted size,
4
27
are sold at about
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
60 per Chao. The Indian merchants
re-sort and sell at about 80 for the European market.
> 3
The “ divers” sell good and bad unsorted, and to give an idea of
^ —
5
25
the price, I take a “ Miscal” weight of the “ Ras ” at
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
1.6<X),
the Batan would then be
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
800, and the Dzel and all below
-C
H
6
24
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
200 per miscal.
The merchants buy at these rates, sort them, and sell at from
7
22
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
30 to 60 per Chao.
8
21
The “ Ras.”
9
20
10
18
The “Batan.”
11
15*
12
15
The “ Dzel."
13
13
a
All below are“Zir-i-Dzel.”_g>
14
12
15
11
0 >
16
10
g
'C
17
9
* The
18
8
19
7
20
6
21
6 *
‘
22
5
23
4*
L
; 24
4
WEIGHTS.
Akab scale (for unpicked pearls.)
100 Dukra=l Chao=4 Bombay Chaos.
330 Chao —1 Mi8cal=2 „ Miscals.
66 Hubbe=l Miscal = 6 Grains (English).
Bombay Scale.
100 Mezoor=l Dukra.
100 Dukra = 1 Chao.
24 Ruttee=l Miscal—6 Grains.
One Miscal, Meshed, (Arab diver’s measure) is equal to three Miscal, Bahrein, or six
Miscal, Bombay.
No. 1* No price can be given to give an idea of the value of pearls over this
weight and size. _ One pearl was found in 1867, weighing 2$ Miscals, near the Island of
Sheikh Shu aib in sixteen fathoms water. It was purchased by a merchant (Ibrahim bin
Yusuf) for Krans 16,(XX), sold for
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
80,000 or about £8,000 in Paris, and brought back
to India by a Bunneah to make an eye for an idol.
* Ihe merchants sell all by the Chao, except those that have passed through the 21st sieve ie., the three lowest numbers.
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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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- 'Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1877-78.'
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