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File 5184/1913 Persian Gulf: status of Bushire Residency [87v] (179/390)
The record is made up of 1 volume (191 folios). It was created in 1913-1931. 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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7 Bushire is a failing place and will in a few years be the port for Shiraz only
and little more than a village. Only to-day the Governor of the Gulf Ports told me
that in Perisan Official eyes the Bushire Governorship was steadily losing its im
portance.
With the development of the Railway Muhammerah with Khor Musa will be
the centre of the traffic.
8. At Bushire there are no Persians and there are no Arabs, there are no politics
and an officer learns as little m his daily life about either Persia or Arabia as he would
jf P 0 wore m Karachi. X, who personally have been accustomed to constant con
tact with Persians, find that living at Sabzabad seven miles from Bushire, I do not
see an Arab or a Persian once in a month and I ceased to be surprised that Bushire
Officials have been unable to speak the language. Even with the officers who live
in Bushire itself the situation is much the same. Persian and Bushiries themselves
are a different race and the few Persian Officials in the place mix very little with any
one else.
9. The place is then an island cut off from all knowledge of Persia and its poli
tics and is useless to me for any knowledge of Arabs or Arab matters. Its sole ad
vantage is that it is fairly central for visiting the other places in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
an advantage which is in actual fact when examined so slight as hardly to count,
since the ships lie at such a distance from the harbour.
10. But not the least of the disadvantages of the place is its unhealthiness.
The first complaint I received on taking over this appointment was the difficulty of
obtaining sanitary houses for the clerks and the fact that all of them suffered very
badly from fever in consequence, a fact borne out by this hot weather when my
office has been depleted by sickness.
11. It has been our experience of 100 years in the Gulf that, until we pro
vide our own house accommodation, men sicken. Our experience with Consuls at
Muscat and Bandar Abbas is that Europeans not only sicken but die in these cir
cumstances.
Thus if we remain at Bushire it will be necessary to supply house accommoda
tion for the clerical establishment.
12. But I consider that our organisation would not only be better but more
economical if we removed from Bushire. With the building of the railway the centre
of gravity of the Gulf will move to the Muhammerah area which is already in the
centre of activity of the Anglo Persian Oil Company. Our interests in Bushire are
small—-m fact I am unable to suggest any interest existing—and the weight of a
Consul-General is wasted in the Muhammerah-Ahwaz area our interests are great
or wi 1 day by day become greater. At present the Consul is completely over
shadowed politically by the wealthier members of the Anglo Persian Oil Com-
j • ^ or P^sian eye, for the Governor General who is now
established m Ahwaz, for the Persian Official in general, is bad. We need a
onsu enera o compete with the situation and we need an establishment such as
t£e Kesident necessarily maintains for his position on the Arab coast to maintain
e r ^ s P^ 1 or e Government which is in the East so important a matter
an establishment which exists but counts for nothing at Bushire.
rharqpfo^ Ut u°T r n ^ u ^ amm erah and the Oil Fields is mainly Indian in
man win lf nd 1 1 6 a ™niadverted on the anomaly of specially sending a
a nL - G n ° k “ < ’ wled f e ° f the Mian language and Indian Laws and customs to
same time w T 18 re 1 uired in most °f the work he does, when at the
nested speclall y trained men available for the task—the work con-
Politienl rtono t nropean employees can also be better done by an officer of the
Political Department, since they come under the convenient Indian code.
VicedWlTJ 16 at T P resen * a Consul and a Vice-Consul at Ahwaz: A Consul,
Shiraz has onnnppf' 11 n . 181 L^ r 5 > :^ onsu ^ at Shiraz. Such work as may exist at
Consul Shiraz w}i' 0 L rT U8 ^ ire an d I do not think I have seen a despatch of the
WndufSthafpo^ 8 ^ mentl ° n Bushire - its ~work is entirely
Teleerank Deri Jri-nf '''ally no British subjects at Shiraz except the Bank and the
g ph De P artmen t and it is obvious that we do not require three whole time
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The volume focuses on two main topics. The first is the status 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. at Bushire: a proposal to raise its status to a first class 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. in 1915 (see folios 152-58) and subsequent proposals to reduce its status back to a second class 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. in 1926 (see folios 90-130). The second topic is the appointment of new staff to 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. : a Treasury Officer (folios 169-190 and 133-51), a Personal Assistant to the 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. (folios 54-89), a Stenographer (folios 48-53), and a Cypher Clerk (folios 5-47). It includes details on the salaries and allowances of these appointments, and of proposed revisions. A copy of The Fundamental Rules, 1922 outlines the pay, terms, and conditions for officers employed by the Government of India; see folios 103-25.
The principal correspondents are as follows: the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. , the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, the Viceroy of India, the Secretary of State for India, the Under Secretary of State for India, the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and officials of the 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. and the Foreign Office.
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The papers in the volume are arranged loosely in reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 193; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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