PZ 2865/40 'Note on the India Office and the Persian Gulf areas' [‎2v] (4/12)

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Persia ( jrobably less important than the danger or an
advance through Afghanistan), and in the protection of
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s installation in S.W.
Persia.
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Since the last war the Arab coast
of the Gulf has acquired great importance as a source- of
oil and as the strategic and commercial air route to India,
The Political j.esident, Lt.Col. Prior, (who is also Consul
General at Bushire, in South Persia, where his headquarters
are) and the several Political Agents (at iCoweit, Bahrein,
uscat and - a war-time appointment - on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. )
are drawn from the Indian Political Service The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. , and expenditure
is borne by the Government of India (except for a half share
of the cost 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. and the Kowelt Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. which is
borne by the foreign Office). 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. , working as
need be in consultation with the Foreign Office and other
interested Departments, is the Department responsible for the
conduct of relations with the Arab States of the Gulf.
These States consist of (a) Koweit , occupying a
strategic position at the head of the Gulf between Iraq
and Saudi Arabia; (b) Bahrein , a group of islands half-way
down off the Hasa coast (a part of Saudi Arabia); (c) Qatar ,
a promontory south of Bahrein; (d) the seven petty Sheikdoms of
the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ( so called from the maritime truce
imposed in 1B20 by the iast India Company on the pirate
chieftains of this district) whose names, in order eastwards
from Qatar, are - Abu Dhabi, Dibai, Sharjah, Ajman, Urnm al
Qaiwain, Has al Khairnah and Kalba; and (e) Muscat , a coastal
fringe of territory extending from the tip of the peninsula
at the mouth of the Gulf as far as the Aden Protectorate (the
Hadhramaut). With the exception of Muscat all these States
are/
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