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Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf [275v] (551/879)
The record is made up of 1 file (436 folios). It was created in 14 Oct 1891-Sep 1911. It was written in English, French and German. 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 gave three lusty cheers tor the Empresis
our mother :—B. Nanak Prasad Srivasto,
B.A., 3rd Master, Normal School; B. Shir
Dulare Bijpai; Mr. S. K. Banerji, BA ; Mr.
L. C. Sukia, B.A ; Mr. Alim Ullab, B A ;
Mr. Nurul Az z, M A ; Mr. H. N. Joshi, B.
A ; Professor Piarey Lal, B.A ; Mr. G.R.
Kayi, Vice-Principal; Mr. J. C. Kempster, A.
C. P., Principal. A sum of Rs. 96 1-2 was
collected, and has now been sent to the
Allahabad Bank for the War Fund.—I D.T.
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WESTERN INDIA.
ALLEGED POLICE TORTURS— A remark-
able charge of torture has been opened at
Munmar, in which a number of Railway Police
and other officials are alleged to be implicat-
ed. It is stated that a grain robbery occurred,
and two Bhils, suspected, were arrested.
These have since expired under very peculiar
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Simeon, chief constable of Nandgaon, Gun-
gadhar Luximon, Rowji Krishna and Daji
Gunput, constables in the Railway Police, are
charged with causing grievous hurt to Luxi-
mon Hanmanta, Bbika Hanmanta, and Kassi-
ram Munglia on the 7th January and to four
other individuals. Some highly sensational
evidence, it is said, will be forthcoming on the
hearing being resumed.— P.
THE Prevailing Scarcity.—A large and
representative public meeting was recently
held in the Mcrvi
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
Hall for the pur-
pose of relieving the deserving poor during
the prevailing scarcity. The Thakore Sabeb
of Morvi was in the chair, and there were
also present Prince Sukhadurji, Mr. White
State Eogineer, the Durbari officers, and
the principal merchants and leaders of the
various communities. The proceedings were
enlivened by a gramophone and the singing
of several poems. The Huzocr Personal
Assistant, in an eloquent speech, remarked
that, although the State had done a great
deal, yet there were a large number of
people whom the State charity could not
reach, and he appealed to the various caste
leaders to supply lists of persons who they
knew required aid, but who would rather,
die than beg. Before the meeting dispersed
a subscription-list was started, and it is satis
factory
An East India Company trading post.
to note that over Rs. 10,000 were
subscribed on the spot.—A. I.
Destructive Fire IN A Segregation
Camp.—A fire broke out on the 13th instant
in the segregation camp for “ Kharwas”
( native seamen) at Porebunder and resulted
in the total destruction of the whole camp
with all the belongings of its occupants. Two
or three persons are missing and are supposed
to have been burnt to death. The damage
is estimated at about Rs. 20,000. The unfor
tunate sufferers are entirely destitute ar i
steps have been taken by the “ Mah»v*“ 0
administer relief. Their case i” a P‘ 1
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THE Bombay FAMIS4, EUNppLord
Northcote has conterouted Rs. 2,000, to
the Bombay Famine Fund, and has addres
sed the following letter to Sir . George
Cotton, one of the Joint Secretaries
“ February 20th, 1900. Dear Sir George
Cotton—May I ask you to accept from
me the enclosed contribution towards t ie
Bombay Famine Fund ? I shall esteem it a
| great privilege to be allowed to associate
; myself with those who in this hour of trial
and distress have come forward to assist to
relieve the suffering amongst the natives o
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Presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
which has just accorded to my
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come —Believe me, yours, etc., Northcote.
Sir George Cotton has also rece rda co ‘I
bution from Lady Northcote, with the follow
ing letter from Mr. C. H. A. Hill, Private
Secretary to the Governor, of Bombay:
« Government House, 22nd February, 1900.
My dear Sir George Cotton,-1 am desired
by Lady Northcote to enclose, for acceptance
on behalf of the Indian Famine Relief Fund,
a cheque for Rs. 1,500 Her Ladyship is
so gladto have this opportunity of show-
inc some small measure of the sympathy
and sorrow she feels for the thousands
at present suffering throughout India. - .
The Port OFFICER OF Bombay—The
Trustees of the Port of Bombay hadtore
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The file contains miscellaneous papers, mostly printed publications, newspaper cuttings and photographs, relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
It includes a few items of correspondence, including letters to George Nathaniel Curzon relating to the Trans-Persian Railway, and Russian influence in Persia, and handwritten notes by Curzon on topics including arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Trans-Persian Railway.
The file also includes copies of printed publications relating to Persia, including: three pamphlets on Lake Urmi [Urmia] in North West Persia, by Robert Theodore Günther (two of which include duplicate copies of a map of the Lake Urmi Basin, Mss Eur F111/356, f 132); a paper entitled ‘Paper to be read before the Indian Section of the Society of Arts, Thursday, May 8th. 1902. The Past and Present Connection of England with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . By Thomas Jewell Bennett.’; and an article from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Volume 5, Number 8, August 1909) entitled ‘Some Persian Folk-lore Stories concerning the Ruins of Persepolis.’ by Captain Charles Monk Gibbon, Royal Irish Fusiliers.
It includes in addition: two issues of a French pamphlet entitled Bulletin de l’Union des Associations des Anciens Élèves des Écoles Supérieures de Commerce (Reconnues par l’État) [ Bulletin of the Union of Associations of Former Students of the Higher Schools of Commerce (Recognized by the State) ], dated 20 January and 5 February 1904, which include articles by M E Peschier on the Baghdad Railway; and a German bookseller’s catalogue entitled Indica et Iranica Teilweise aus der Bibliothek von Viggo Fausböll Professor der indischen Sprachen an der Universität Kopenhagen I. Literaturen und Sprachen Indiens und Persiens [ Indica et Iranica Partially from the Library of Viggo Fausboll Professor of Indian Languages at the University of Copenhagen. Literatures and Languages of India and Persia ].
Folios to 250 to 370 of the file mostly consist of cuttings relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from various newspapers and other publications, including: The Times , The Morning Post , The Spectator , The Civil & Military Gazette , The Times of India , and The Standard . The cuttings concern topics including: British interests in Persia; the Russian influence in Persia, including the Persian Government signing a concession to a Russian company for the construction of a cart-road between Kazvin, Resht and Enzeli, and Anglo-Russian rivalry in trade with Persia; the cholera epidemic in Persia; and the events of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11.
Folios 386 to 433 of the file consist of black and white photographs, including:
- Three photographs in an envelope entitled ‘Photos of Koweit [Kuwait]’, of Mabarak-bin-Subah [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], Shaikh of Kuwait, and his youngest son Naser (f 387), the foreshore of Koweit (f 388), and the residence of the Shaikh of Koweit (f 389)
- Two photographs in an envelope labelled ‘Photos by Parkin (assistant at Brit[ish] Resid[ency] Bushire / of Koweit Muscat. Bushire. Sent to me by Col[onel] Meade. April 1899.’ of Seyed Faisal bin Turki [Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat (f 392), and Seyed Mohamed bin Turki, half-brother of the Sultan of Muscat (f 391)
- A set of photographs of the following: the South entrance of the Governor’s house, Bushire (f 395); the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and British Consulate, Muskat [Muscat] (f 396); the watch tower on Samana (f 397); Major and Mrs Leigh in Camp in Samana (f 398); Major and Mrs Leigh and Lieutenant Creagh [possibly George Washington Brazier-Creagh] at Mastar [Māster, Persia] (f 399); entrance of Muskat Harbour (f 400); town of Muskat from the harbour (f 401); Fort Jelali, Muskat (f 402); Fort Mahrani [Fort Al-Mirani], Muscat (f 403); and the British Vice Consulate at Mohamerah [Khorramshahr] (f 404)
- Printed images of the following: the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Manamah, Bahrain (f 407); Shaikh Khaz’ al of Muhammareh [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] (f 408); the view at Haz’-adh-Dhabi, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f 409); salt rocks on Qishm Island near Namakdan (f 410); the Hindiyan River near Zaidan (f 411); a parade of British and Persian troops at Rishehr, 1905 (f 412); two views of Muhammerah Town (f 413); a creek near Basrah [Basra] from the Shatt-al-’Arab (f 414); a crowd at Ras-al-Khaimah (f 415); the Foreshore, Kuwait (f 416); the Hanaini well, Bahrain Island (f 417); ancient tumuli, Bahrain Island (f 418); Kumzar (f 419); Lingeh (f 420); the Tis Valley in Persian Makran (f 421); the West end of Masqat Town [Muscat Town] with the Sultan’s Palace and Fort Mirani (f 422); and the Eastern end of Masqat Town, with the British Consulate on the left, and the Sultan’s palace on the right (f 423).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (436 folios)
- Arrangement
The folios from folio 4 to folio 251 are arranged in rough chronological order. The newspaper cuttings are mostly between folios 249 and 359, and the photographs are at the rear of the file (folios 386 to 433).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 436; 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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- Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf
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- 251r:251v, 253r:253v:264v, 269r:269v, 271r:271v, 275r:276v, 298r:298v, 316r:316v, 322r:322v, 330r:330v, 343r:345v, 348r:349v, 353r:354v, 356r:360v
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