"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٢‎٢] (١٧٨٢/٢٦٥)

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The trade in The Company's trade, and commereial arrangements in Turkish 'Iraq
Tuvkieh j (J |j described in the chapter on the history of that country.
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Establishments and general arrangements of the East India
Company in the Persian Gulf, 1722-63.
Organization
and nomen
clature.
Personnel.
During the first half of the 18th century the words a Agent" and
"Factor/' f< Agency" and "Factory" appear to have been somewhat
indiscriminately used to describe the Company's servants and stations in
the Persian Gulf and Persia; but by degrees the head of the Company's
interests in the whole of that region came to be known as a the Agent
and Bandar 'Abbas, being his headquarters, as " the Agency." The
Isfahan station, before its final closure, was frequently described as a
" Residency j " such also was the status of Basrah ; and, as both of these
places were subordinate to Bandar 'Abbas, we should perhaps under
stand that an "Agent", after about 1750 , corresponded with the
" Agent to the Governor-General" rather than with the ordinary
"Political Agent" of the present day. The Company's interests
in Kirman were represented sometimes by a European employe and
sometimes by a Linguist or native interpreter, and the station there
did uot belong to any particular class. The term " Honourable Com
pany," referring to the East India Company, was in Use in the Gulf as
early as 1737, or perhaps earlier; and the fact that the Company was
more than a society of merchants must have been recognized in 1762,
when the Shaikh of Bushehr urged that " an English Sarkar Factory
should be established at his port. That the distinction between " covenant
ed " or superior and other servants of the Company must have been
introduced before 1750 is shown by the following order issued by the
Bombay Presidency in that year : " And if the circumstances of their
" affairs at Spahaun absolutely requires a Covenant Servant to continue
"there some time longer, Mr. Dalrimple must be appointed to relieve
" Mr. Graves till such time as he can be recalled, for we would have no
" Covenant Servant reside there any longer than the necessity of those
' ill conducted affairs * may unavoidably require."
W ith regard to personnel we may remark on the large number of
Scotsmen among the Company's employes in the Gulf,— a feature distin
guishing this period from the last, which was mostly antecedent to the
'Apparently the inference is to Messrs. Pierson and Blandey's case—see pagt> 126 p 0 ^"