'Annual Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the Year 1874-75.'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Annual Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the Year 1874-75.'
- Creator:
- Author: Political Resident, Persian Gulf
Author: Political Agent and Consul, Muscat
Author: Uncovenanted Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf - Date:
- 1875/1875
- Description:
- Abstract: Annual Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the Year 1874-75, printed at the Foreign Department Press, Calcutta, 1875.The report consists of a number of subsections, as follows:An administration report by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, with notes on personnel changes, Royal Navy vessels serving in the region,disturbances on land, The Maritime Truce, weather and winds, Bahrein [Bahrain], the coast from Kutr (Guttur) [Qatar] to the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al ʻArab], the Persian coast, the town and district of Bushire, postal services, and the slave trade (folios 49-52);A report on trade, also written by Ross (signed and dated 18 June 1875) (folios 51-52);Twenty-three tables and statements of trade statistics and data, including a memorandum on the opium trade, written by George Lucas, Uncovenanted Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 25 January 1875 (folios 52-63);A memorandum on the trade of Muscat, with six accompanying tables of trade statistics and data, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Miles Barrett, Political Agent and Consul at Muscat (folios 63-69).Physical description: The report is arranged in sub-sections, those relating to the Bushire Residency appearing first, those related to the Political Agency at Muscat appearing second. There is a table of contents (folio 48) that gives page references.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Agriculture
Trade (practice)
Meteorological data
Opium trade - Geographic region:
- Persian Gulf
Muscat - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100023902051.0x000002_ar
81055/vdc_100023902051.0x000002_en
IOR/V/10/680, ff 47-69
IOR/V/10/680, ff 47-69