IOR/R/15/1/709

The volume contains printed copies of Persian Gulf Administration Reports. The Reports are incomplete (according to the introductory letters and lists of contents). Some of the Reports bear manuscript corrections. The following Reports are represented :

• Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the Year 1883-84 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1884);
• Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1884-85 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1885);
• Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1885-86 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1886);
• Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1886-87 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1887);
• Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1887-88 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1888);
• Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1888-89 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1889);
• Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1889-90 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1890);
• Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1890-91 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1891);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1891-92 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1892);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1892-93 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1893);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1893-94 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1894);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1894-95 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1895);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1895-96 (Simla: Government Central Printing Office, 1896);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1896-97 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1897);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1897-98 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1898);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1898-99 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1899);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1899-1900 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1900);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1900-1901 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1901);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1901-1902 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1902);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1902-1903 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1903);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1903-1904 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1904);
• Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1904-1905 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1906).

The Reports include a general summary by the Political Resident (covering the constituent agencies and consulates that made up the Residency, and topics such as the slave trade, piracy, the movements of Royal Navy ships, official appointments, and the weather); meteorological tables; separate reports on Muscat (also referred to as Maskat); reports on trade and commerce; and a number of appendices on special topics, such as supplementary notes on the care and culture of date trees and fruit (Report, 1883-84), historical sketch of the Portuguese in eastern Arabia (Report, 1884-85), notes on a tour through Oman and El-Dhahireh [Al Dhahirah] by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles (Report, 1885-86), notes on cholera in Persia (Report, 1889-90), report on the cholera epidemic in Maskat, Matrah, and Oman (Report, 1899-1900), and information on individuals and tribes.