IOR/L/PS/20/C236

The volume is J A Saldanha [Jerome Antony Saldanha], Précis of Turkish Arabia Affairs. 1801-1905 (Simla: G C Press [Government Central Press], 1906).

The volume is a précis of correspondence from the records of the Government of India illustrating the history of Turkish Arabia and its relations with Britain during the period 1801-1905, with a retrospect into the preceding period, 1646-1800.

The volume is divided into four parts and twenty-one chapters:

• Part I (chapters I-III): Internal tribal and other affairs and external affairs in relation to Persia, the Wahabis [Wahhabis] and Maskat [Muscat] (folios 11-56);
• Part II (chapters IV-IX): British Agents and their rights (folios 57-93);
• Part III (chapters X-XV): British rights on Turkish Arabia rivers (folios 94-154);
• Part IV: (chapters XVI-XXI) Protection of British subjects and their property (folios 155-179).

There are two appendices:

• Appendix A, entitled 'Memorandum on the Kaab tribe and Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] by Sir H. Rawlinson, dated 6th January 1844' (folios 180-186);
• Appendix B, entitled 'Correspondence about the Kerbella Massacre, 1843, between the Foreign Office, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, the Envoy at Teheran [Tehran] and Lieutenant-Colonel Farrant' (folios 187-194).