Social networks <strong>and</strong> border conflicts 12114 Kelly, Brita<strong>in</strong> <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Persia</strong>n Gulf, pp. 295–6.15 Encl. of 20 June 1838, <strong>in</strong> No. 44, 7 Sept. 1838, FO 60/59.16 Hennell to McNeill, 21 Nov. 38, FO 248/85. A rescript from Faridun Mirza,Governor of Fars, specifically stated that the sale of w<strong>in</strong>e was forbidden <strong>in</strong> a Muslimcountry. See, 14 Dec. 1838, FO 248/85, on receipt of rescript.17 Hennell to the Government of India, 12 Dec. 1838, FO 248/85.18 No. 18, 8 Dec. 1839, FO 60/65,; see also Farman-Farma-yi Fars to MohammadShah <strong>in</strong> I. Safa’i, Yak sad sanad-i tarikhi (Tehran: Anjuman-i Tarikh, n.d.),pp. 37–8. Although the letter is dated Sha‘ban 1256/September-October 1840, itappears from the tone <strong>and</strong> content to have been written when he was Governorof Fars, i.e. <strong>in</strong> 1838–1839.19 Yapp, Strategies, p. 277.20 Ibid., p. 295.21 No. 35, 26 May 1839, FO 60/66.22 No. 42, 6 June 1839, FO 60/66.23 It was recorded <strong>in</strong> Hasan Fasa’i’s Farsnama-yi Nasiri that Shaikh Hasan, themujtahid of the ‘Usfur tribe, his nephew Shaikh Salman <strong>and</strong> Baqir Khan hadrisen <strong>in</strong> rebellion with the <strong>in</strong>habitants of Bushehr <strong>and</strong> expelled the British regularsoldiers <strong>and</strong> Resident from the town. See H. Busse’s translation, History of<strong>Persia</strong> (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), p. 260.24 Encl. 2 <strong>in</strong> No. 13, 7 April 1840, FO 60/73.25 Robertson to Sheil, 21 June 1842, FO 248/108.26 Encl. <strong>in</strong> No. 72, 17 Oct. 1839, FO 60/67.27 Busse, History of <strong>Persia</strong>, p. 266.28 Encl. of 8 June 1839 <strong>in</strong> 10 July 1839 FO 60/66.29 P. Mojtahed-Zadeh, Small Players of the Great Game, (London: Routledge,2004), p. 65.30 No. 66, 28 Nov. 1838, FO 60/66.31 No. 69, 28 Nov. 1838, FO 60/60.32 Bonham to McNeill, 1 July 1839, <strong>in</strong> No. 51, 17 July 1839, FO 60/66.33 Bonham to McNeill, 25 Nov. 1841, FO 60/82.34 Yapp, Stategies, p. 105; R. Tapper, Frontier Nomads of Iran (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 190.35 Accord<strong>in</strong>g to Cunynghame, the Lezgis were warlike <strong>and</strong> their ma<strong>in</strong> centre wasBodlith near Avari <strong>in</strong> the Eastern Caucasus. A. A. Cunynghame, Travels <strong>in</strong> theEastern Caucasus (London: John Murray, 1872), p. 213. He adds that no womanwas allowed to rema<strong>in</strong> a widow for more than three months, so great was theshortage of the population <strong>in</strong> that area dur<strong>in</strong>g the wars with the Russians (p. 214).36 Tapper, Frontier Nomads, p. 149.37 Ibid., p. 168.38 Ibid., p. 190.39 No. 52, 5 Oct. 1838 <strong>and</strong> No. 61, 5 Nov. 1838, FO 60/59.40 No. 61, 5 Nov. 1838, FO 60/59.41 No. 42, 6 June 1839, FO 60/66. The Shah was not clear as to his <strong>in</strong>tentions <strong>in</strong>Khorasan, thereby arous<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>tense suspicions <strong>in</strong> the British.42 Encl. <strong>in</strong> No. 51, 17 July 1839, FO 60/66. The exact connection is not clear, buttheir support may well have arisen from sympathy for the struggle of Muslimsaga<strong>in</strong>st control by a Christian power. Certa<strong>in</strong>ly Islam bound the Lezgis to othertribes fight<strong>in</strong>g the Russians <strong>in</strong> the region, <strong>and</strong> perhaps to Shamil <strong>in</strong> Daghestan(who, however, is not named <strong>in</strong> the contemporary dispatches). Possibly also therewere economic l<strong>in</strong>ks through pasturalism, <strong>and</strong> even, on the frontier itself of l<strong>and</strong>ownership.It may be noted that the Lezgis had a reputation for legalism, <strong>and</strong> wouldtravel long distances to settle legal cases. Cunynghame, Eastern Caucasus, p. 215.43 No. 38, 2 June 1839, FO 60/66.
122 Vanessa Mart<strong>in</strong>44 No. 38, 2 June 1839, <strong>and</strong> No. 43, 6 June 1839, FO 60/66.45 Encl. of 8 June 1839 <strong>in</strong> No. 46, 21 June 1839, FO 60/66.46 No. 43, 6 June 1839, FO 60/66. See also No. 46, 21 June 1839, FO 60/66.47 No. 42, 24 Aug. 1840, FO 60/74.48 Encl. <strong>in</strong> No. 42, 24 Aug. 1840, FO 60/74; encl. <strong>in</strong> Hennell to Sheil, 25 May 1840,FO 248/99.49 For further examples see Vanessa Mart<strong>in</strong> <strong>and</strong> Morteza Nouraei, “The Karguzar<strong>and</strong> Disputes over Foreign Trade”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3,16/2 (2006): 1–13.50 M. E. Yapp, Strategies, p. 373. For an example of their efforts at an earlier stagesee correspondence of 8 June 1839 <strong>in</strong> 10 June 1839, FO 60/66.
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