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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919' [16v] (39/396)
The record is made up of 1 volume (194 folios). It was created in 1916-1920. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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22
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
ADMINISTRATION REPORT
over and helped to garrison the German house. They professed to be neutral
and loyal to their Goyernment until the order came for them to leave^ Kerman,
but then they definitely joined the Democratic rebels and went into open
mutiny.
Mr. Lecoffre was the head of the Department at the commencement of the
year and continued to work on his own
Ee\enue Department. lines. He attempted to revise the assess
ment of the tax on animals, which is une of the items of the General Agricul
tural Assessment and, because it was only one item, he seemed to consider that
his own decree was sufficient, though in a number of cases it meant nearly
doubling the total assessment payable. This naturally raised a storm, and
nearly all the villagers within a forty mile radius streamed into
bast
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
in the
Persian Telegraph office and remained there until their representations to
Tehran elicited orders for the restoration of the status quo. In June the
Minister telegraphed to His Majesty's Consul offering to recall Mr. Lecoffre
and to send a good man in his place. His Majesty's Consul gladly accepted
the offer and, after a very leisurely winding up of his official and private
affairs, Mr. Lecoffre departed for Tehran. He handed over charge to Mirza
Ismail Khan, a well-educated Tehrani with good financial abilities but without
sufficient character and firmness to successfully administer the department.
Consequently the revenue of the Province suffered. The opium tax was always
unpopular in a district in which about 90 per cent, of the people are opium
smokers, and therefore difficult to collect. Mirza Ismail Khan simply let it go.
Other payments which should have been realised he with equal equanimity
wrote eff as un-realisable and prepared a budget statement anticipating a deficit
of some
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
30,000. Several months he was only able to find the salary of
the Governor-General by getting the Manager of the Bank to discount bills for
him. These he had been able to meet up to December, but the Treasury was
empty and nothing coming in when the Democrats took charge of affairs. A
gentleman from Kurdistan was appointed to succeed Mr. Lecoffre but he had
only got as far as Ispahan by December and it is not likely that he ever took
up his appointment.
The Moham-ul-Mulk successfully held the post of Karguzar throughout
The Karguzari. y ear although three times dismissed.
At the end of ths last year his dismissal
was being urged by His Majesty's Consul in Tehran, but the order was dis
regarded by the Karguzar and tacitly passed over by the Foreign Minister.
In response to repeated complaints from European Pirms and further repre
sentations from His Majesty's Consul, an order was passed making Habibullah
joint Karguzar but, as the Moham-ul-Mulk put him in another room when
dealing with cases, the arrangement was not a success. No Pirms would have
anything to do with the Karguzari and, so far as the commercial community
went, there ceased to be a Karguzar. Put the Moham-ul-Mulk was the most
active and able Democrat in Kerman and his influence politically was most
injurious. Repeated and urgent complaints from the Governor -General and
His Majesty's Consul were so far successful that a telegram was again sent to
the Moham-ul-Mulk ordering him to return to Tehran. This he simply put in
Ins pocket and, when asked by the Governor-General whether he had received
it, he practically told him to mind his own business. Tehran took no steps to
enforce the order and it simply did harm and further weakened the
authority of the Central Government. The third dismissal was, as already
recorded, in December but as the Democrats were then in open rebellion against
the Central Government it was more than ever hrutum fulmen. When the
Luropean community returns to Kerman the Moham-ul-Mulk will probably
be found still sitting m the Karguzari.
Dr. Chiriaiefi held charge of the Russian Consulate throughout the year.
The Russian Consulate. Isolations between the two Consulates
s-rw .?•,-*» ffi
Majesty s Consul had to assist him in settling up and gettins awav from
■ IIe and 1118 Sta ® mashed down to Bandar Abbas with the British
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The volume includes Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1915 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1916); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1916 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1917); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1917 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1919); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1918 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1919 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920). The 1915 and 1919 Reports bear manuscript corrections written in pencil.
The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , and provide a wide variety of information, including details of senior British administrative personnel and local officials; descriptions of the various areas and their inhabitants; political, judicial and economic matters; notable events; medical reports; details of climate; communications; the movements of Royal Navy ships; military matters; the slave trade; and arms traffic.
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- 1 volume (194 folios)
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The reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the first folio after the front cover, and continues through to 194 on the last folio before the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The following folio needs to be folded out to be read: f. 36.
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