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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [43r] (98/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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16./-
The following a re the year's total undertakings.and
collections for Rafsinjan,BaiD,Sirjan > Mahan, Sabzwaran,
Zerend, Mashiz, Tahrood and Kavirs>-
Undertakings
Wheat
Kilos.
3247915.
Barley
Kilos .
661532
Wheat
Kilos.
28316IS
Collections.
Barley
Kilos.
570626
Balance to be collected.
Wheat. 416302 kilos. Barley. 90706 kilos.
The bread made in government bakeries which sold
at approximately Rials 3.50 per kilo very often contained
less that 50^ of wheat and only the very poorest elements
of the population consumed it. Free bakeries flourished
and charged Rials 7/- per kilo.
The distribution of tea and sugar was invariably
made several months late - the outlying districts receiving
only a fraction of their quota. In fact reports, confirmed
by an independent source, stated that the Head of the local
Kharbar Department sold 60 bags of sugar and 5 cases of tea
in Sirjan at black market rates. Throughout the year no
cloth was distributed to coupon holders.
Owing to a long standing 'ramp* between local
officials and merchants large quantities of ^hee 1 were
being exported to other provinces and the local price fluct
uated between Rials 270/- and Rials 360/- per 3 kilos for
the greater part of the year.
For several months in the middle of the year the
price of rice rose steeply from Rials 38/- to Rials 60/-
per 3 kilos and the prices of most foodstuffs and consumer
goods remained at inflation levels throughout the year.
There has been no appreciable difference in prices
since the cessation of hostilities in Europe and the Far East
The price of firewood and charcoal stood at Rials
450/- per kharva r in the last three months of the year.
£» POLITICAL ..
Throughout the year relations both official and
social, of local officials, military authorities and notables
with this Consulate continuef/to be most cordial. The hope
wa s often expressed by many Persians that the freedom of
social intercourse with foreigners, re-born during this War,
will not be denied to them in the years to follow.
The la st vestiges of pro-German sympathies dis
appeared during the year and V.E.Day was celebrated with
remarkable vigour by all, and brought warm-hearted and sin-
-cere congra tulations from the Governor General and most
of the lea ding citizens of the town. V.J.Day was also an
occasion for rejoicing in which the military authorities
took a leading pa rt. The celebrations were not unmixed with
the hope of trade revival and years of peace and plenty.
The Russian Consul General for Meshed accompanied
by 3 members of his staff passed through Kerman in June.
They roamed a round the town taking photographs; tried to
locate the site of the old Russian Consulate; asked about
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
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- 1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear 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. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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