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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [73r] (150/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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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 1906-1907.
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he was finally reinstated in February with retrospective effect from the 1st of
November.
55. The Germans. —In connection with the establishment of the Hamburg-
America Line in the Gulf, Mr. ter Meulen was appointed their Agent at Ahwaz by
the Company. Having fallen out however with the Agent at Basra, Wonckhaus,
the
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
was taken from him and given to Haji Eais (or his son, the Mushir ud
Tujjar).
56. Foreign Visitors. —There have been no foreign visitors of interest. In
deed beyond the Frenchmen of the Mission Scientifique, who this year did not
include M. de Morgan, only one visitor, a young Frenchman, M. Bquchon, fresh
from the Ecole Polytechnique, made his appearance. He is the son of a big French
Sugar Manufacturer. He only stayed one night.
FOREIGN AND PERSIAN BUSINESS CONCERNS.
57. Mr. ter Meulen. —Mr. Gratama, the young Dutchman who spent the cold
weather of 1905-06 with ter Meulen, has since been engaged in endeavouring to ob
tain capital in Holland for a Company.
In the beginning of 1907 Mr. ter Meulen announced that he had been success
ful and that he would be starting to join him in February. Subsequently however
a delay intervened owing to Mr. Gratama's going to Manchester to approach cer
tain firms there. He is now expected in Ahwaz early in May. He is a level-head
ed gentlemanly man, and may have some moderating influence on Mr. ter Meulen's
eccentricities. As these on occasion amount to madness, it is unlikely that the
partnership will survive long unless Mr. Gratama's counsels in the business become
paramount.
Mr. ter Meulen has lately obtained permission to have a private warehouse
under the charge of the Customs. The terms as regards rent and fees for
opening it, etc., are severe, and it is difficulj} to see that he will benefit by it.
He has also obtained a site for a private wharf, but what purposes, this will
serve are enigmatical. The S. S. Malamir any rate will not visit it.
His young unpaid assistant, Mr. VanBuuren, is still here, but is on the worst
possible terms with him, and will probably leave on Mr. Gratama's arrival, if not
earlier.
RAZUKI.
Razuki, an Armenian Agent of Messrs. Asfar and Company of Basra, came to
Ahwaz in the beginning of the summer of 1906. He was entrusted with £20,000
capital which he has thrown about in the most reckless way. His operations at
once sent up the rates of labour and rents, already too high, and he entirely ruined
the wheat trade which in view of an excellent harvest should have been very profit
able. He was very rash in granting advances, much of which he has not recovered.
He refused to come to any agreement with other buyers as to price, so Messrs.
Lynch Brothers eventually raised the rates still further by way of retaliation,
which they were able to do as they were little involved.
Razuki also lost immense quantities of wheat by failing to make provision
for protecting it from rain. He has however feathered his own nest and drives
about in state on the desert in a carriage—the summit of local ambition attained
only by one other individual.
59. The Muin ut Tujjar. —The principal of the Muin's schemes projected in
the beginning of 1906 which has borne fruit is that of placing a steamer on the
lower Karun.
This made its appearance in July. It did well at first, but is not now very
popular. The Agent at Ahwaz is a respectable Persian, Muhammad Baqir, who
used to be registered at Bushire as a British subject.
The working of the ship is at times interfered with by the Shaikh, who considers
that he has a prescriptive right to requisition it for his own use when he feels so
disposed. The ship is not properly looked after and being unprovided with conden
sers the boiler ought soon to become clogged up by the deposit of the mud of which
the river water is full.
60. The Muin also early in 1907 completed a large store room at Shalailiyah,
the port of Shushter on the Gargar.
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The volume contains Administration Report on 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 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on 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 Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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 Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); 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 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews 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. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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 folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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