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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [183v] (371/616)
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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gg ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE PERSIAN GULP 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.
Towards the end of the year messages were sent straight through from
London to Karachi and even to Calcutta and direct working is to be insti
tuted shortly which will make Tehran simply a transmitting station and
so set free a considerable number of signallers some of whom I hope will
come here and make things easier for the men here with whom it now appears
to be a case of all work and no play.
As already mentioned no road has been safe from robbers. On the
Meshed road they were strong and bold enough to hold up a caravan of 40
Afghans who put up a fight and lost four men killed. No caravan has got
through from Yezd without being attacked and no caravan has made any
attempt to go from here to Yezd for months. The Bunder Abbas road is
the least unsafe as no band of robbers can settle on it conveniently or make
much out of it. Almost the only goods coming up on it are brought up by the
Af sharis on donkeys, and 30 or 40 of them, well-armed, come up together, each
owning a few donkeys, so forming a party which nothing but a big band could
tackle and no big band of robbers could find provisions or hold together for
more than a day or two. The few camel caravans which come through come
in sufficient force to be safe from the small bands of 3 and 4 robbers who make
the road unsafe for ordinary travellers unaccompanied by armed escorts.
The Imperial Bank of Persia has of course been affected by the stagna
tion of trade brought about by the general insecurity of the country and has
found business not very brisk. Mr. Simpson went on leave in July and
Mr. Wright from Ispahan took over, the management from him. The Bank's
new quarters are not yet completed but will it is hoped be ready for occu
pation by next Naoroz.
Mr. Bice, Secretary of the Ispahan Committee of the Church Missionary
Society, came to Kerman in April and in spite of the Bishop's orders forced
through the transfer of Mr. Liddell to Yezd and replaced him by Mr. Scorer,
who had come from Yezd to marry Miss Adamson, one of the nurses of the
Society. He however professed himself una r ble even to represent the advis
ability of transferring Dr. Dodson to Yezd and bringing the Yezd doctor
here and left me to write to the Bishop in Ispahan. The Ispahan committee
apparently have no authority over the doctors who are governed more or less
by a central medical committee in London. This committee was faced by the
objection of Dr. White to having his hospital in Yezd upset by Dr. Dodson,
and presumably finding a like objection to his exchange with any other
doctor in charge of a hospital decided to close the Kerman hospital and to
send Dr. Dodson to Ispahan to go through the course of training under the
doctor there which he ought to have gone through before he was given
independent charge of a hospital. The matter took so long to arrange that
the political situation here had completely changed before the London com
mittee had arrived at any conclusion, and Dr. Dodson had at last been
persuaded that my representations had got to be listened to and had lett
off performing operations recklessly so that by the time the decision of the
committee was communicated to me I was able to inform them that Dr.
Dodson's removal was no longer necessary, while a considerable European
community had gradually been formed here relying solely on the Mission
doctor for medical aid so that it was a serious matter to suddenly withdraw
this without warning. My representations together with those of the native
community, whom the Mission had educated to appreciate European medicine
and surgery within reason, have only been able to delay the closing ot 6
hospital, the fact being, I am told, that funds are scarce and that the Kerman
Medical Mission, which at first paid a large proportion of its expenses trom
fees and contributions collected locally, has lately practically ceased to assist
in its own support. The Committee have at any rate refused to reoonsiae
their decision and the hospital will be closed early in 1909.
The very scanty rains of last year made the crops lighter than they
might have been, especially as to the yield of straw, and consequently ^
prices of wheat and barley have been high, and that of kah^or chopped s ra '
inordinately so. A sharp bout of cold late in the spring nipped all the ru
trees and there was consequently practically no fruit this year. Khabis a
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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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