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‘Administration report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1887-88.’ [19r] (35/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (34 folios). It was created in 1888. 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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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 MUSCAT POLITICAL
AGENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
FOR 1887-88.
33
iTTiected
importations of French sugar, and tlie agent of the Russian firm of Marseilles at Bunder Abbas
lias closed bis office. The importation of sugar from Germany has been discontinued.
In the two previous years a decline in the trade in copper was noticed. A Syndicate
Metals.
in London having established a " corner" in this article,
prices in Europe and other parts of the world have been sent
up to a remarkable degree, and of course this has affected the Persian trade. Owing, however, to
large stocks on hand in Persia, prices did not advance to a corresponding extent with those in
Europe, and sheets of copper have actually been re-shipped from Bushire to Bombay and London.
Persian dealers doubt the durability of the Syndicate, and hesitate to speculate until the stocks
of copper in Persia have been disposed of, hence the failure to force up prices in Persia to
the level ruling in Europe.
Owing to scarcity and dearness of grain, there has been a
larger importation o£ rice from India than usual.
Eice.
S/lipping.
The number of steamers for Persian ports was unusually small. Owing to there being no
exportation of grain, the regular vessels plying sufficed for general trade, and few other
steamers would have called at Persian ports but for the demand at Busrah on account of the
date business there. Pilgrims also were less numerous than usual, probably owing to distress
from depression of trade; but a large proportion went overland, instead of by sea, Freights
were fairly good and steady.
Exchange.
Exchange, on the whole, ruled lower than in 1886, fluctuating between 33| krans and 351
krans per £ sterling. The value of the kran in relation to the rupee has improved. The
value of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
averaged under 245 per cent., a less rate than in the preceding year. This is
thought to be due to the Herat krans having been sent out of the country.
Customs.
The Malek Et Toojjar of Bushire farmed the customs of Shiraz, Bushire, Lingah, and
Bunder Abbas with the district revenues of the last two places for the year 1887-88 at krans
21,50,000. These were sublet as follows :—
Krans.
Shiraz customs ........... 2,80,000
Bushire 8,00,000
Lingah .i.e......... I,10,t)00
Bunder Abbas ............ 6,00,000
Districts of Lingah ........... 90,000
„ Bunder Abbas.......... 2,50,000
T otal . 21,80,000
The trade during the year having fallen off, as already explained, much loss has been
suffered by those who engaged in these speculations.
In connection with the trade between India and Persia conducted through Bunder Abbas,
I subjoin some interesting notes furnished to me by Lieutenant H. B. Vaughan, 7th Regiment,
Bengal Infantry, dated Yezd, 3rd March 1888. The advantage which would accrue to
British commerce from the establishment of an agent at Yezd to protect British commercial
interests at that centre, is urged with justice by Lieutenant Vaughan, and has been referred
to in previous reports : —
j t . " Since the introduction of the Telegraph and Post Office Yezd has
become an important centre of trade, its population, inclusive of ad
jacent suburbs, being about 100,000.
" The government of the district is farmed out for 250,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, and the customs for 47,000.
" The imports are Indian goods, as well as English, of all descriptions, amongst which are yarns, piece-
j ^ ^ goods, prints, sugar, sugar refined, copper sheets, thin slabs, lead, iron,
condiments, chinaware, glassware, spices, green tea, Indian tea, and
Singapore tea,
" These imports come chiefly from Bombay through Bunder Abbas, and after a sufficient quantity has been
taken here for local use, the remainder goes on from this city to the following places ;—Meshed, Tehran, Kushan,
Sabzawar, Birzand, Toon, Tabas.
Exportg " The exports of Yezd are opium, cotton wool, madder root, curamin
seeds, almonds, walnuts, pistachio-nuts, &c.
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Administration Report on 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. and Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (no 245, Foreign Department serial no 20) for the year 1887-88, published by Authority and printed by the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta [Kolkata]. A copy of a letter from Colonel Edward Charles Ross, 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General for Fars, to Henry Mortimer Durand, Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department), dated 14 June 1888, is included in the report (folio 4), the original of which submitted the report to Government, under the following headings:
Part 1 (General Summary), submitted by Ross (folios 5-11), containing numbered summaries of local political affairs, and incidents or events of particular note for: 1) Muscat state; 2) Oman pirate coast; 3) El-Bahrain (referred to as Bahrain in the text); 4) El-Katr [Qatar]; 5) Nejd, El-Hasa [Al-Hasa]; 6) Fars and the Persian Coast, including Shiraz, Bushire and its districts, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; 7) Persian Arabistan; and 8) Persian Baluchistan. The report also includes summaries for: 9) Climatic observations, recorded by the observatory at Bushire, and 10) British actions against the slave trade. Appendix A contains tabulated meteorological data for the year, supplied by the Bushire observatory.
Part 2 ( Administration Report of the Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the year 1887-88 ), submitted by A. S. Jayakar, Surgeon Major in Charge of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (folios 12-18), containing a summary of affairs at Muscat, under the headings: political affairs, official changes, and slave trade. Appendix A to Part 2 is a sketch of the career of Seyyid Sultan bin Ahmed, the Imam Muscat, written by Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles.
Part 3 ( Report on the trade of South Persia for the year 1887-88 ), submitted by Ross and dated 15 April 1888 (folios 18-30). The report comprises a short summary of the year’s trade, with notes on: exports (opium, tobacco, cereals); imports (Manchester [cotton] goods, sugar, metals and rice); shipping; exchange; custom; and notes supplied by Lieutenant Vaughan on the economic state at Yezd [Yazd], where Ross advocates the establishment of a British agent. Appendix A comprises tabulated data on import, exports and revenue, in the Gulf ports of Bushire, Bandar-e Lengeh, Bandar-e ʻAbbās, Bahrain and the Arab (Oman) coast. An index to the trade tables can be found at folio 20.
Part 4 ( Muscat trade report for the year 1887-88 ), submitted by Jayakar (folios 30-36), comprising a brief summary of the year’s trade at Muscat, and also containing tabulated data on imports and exports at Muscat (listed by commodity), and the nationality and average tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat.
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- 1 volume (34 folios)
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The report is arranged into four numbered parts, with lettered appendices containing further reports and statistical data coming after each part. The General Summary is further organised into numbered sections, and further divided into paragraphs which are also numbered, from 1 to 99.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio, on number 3, and ends on the last folio, on number 36.
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- ‘Administration report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1887-88.’
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- front, front-i, 3r:36v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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