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'Annual Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the Year 1874-75.' [62r] (31/46)
The record is made up of 23 folios. It was created in 1875. 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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AND MUSCAT TOLITICAL
AGENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
FOR THE YEAR 1874-75. 27
•Ispahan, however, differs from Yezd in this latter respect, as it
abounds in streams and rivers, and is capable of greater extension of
the cultivation of the drug. But the cultivation of cotton and cereals
takes up a large part of those resources and tends in no small degree to
reduce the culture of opium.
A few years ago the profits of the opium trade having attracted
the attention of the Persians, almost all available or suitable ground in
Yezd, Ispahan and elsewhere was utilized for the cultivation of opium
to the exclusion of all cereals and other produce.
It was then supposed by some that the opium cultivation would be
indefinitely extended in Persia. But circumstances eventually showed
that such could not be the case.
The attempt of the natives to enrich themselves by cultivation
and growth of a profitable article of trade and their neglect to provide
for the necessaries of life, combined with drought and other circum
stances, resulted in the famine of 1871-72.
The costly experience then gained has made the Persians more care
ful and provident, and they are now using a limited space for the
cultivation of opium.
The largest produce they had in Persia, a few years ago, did not
exceed 2,600 cases. It has since been reduced to some 2,000 cases as
shown in the accompanying table marked A.
The quantity exported during last year, viz., between 1st January
and 31st December 1874 was 2,002 cases as per annexed table marked B.
Of this 583 cases were the produce of the crop of 1873-74 and
1,419 that of 1874-75.
The probable export for the year 1874-75 is estimated at 2,030
cases as per Appendix marked C.
The crop comes to hand in May and June, ^nd the great part of
the opium finds its way at the shipping ports between September and
January.
The shipping ports are Bushire and Bunder Abbass. The whole
produce of Ispahan and Fars is brought to Bushire. The produce of
Khorasan and Kerman is taken to the Yezd market, and this together
with that of Yezd itself are sent partly to Bushire aed partly to Bunder
Abbass.
The opium has hitherto been carried by English steamers running
monthly between England and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, The portion which
is intended for China is transhipped at Suez on board the Peninsular
and Oriental Company^s steamers. This route is selected in view to
avoid the duty levied at British Indian ports.
rr j t t.i « The exportation of opium from Persia dur-
Vide Tabic B. . 1 -. oha i' n
ing the year 1874 was as tollows:—
To Hongkong, cases 1,339 and Singapore 80= ... ••• 1,419
To London ... ... ...
Total
2.002
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Annual Report on the Administration 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 Muscat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for the Year 1874-75 , printed at the Foreign Department Press, Calcutta, 1875.
The report consists of a number of subsections, as follows:
- An administration report 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, with notes on personnel changes, Royal Navy vessels serving in the region,disturbances on land, The Maritime Truce, weather and winds, Bahrein [Bahrain], the coast from Kutr (Guttur) [Qatar] to the Shatt-el-Arab [Shatt al ʻArab], the Persian coast, the town and district of Bushire, postal services, and the slave trade (folios 49-52);
- A report on trade, also written by Ross (signed and dated 18 June 1875) (folios 51-52);
- Twenty-three tables and statements of trade statistics and data, including a memorandum on the opium trade, written by George Lucas, Uncovenanted Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , dated 25 January 1875 (folios 52-63);
- A memorandum on the trade of Muscat, with six accompanying tables of trade statistics and data, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Miles Barrett, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and Consul at Muscat (folios 63-69).
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The report is arranged in sub-sections, those relating to the Bushire 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. appearing first, those related to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Muscat appearing second. There is a table of contents (folio 48) that gives page references.
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