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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [313r] (628/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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COMMERCE
487
almost to nothing; at the same time imports from outside had risen
to more than five times their pre-war value.
Comparison of Foreign Commerce in igi2 and ig20 (
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
)
Principal exports
Year
Dates
Barley
Wheat
Wool
Hides and
skins
Total
exports*
Total
imports
1912
70
168
36 *
45 i
7
487
398
1920
215
8
8i
20
1,038
2,327
* Including transit trade and re-exports.
The year 1920 was a record one for the export of dates, but an
appreciable part of the increase in total trade was caused by an
enlarged transit trade with Persia (p. 488). Moreover, the increased
value of trade between 1912 and 1920 did not reflect an equally large
rise in volume, because of the rise in prices.
The prosperous conditions of 1920 were short-lived. A decline
and then a slight improvement in 1923 were followed by a second
decline, as the army of occupation and foreign requirements were
reduced. Nevertheless, excluding transit trade and the import of
currency and bullion, there was very little difference in the value
of trade between 1923 and 1928. It was a period of reconstruction,
and throughout this period exports remained at about half the value
of imports. The figures in Iraqi dinars are: 1
Year Exports Imports
1923 . . 3,165,000 6,592,500
1928 . . 3,169,136 7,019,665
The world price of commodities was now falling greatly, so that
the volume of the principal Iraqi exports (dates, grain, pulse and
flour, hides and skins, and raw wool) and of the chief imports (textiles
and sugar) must have been rising.
The year 1928 has been chosen for comparison to show the trend
of events before the world economic crisis. It is interesting to com
pare the figures for 1928 with those of 1938 before the war crisis.
In spite of fluctuations, trade increased under both heads:
Year
Exports
Imports
1931 •
. 2,638,107
4 , 752,305
1933 •
. 2,218,878
6,102,726
1935 •
. 2,855,675
6,803,723
1936 .
. 3,483,649
7,177,110
1937 •
• 5,568,734
9,608,602
1938 .
. 3,688,835
9,408,052
1 The figures for 1923 have been converted from
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
at the rate of
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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