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Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [519v] (1038/1148)
The record is made up of 1 file (572 folios). It was created in 18 Aug 1941-31 Jul 1946. 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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At the end of the year, there were about twenty-two German or German-
subject male adults in Isfahan, and about three in Shiraz. There were perhaps
as many as half a dozen in the rest of the Shiraz Consular district.
Measures, designed to eliminate from Iranian industries foreign employees
who were politically undesirable, of which there had been some talk in the summer, \
had not materiahsed effectively by the end of the year.
12 . Educational .—The Iranian Government purchased the premises of the
Stuart Memorial College, Isfahan, and took over control of the school. Miss
Gerard was allowed to buy the Shiraz C. M. S. Girls’ School; the other two similar
Girls’ schools, at Isfahan and Yezd, were bought by the Government but are carry
ing on for the present school year as before Armenian schools were rigorously
Iranised.
13. Agriculture .—The more extensive cultivation of opium was again permit
ted, but if the crop for 1940 was much larger than that of the previous year, the
Iranian Government succeeded in concealing the fact. Iran asked for and obtained
more than double the 1939 price for the 1940 crop.
The cultivation of rice in Ears wns, as the result of a petition made in April,
allowed for one year only by special permission for each place, i.e., by bribing the
officials who inspected the land and decided whether or not any other crop could
be planted there. The Ears wheat crop was not very successful. A shortage of
wheat in Isfahan and N. Iran developed during the summer and autumn, due
partly to exports made before the War, partly to private hoarding, and partly to
twn successive bad years. It was even said that many people died of starvation
in the Lenjan area above Isfahan. Whether or not this w^as so, it was learnt early
in 1941 that the Government had decided to make a similar concession for 1941 to
the cultivators there and in Bakhtiari country as had been made to Ears for 1940.
The silo at Isfahan had been completely emptied of wheat. The Shiraz silo w r as
completed except that no machinery arrived. Large quantities of wheat ivere
sent out of Ears to stop the shortage at Isfahan and in North Iran.
The fruit crop was a failure in most parts of Ears.
The Marvdasht refinery worked on sugar-beets grown in the surrounding
district for four months. Beet cultivation is widely pursued in Ears.
Inspite of the laws for the protection of forests, no effort was made in Ears
to check deforestation, which is gathering speed, and threatens to become very
serious.
ILLEGIBLE,
Acting Consul.
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This file consists of copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by the 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. in Bushire for the years 1939-1945.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire Area
- Administration Report for Kerman & Yazd
- Administration Report for Bandar Abbas
- Administration Report for Kuwait Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report for Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report for Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
- Administration Report for Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report for Khorramshahr Consulate
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections that vary according to each report, but include the following topics:
- Personnel
- Visitors
- Foreign Representatives
- British Interests
- Local Administration
- Transport
- Education
- Military
- Aviation
- Political Situation
- Trade
- Medical
- Meteorological
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written 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. .
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- 1 file (572 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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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 574; 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. Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 1-571; these numbers are written in pencil or crayon and, where circled, are crossed through.
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- Title
- Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:448r, 448r, 449r:573v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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