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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [206r] (411/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. 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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[16966] d* 3
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Iranian Government. The ambitious schemes for the development of the port
appeared to have been abandoned for the time being, but a contract was reported
to have been given in September to a Swiss firm for the lengthening and
strengthening of the existing jetty to provide a second berth. More locomotives
and rolling-stock were also to be provided to relieve the congestion, but at the
end of the year there had been no improvement.
Charbar.
74. With the acceptance in March 1936 of the petition of Haji Abdul
Hussein Hyderabadi, the leader of the Khoja community at Charbar, for the
renunciation of his Iranian nationality, it appeared that the Khoja question had
been finally settled. The petitions of the majority of the Khojas having been
accepted in July 1935, they should, according to Iranian law, have left Iran in
July 1936, but it was not till January 1937 that they actually departed. On the
26th January, 282 members of the community left Charbar by steamer. The
majority went to Muscat, but a few went to Gwadur.
75. Haji Abdul Hussein and his sons did not leave with the others. In
March the Governor-General of Mekran visited Charbar, and Haji Abdul Hussein,
as the leading merchant of the place, played an active part in the celebrations
held there on the occasion of the opening of the new motor road from Zahidan.
The Governor-General took him to Zahidan, and Haji Abdul Hussein sub
sequently accepted a contract for the supply of provisions to the Charbar garrison.
In September a letter was received from him showing that he had every intention
of remaining there with his sons, and His Majesty’s consul at Kerman reported
that he was also arranging for the return of other Khojas from Muscat. It was
decided that if he could obtain formal permission to remain, His Majesty’s
Legation had no reason to object or to refuse him protection, but that in the
absence of formal permission it would not be possible to help him in any trouble
arising directly out of his failure to comply with the law and leave Iran.
76. Throughout the year a large number of letters and petitions were
received from the Khoja community, requesting assistance in the custody or
sale of their immovable property at Charbar, in the recovery of debts, and in
arranging permission for the export of their cash and their gold and silver
ornaments, which they were obliged to leave behind, the export of gold and silver
being prohibited. Nothing could be done to help them in the recovery of their
debts or the sale of their property. But they were informed that, if they sold
their gold and silver and submitted a comprehensive statement of the sums which
they wished to transfer, the Exchange Control Commission would be asked to
grant the necessary foreign exchange. No statement of the Khojas’ requirements
was received, and no approach was made to the commission.
Manumission.
77. In January an Iranian woman, who said she was the slave of an Iranian
master, applied to 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.
at Bushire for manumission. Since
slavery is forbidden in Iran under the law of 1929, she was informed that she
should apply for assistance to the Governor of Bushire.
(c) East Iran.
General.
78. Anglo-Iranian relations in East Iran may conveniently be considered
under two headings : Incidents and the Boycott of His Majesty’s Consular
Establishments.
79. In 1937 there were no serious incidents on the scale of the commandeering
of lorries in 1934 and 1935, nor the episode of Gorich Kalag. There were a
few minor ones, mainly in the form of extortion and obstruction and even
maltreatment of lorry drivers, travellers and pilgrims on the part of passport,
customs and police officials, but these must unfortunately be regarded as inevitable
as long as the cost of living is so high and the pay of officials so low. Generally
speaking, the Governor-General at Meshed, while making it clear that he had
little control over the police, was always ready to listen to and take up any
concrete case put to him by His Majesty’s consulate-general, and it is satisfactory
that on more than one occasion a notoriously corrupt official was made to disappear
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the 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. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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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 321; 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.
The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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