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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [26r] (56/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. 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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with a capital of rials 18,000,000 (£225,000), 52 per cent, of which will he sub
scribed by the Iranian Government and the remainder by Dutch interests
In December Dutch agents of the new company visited Bandar Abbas and
selected a site for the canning
factory
An East India Company trading post.
.
In April a local company with a capital of rials 10,000 (£1,250) acquired
the Bandar Abbas
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
of the Tobacco Monopoly.
Economic conditions .—The cost of living remained at a high level. The
local harvest was not good and prices of essential foodstuffs showed a slight
increase on the previous year.
V. MILITARY AND MARINE.
The Bandar Abbas garrison, which is included in the Kerman Brigade,
took part in the Bashakird operations in January-February. The threatened
insurrec- tion staged by Abdul Hussain Kameran and his followers, who
inhabit the Bashakird-Rudbar district a bout 45 miles north-east of Minab, was
successfully quelled without a shot being fired. The Iranian sloops “ Babr ”
and “ Shahrukh ” also took part in these operations. About 100 old rifles
were handed in by the rebels and, it is said, rials 40,000 were paid to the
Brigadier. No other punishment seems to have been inflicted.
The Kerman Brigadier inspected the local garrison on the 9th June (with
Sar Kashkar Atabaki, Director of Medical Services) and again on the 5th
August.
Serwan Ali Sarba'z was in command of the local troops up to 2nd April
when he was relieved by Sargord Azizi.
Conscription .—The Bandar Abbas committee commenced its annual
session on the 7th October. 106 discharged conscripts returned from Charbar
in October and 159 new men were sent to that station in November.
Internal Security. —Security along the Bandar Abbas-Kerman motor road
and other principal trade routes was well maintained throughout the year.
Iranian Navy. —All units visited this port at intervals during the year.
VI. COMMUNICATIONS.
Roads. No new roads from Bandar Abbas to the interior were opened
during the year.
In April a party of road engineers from Tehran re-surveyed the Bandar
Abbas-Minab road, at present a rough road for motors. No improvements
have yet been made.
The Bandar Abbas-Shiraz road via. Lar was little used during the past
year.
VII. SHIPPING.
136 steamers with an aggregate of 503,455 tons (gross) entered and clear
ed at the port of Bandar Abbas during 1938.
The distribution was as follows :—
Nationality
Tonnage.
British
German
Danish
Japanese
410,913
62,605
13,476
10,490
5,971
Greek .
The B. I. S. N. Co.’s subsidiary
veekly throughout the year both on
mail service steamers called at this port
the upward and downward Gulf sailings.
G. A. FALCONER, Major,
Bandar Abbas ; ^ C(msul for Kerman and Bandar Abbas.
6th February 1939.
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This volume contains 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 and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
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 volume (510 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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