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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [58r] (120/1028)
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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CHAPTER IV.
ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE KERMAN AND BANDAR
ABBAS CONSULATES FOR THE YEAR 1937.
1. Personnel.
Major C. H. Lincoln, O.B.E., I.M.D., held charge of the Kerman-Bandar
Abbas Consulates until relieved on the 1 st November by Major G. A.
Falconer,
Indian Political Service
The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47.
.
2. British Interests.
1. 12 British subjects were registered at the Consulate during the year.
II. Coronation of His Majesty King George VI .—The occasion was
fittingly celebrated at the Consulate on the 12th May.
A special service was held at St. Andrews Mission Church in the morning,
conducted by the Mission Chaplain.
In the afternoon there was an official reception at the Consulate, followed
by a garden party with illuminations and fireworks. Of the 94 persons to
whom invitations were sent, 54 attended. The only Irani officials present
were the Governor-General, Chief of Police, and the President of the Muni
cipality. The order prohibiting other Iranian subjects visiting the (Consulate
was rigidly enforced throughout the year. Many others were very
anxious°to attend the Coronation celebrations, but the official element
were dissuaded from doing so by the Governor, and others were
turned back by a detective posted a short distance from the Consulate
gate.
HI fli s Majesty's Birthday .—An official reception followed by a garden
party was held at the Consulate on the 9th June. 26 persons attended includ-
mg the three local officials excluded from the ban, and also three Iranian mer
chants who were brave enough to ignore the ban.
IV Church Missionary Society, {a) General .—The duties of Chaplain
were performed throughout the year by the Rev. M. T. Lord.
The Rt. Rev. W. J. Thompson, Bishop in Iran, visited Kerman twice
during 1937.
No active interference in the Society’s evangelical work came to notice
during the year, but a detective was invariably in the offing to see who at
tended the services.
Medical .—The society suffered a severe loss by the death of Dr.
1 . ji - n-i-i, t\/t o-Pfor* Qzi rvF aArxrip.pi t,n Hift Mission and the
off in the attendance. xv. xx.
assumed charge of men’s hospital and dispensary.
r>r miss') G. A. Henriques was in charge of the women’s hospital through
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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.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:511v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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