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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [96r] (196/1028)
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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the Church Missionary Society, and an archaeologist and an Indian profes
sor. And a large party of students from London camped in the Consulate
garden in September, as they were unable to appreciate the accommodation
provided for them elsewhere by the local authorities who otherwise did all
that could be desired to render their visit profitable and to facilitate their
departure. A party of photographers employed by. the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Co. visited Persepolis and the Sugar
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
in December and was endea
vouring to find camels and lorries in close juxtaposition in accordance with
modern ideas of advertisement, and to satisfy certain recent Police regula
tions.
In addition to the above activities, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company,
sent a large geological expedition to make a survey of the whole area be
tween Shiraz and Bandar Abbas and of the Ardakan area in the west of
the Province, with a view to determining whether any portion of Fars is to
be included in the final concession area. The Company also made arrange
ments for the supply of oil in bulk from Bushire to the Sugar Refinery at
Marv Dasht and installed large depots with petrol pumps at Kazerun and at
Shiraz. It is reported that a motor road is to be made by the Company
from Ganawah to Borazjan, which may render them independent of the
present tracks over the “mashileh”.
The work of the Church Missionary Society’s Hospital at Shiraz has
continued successfully. Some difficulty with the Municipal Health Officer
was settled by the Governor-General at the request of the Acting Consul.
Bishop Thompson visited the district in September and inaugurated a
church at Qalat, 25 miles to the north-west of Shiraz.
The Fars Manufacturing Company’s cotton mill has been mentioned
elsewhere Three English engineers employed there resigned early in the
year as payment of their salaries in accordance with their
contract was not in accordance with the new fiscal regulations,
They were replaced by two other English engineers who accepted
oavinent on different terms. Mr. Hussein Agar, of the hi'inof Hadji Ah
Akbar and Sons of Manchester and founder of the Fars Manufacturing
Company was absent in Bushire at the end of far s upe-^ e
erection of another
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, haying resigned his post as ^ rec ‘ or of ^ nical
ment Trading Companies. His son, Mr. Charles Agar, was technical
manager of the Shiraz mill throughout the year.
The British colony in the district of His Majesty’s Consul at Shiraz
numbered 123 at The end of the year. Half of these are at Isfahan and
half at Shiraz. A considerable amountof the york “^Co^iateon
sisted in routine matters connected with, Isfahan. His Majesty s Em
and the Acting Consul ^ ^ c^Tlate for the Tasf of houses,
Arrangements were also made by the i SU rmlv of furni-
payment of rent, engagement of a gar armr a S ^ Other activities
ture on behalf of the Honourable the for the.
included an exhaustive report on the P rod " otl °? Election “of samples of
«* •"* •* P1 “ t
were sent by the Ming “SASH'S
Jubilee Trust and to the Earl Haig s Fund as tne resu
fahan and in Shiraz. . Herman colony
Foreign interests. —After the Britis ^mn^ festab li s hed for
the most important in Shna . jj ie 0 ther one was formerly
any years, one of whom owns a flour ^ ^ charge of the ^
nd agent to the Qawam-ul-mulk. Germans are employed at
actory controlled by the Go™ hp Edition Department German
,e School of Arts and Crafts under E ^ Electrlc Company s
techanics are in charge of machinery
pinning mill
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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