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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [96v] (197/1028)
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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iThere is an Austrian veterinary surgeon established in Shiraz.
An Italian engineer is employed by the Municipality and by the Cotton
Monopoly Company.
American archaeologists under Professor Schmidt were at Persepolis ^
in the winter of 1935-36, but work had not been resumed by the end of 1936. W
The Bahrein Oil Company has been endeavouring to obtain houses in
Shiraz for summer quarters for their American and European employees.
Several Americans visited Shiraz during the summer. They have also been
trying to make arrangements for supplies of fruit and other local produce
to be shipped from Bushire. It seems unlikely that the difficulties of tran
sport and of export regulations will be surmounted.
Foreign visitors to the district during the year 1936 included the
u. S. S. R. Ambassador and the Italian and Roumanian Ministers from
Tehran : the German Minister at Baghdad : the members of the French
Air Mission in Tehran and various archaeologists of American, French and
Belgian nationality.
Miscellaneous remarks .—Active work at Persepolis stopped in October
and all the Americans departed, leaving a Russian photographer in charge.
Mr. McCown was sent from Rey to be in residence in the event of the
Shah’s visit taking place, but left again at the end of the year.
The Tombs of Darius (Naksh-i-Rustem) can now be reached by car on
one of the tracks made for collecting beet.
The Louvre Mission was working at Shahpur during part of the year.
The maximum temperature recorded in 1936 was 98° in September, as
compared with 98° in August of the previous year. The lowest temperature
recorded in the winter of 1935-36 was 24°. In mid-December 1936 the ther
mometer fell to 22° on several days. The cold was unusually early as well as
extreme and some damage was reported to fruit trees, while many early
seedlings perished.
The rainfall for the winter season of 1935-36 was 4 inches less than in
the preceding year. Prospects for the present season indicate even greater
shortage of water.
> A. S. WATKINSON,
'His Britannic Majesty's Consul.
British Consulate, Shiraz,
January 28, 1937.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938'
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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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