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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [129r] (262/1028)
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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In May the Iranian Government sent a Wireless transmitting set to
Bushire to be installed at the aerodrome for the use of aviators passing
through Bushire air port. It had not been put up by the end of the year.
Chamber of Commerce .—The activities of this body during the year
under reference were confined to the formation of two companies for the
sale of Government sugar and piecegoods. They contemplated the forma
tion of a third company for running some motor dhows with a view to
keeping the carrying trade between Iranian ports in the hands of a local
Company, but having found motor dhows to be useless for the purpose, the
Chamber abandoned the scheme.
Education .—The local school examinations were held in the 1 st March,
two months ahead of the usual time. Fifty boys sat for the examinations
as against 60 in the previous year. 33 Government Certificates which had
been received for the students who had passed their examinations last year
were handed over to them. Co-education was introduced in one of the
Government schools. No improvement was effected in the 16 schools under
the management of the Education Department, Bushire. The Director of
Education, however, took steps to ascertain the number of houses and shops
which are “waqf” (religious endowment property) in Bushire with a view
to taking 5 per cent, of their rent in aid of local schools.
Economic Condition.—The Central Government having approved a
suggestion made by His Excellency the Governor, Bushire, the Revenue
Department advanced wheat seed and money to cultivators in Bushire and
district. Many took advantage of the opportunity and borrowed money
and wheat seed and a larger extent of land was brought under the plough.
The rainfall which amounted to 14-69 inches ensured a good harvest and
bv the end of the year the peasantry were much better off than they were in
the previous year. The lucrative business of acting as guides to smugglers
or as guards for conducting their caravans of contraband goods to places or
safety continued to be a good source of employment.
In Bushire town the Customs Department daily employed some 200,
persons either in attaching banderole labels to the Government s loaf sugar
and packets of their tea, in putting their soft sugar into bags, or m
building an embankment to the south of the Customs quay.
Bushire Municipality .—Out of the 29 nominees voted for by the
citizens of Bushire the Central Government approved the following to be
members of the Municipality Council
1 . Muhammad Husain Talebi.
2. Ali Akbar Dewani.
3 . Mehdi Timsar.
4. Sayed Abdur Rasul Kazeruni.
5. Sayed Muhammad Syadat.
6 . Sayed Muhammad Tebatebai.
7. Yusuf Ukhuat, Editor of the local weekly “The Khahj-i-Iran”*
8 . Ahmad Borazjani.
9. Muhammad Khurram.
It functioned from the 15th March when it had a deficit of Rials 10,000
as the local tax-payers had been too poor to pay up their taxes. It tne _
fore, abandoned levelling the town streets but retained a sta
employees to look after the sanitation and ligh mg o t nwn i n the
maintains ten beds for the lying-in ward for the poor of ^ n the
Town Infirmary, a local Doctor to look after them and to treat other poor
patients free of charge, and a local Government school.
Acting upon instructions from Tehran the Council has provi e
sofas to bf used in Husainiehs (places of no sanctity as compared
mosques) for reciting the Qoran and saying prayers for the benefit
225(C) F&PD
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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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