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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [137v] (279/1028)
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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of the animal migrations. The date for the carrying out of these measures
is not yet fixed but a decrease in the moving ot the tribes has already
taken place.
Yawar Bahman Mirza, Mas’ud, the military governor of the Qashqai
was frequently at Shiraz for liaison work with the military and civil
authorities. '
Sarhang Qasim Jalil, military governor of the Chahar Lang section
of the Bakhtiari, was also at Shiraz in July.
The Governor-General, with a senior military officer from the capital,
toured in Mamassani during August, visiting Tal-i-Khosrau and Semirum.
This visit was connected with tribal settlement.
It is unfortunate that irrigation work for the drymg-up of the swamps
Tal-i-Khosrau has been neglected or planned without sufficient skill
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as the new settlement is a centre of malaria.
The property of the Qavam-ul-Mulk at Dilgusha, on the outskirts of
Shiraz, was transferred to government in September. This completes the
taking over of all the properties of this chieftain m Shiraz m exchange
Sr properties in the North. It is said that the owner has not suffered over
the exchanges, which he was able to negotiate whilst still m favour.
Some concern was caused in December by the disappearance of
Ibrahim (Khan) Farbud, the ex-
munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
-bashi of the Qayam-ul-Mulk. the
authorities professed to be equally intrigued by the disappearance which
they attribute to murder or suicide.
The Bagh-i-Farbudieh, one of the town properties of the ex-Muns i-
Bashi was occupied as offices of the Governorate-General in May.
Preventive Service.—T\iz Customs preventive service at Shiraz was
disbanded and the branch closed down early in the year.
The last head of this service at Shiraz was found to have been receiving
bribes from sugar smugglers. He absconded but was arrested and sent
to the capital. . .
-The import trade of Shiraz is still suffering from the restric
tions governing imports.
Representatives of local merchants petitioned the Minister o
on his first visit to Shiraz for a relaxation of the restrictions and for
facilities to carry on their business. The only result was the promise of
financial assistance for the formation of trading companies in which
government took the lion’s share. Merchants were given the choice of
fnvesting their trading capital in these concerns, the majority having n
operations The trader has realised that there is no scope for
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Focal produce are rising for the benefit of government
These trading companies, in which government holds the principal
capital, were formed early in the year and are: ...
in\ Thp ^hirkat-i-Tiiareti founded for the purpose of “assisting the
(a) T : c onomffi conditions in Pars and in the ports of the Persian
Gulf” and to “secure better markets for the products of the
country”. ,
This concern undertook general export business and took over the
imnirt trade of the province (with the exception of the goods
already “monopolised” to Government or other concerns in the
nonitail and is in a position to obtain preferential treatm n
b^DD icatkiM for import licences. The capital was to
consist of Rials 8,000,000 (£107,000) of which government
through the AgricuUural Bank, undertwk to provude Rials
5 600,000 (£74,500) leaving Rials 2 400,000 (£32_50U)
Raised by the trade and by public subscription. The shares
will be of Rials 100 (£1-5-0) each.
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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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