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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [248r] (500/1028)
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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For instance a Kuwait subject going direct to Mohammerah, Bushire or Bandar
Abbas has his Kuwait certificate of identity torn up by the local Persian autho
rities and is fined, on the excuse that he should have taken out a Persian passport,
Kuwait being a Province of Persia in the minds of local coastal officials, what
ever the Persian Government may say officially to His Majesty’s Minister m
Tehran. Similarly any Persian arriving with an Ilm-o-khabar, or yellow piece
of paper permitting the traveller to proceed from one Persian port to another
has it confiscated on his arrival.
(d) During the summer of 1933 the Ilm-o-khabar system was reported to
have been abolished, certainly Persians who arrived in Kuwait began to come
armed with proper passports ; but as these were all marked India ina Kuwai
and Oman, or Iraq via Kuwait and Oman, the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, acting unc er
orders, charged the holders 10 gold francs (approximately Rs. 7) on their
landing.
3. Persian Navy.—(a) Persian Sloops in the Gulf have been veiy active
in their efforts to stop contraband going over to the Arab Coast durmg l.)3.>
Unfortunately the zeal of the officers of this newly ^-constituted Navy has been
far outrunning their discretion. A number of Kuwait craft were seized, m some
emes on the High Seas, and taken into Persian ports for investigation The
cases have formed the subject of vigorous protest by His Majesty s Mmistei a
Tehran but hitherto with little result.
19—7
throughout 1933. 1 . . , Q - Tnlm
Hit contcnbion to e p gh ikh informed the Honourable the Political
EeieliUn tlmlWan Gulf that he had decided to postpone all negohations
W33, it became known thnt ^Eastern and General
were about to form a single company concern would come out to
SB » February l.M, - S'a» » »” —
combined offer.
X.—Post and Telegraphs.
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the Iraq Government throughout 193d. l^ee
(b) The protracted negotiations whidi His Majesty Telegraphs
with the Iraq Government on the subject of the tutme
are at the time of writing sti un mis • fnp+nw to both Governments
emerge down on this
^^(dl^Withont doubt, Iraq intends while of
®“ 1 Sir. gives . document independence ol
i s: m *■ 20
years. . , i ; sslie other minor details and demands
The above are really the major T>omta at^ne.
of the Shaikh can, i is op ’ liav0 a u been communicated to the Iraq
aovii-, end e< the F~ * ^ >»
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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. .
- Extent and format
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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