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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [352v] (709/1028)
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 fall in the Kran should have assisted the carpet industry but the ill rl r* a
action of the Government in fixing an arbitrary exchange only made matt " aClVISed
as the carpet firms, with their higher standards and tradition, could notTwT
general merchants, sell their exchange, in the open market. ’Buyers inAm 6 ’
are demanding a reduction in price consonant with the depreciation of the K menCa
realizing perhaps that what is spent on weaving and dying a ^ V Uan n< ? t
but 20 per cent, of its retail selling price in the States. P Kerman 13
8. Communications and Security—(a) Communications.—No new roads 1 ,
been made during the year under report, and little has been done to improve evt?
mg routes. The Bandar Abbas motor road has proved unreliable as the Southern
Section which can boast scarcely a single bridge or even culvert is subject to W
wash-outs in the winter. Moreover the Tang-i-Zagh which had been reported
Esld^ 11 E lgnment m 1920 by British En g' ineers ^ subject to interruption by
As the result of the Shah s visit in November the question of a settled mad
policy and programme came to the fore. Kerman was made the centre for mad
administration in South-East Persia which includes Lingah, Yezd and Biriand
The programme so far put forward is to build a Coast road to the vieinitv of the
.frontier of British Baluchistan and to construct two arterial lines of commimi
cation from Bandar Abbas, one to Tehran and the other via Jiruft to Khurasan
1 he Army, however, is in favour of the development of Charbar as a port and the
construction of a strategic road to Bampur. This alignment has been surveyed and
tne estimate worked out at T. 800,000. ^ dna
(b) Security. Law and order has on the whole been well maintained with the
exception of the South-West corner of the Province where roCfrom fes and
Bar have continually been robbing traffic on the Bandar Abbas motor route To
wards the end of the year there was a recruidescenee of Baluch raiding in the
western fringe of the But but in the majority of cases the Amnieh intercepted the
robbers and forced them to abandon their spoils. It would not seem that this
flare up of former activities has any real significance. 8
(c) Posts. Owing to the unsettled condition of the Bandar Abbas-Kerman
maiirtXknkce^Th 011 W been irre g ular > but no actual robbery of
nails took place. The post which is supposed to take 46 hours for the iournev
has, m many cases, taken over three weeks in transit. During September the mads
from Bandar Abbas travelled via Bushire and Ispahan for 3 weeks.
m , T1 m “ Duzdab been working satisfactorily. Owing however to the
bi-weekly service of trains having been made into a weekly one the letters take
more time m transit than before. — *■— ine ieiiers Take
Its e ( rectmn r bv S k T ppr ireleSS M ^ never been in operation since
H. M. the Shall in K m /T S U q- ‘'26, started functioning before the arrival of
each operation cost theTl ^ i/t? 6 ' ' en IT bas been m working order, but as
IhfsE remates to aiT t S T P D , e P artment T - 6 and there is hardly any work,
rne station remains to all intents and purposes closed. J J
carrvms'lastenveEtod- iT ° m T etran to Kerman °f Junker’s planes
has been made to th ° ^ Jllce uri,l ~ ! l ; c year under review. No improvement
nas been made to the aerodrome to the North-West of the town.
B.— Local Government and Politics.
Shah is^doubfpdK^ 0 ^^^^ £ 0 ? d order and security introduced by Beza
at the hands of rA 1 a hl )re P ia ed especially by the villagers and tho§e who suffered
kritv on this + ^ aS . the Balu 1 ciis - 0n the ^her hand the Shah’s popu-
the heavv taxation ^nH extent discounted, and especially in the towns, by
his account " G ce h ieciatl0n tbe Kran both of which are placed to
Commission of Enquiry.—-The Persian Government in its campaign to raise
"eir pu j ic sen ice frequently sent commissions from the Capital
worK ot Local Officials on s-nomfin : 4 - + 1 ,^
to investigate the^vorl bU f 7 ° Se rnn ^B^ntly sent commissions from the Capita]
Kndoubtedlv tbp ooliV ^ ° d p ia 1 S 011 s P e cific complaints made against them,
tend to be Tuperhcial 3 mUS ’ thr0Ugh tlle element of fear, produce results, but they
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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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