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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [463r] (930/1028)
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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(b) General Trade.—A branch of Messrs. S. Dorabjee and Co. (a British
Indian firm) and six Shikarpuri Hindu firms traded in general British mer
chandise.
The whole question of trade will be dealt with in detail in the Annual
1 rade Report. Here it is perhaps sufficient to note that the Russians have
secured most of the piece-goods market and have upset the Sugar market.
Money has been tight and trade, generally, dull.
7. Political Interests* of the Consulate .—The chief event of the year
was the abolition of the Capitulations with effect from the 10 th May. It
aroused considerable public interest, though there were few demonstra
tions. At Bam the School-Master, Mudarris Zada, closed his school, read
out a telegram he had received from Ruhi, the Deputy for Jiruft, in the
bazaar, and gave an entertainment in the evening. A few shops were also
illuminated.
In Kerman the Parsee
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and a few shops were illuminated
and a small procession, which included school children, marched from the
Juma Mosque to the Shah’s Statue in the Kdiiyaban-i-(avenue) Sipah,
where Hashimi, of the Adlieh department, made a speech. The chief
participators in this demonstration were Sheikh Abul Kassim, Harandi,
the Russian Oil Agent, and his Harandi friends.
In accordance with a notice issued by the I. E. T. D. all inland tele
grams have, since May 10 th, been sent to the Persian telegraph clfhce, in
stead of to the I. E. T. D. office, for despatch.
The value of the Adlieh Courts for the protection of the interests of
British and British Indian traders is dealt with in Section 9 , Justice,
below. So far no cases, criminal or civil, have been filed in the Persian
Courts against British subjects.
In the month of October the Governor-General received instructions
to settle all foreign pending claims in his Court before Nauruz (21st March
1929) so as to allow time for the disposal of any appeals preferred. He
has however not yet received the official instructions for the special pro
tection of foreigners which the Persian Government promised to issue last
May.
8 . Communications and Security. —During the year under review the
Kerman-Duzdab road has been practically free from disturbance, but the
Bander Abbas-Kerman road was infested with Bashakirdi robbers at inter
vals during the first 9 months of the year. In all 10 important robberies
were committed by the Bashakirdis. Much credit is due to the Amnieh
guards for recovering the goods or animals stolen in almost all the cases.
On five occasions they had fights with the robbers and in one instance they
were able to release 27 men of Godar-i-Shorun whom the robbers were car
rying away captive. This was not the only case in which the Bashakirdis
carried off prisoners and confirmation has been received from other sources
that their captives were being sold as slaves.
The post between Bandar Abbas and Kerman was twice carried off by
robbers. In one instance the Amnieh were able to recover the mails and
the carrier; in the other case the robbers decamped with the parcel post.
There were no disturbances on the Bandar Abbas-Kerman road after
October. It is hoped that the Bashakirdis will be finally reduced to order
after Baluchistan has been settled.
In the month of July a carpet caravan was attacked on the Bandar
Abbas-Kerman road 12 farsakhs the other side of Sirjan by a band of the
Daragahi tribe. During the same month a caravan was looted between
Sirjan and Rafsinjan.
This year a credit of 70,000
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
was received for the long promis
ed Bandar Abbas-Kerman road and a certain amount of work has been
done. The formidable Tang-i-Zagh was not tackled in earnest till Novem
ber and the estimate of the Engineer-in-Charge that the road will be open
71 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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