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22 administration report of the
CHAPTER III.
Admimstration Report ot the Kerman Consulate for the year 1921.
His B eitannic M ajesty's C onsulitb.
The charge of Sis Majesty's Consulate was held by Major A. J. H. Grey
throughout the year. .
Khan Bahadur Abdul Mm acted as Vice-Oonsul m B^hdav
i _ a + rpppnfirm held at the Consulate on the Kings uirtnaay
™ to pint to htm the badge ..d el the title ..
Tfhati Bahadur which had he en granted to him the preyious year.
P ersian O eficials.
His Excellency J 'afar-Quli Khan, Sardar Assad, Bakhtiari has held the
p( M J .».l th^ghoMtteje^H,,
Governor-General. time whenlhis brother Amir Jang
was sent to Tehran to support his interests there and frustrate the attempts
then being made by Sardar Zaflar to secure the appointment of Gojernor-
General Kerman. Erom this date a change in the Governor-General 8
demeanour became noticeable. He bad undoubtedly resented all along the
strong influence wielded by the pro-British party headed by Sardar ^usret
and the influential priest Haji Mirza Ah Mohamed and their power to hinder
his pec ^tbns and general spoliation of the province but, owing to the presence
of the South Persia Rifles and the weakness of the anti-Bntish party which
had been severely dealt with by General Sykes, he was torced to accept tbinga
as they were and adopt an outwardly friendly attitude, towards the Anglophile
nartv Amir Jang encouraged him in this attitude, being shrewd enough
see that it was better to forego some of the profits which ^
derived but for the obstacles raised in their own interests by the pro-Bntis
notables than to risk getting into our bad books by intriguing against these
notables and encouraging the so-called Democrats and other disreputable
elements who formed the Anglophobe party. ^ , ,
rm,,. dpnarture of Amir Jang in March which coincided with the first
rumours of the disbandment of the South Persia Rifles, and the arrival of the
new Bais Okaf, Mirza Reza Kban Eahimi, an official of strong anti-British
yiews who soon became the confidant and adviser of the Governor-General,
caused a complete change in the latter's attitude who thenceforward, until the
close of the year, neglected no opportunity of inuring and discrediting those of
British sympathies. , tt •• ht- at
His hostility was chiefly directed against Sardar Nusret and Ha]i Mirza Ah
Mohamed the former of whom be harassed to such an extent that he preferred to
leave the province and proceed on a pilgrimage to Kerbela rather than contmue
to sub iect himself to the loss of dignity and prestige entailed by the constant
nin pricks and insults of the Governor-General. The latter was gradually
deprived of all the Okaf properties of which he and his family had been in
charge for many years, no opportunity being given him, despite his protests, to
establish his right to these properties in the ordinary courts of law. The
Governor-General on more than one occasion publicly insulted the Superinten
dent of Persian Telegraphs, a notoriously pro-British official and brought pressu
to bear in Tehran to secure his removal from Kerman. ^
His Majesty's Consul several times frankly discussed the situation with
the Governor-General and urged him to adopt a more considerate attitude
wards our friends. Such discussion however had no apparent ettect.