Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’

Content

Annual commercial reports for the provinces of Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (from 1936, referred to as the provinces of Khorāsān and Mekran [Makran]), submitted by the British Consul for Sistan and Kain (from 1936, the British Consul-General for Khorāsān, Meshed [Mashhad]) (Clarmont Percival Skrine; Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly; Major Everard Huddleston Gastrell; Captain Giles Frederick Squire). The reports include sections on:

• trade (including imports, exports, foreign goods, openings for British goods)
• finance (including banking activity, bankruptcies).
• taxation
• Persian military (including the commandeering of transport, effects of conscription)
• agriculture (including irrigation, opium production)
• industry (including new industries, electricity generation, demand for foreign machinery)
• communications and transport (roads, railways)
• social conditions (standard of living, unemployment, public health and hygiene)
• appendices with statistical tables on imports and exports on the Nushki to Duzdap [Zahedan] railway, imports and exports via Zahedan, freight rates, and rates for animal transport

Preceding each report is an 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. minute paper, containing handwritten notes commenting on the contents of the report. The file also includes a small amount of official correspondence relating to the contents of the reports, and a number of other reports prepared by the British-Consul General, relating to the commercial situation in eastern Iran, and Iranian trade with Russia.

Extent and format

1 file (156 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 157; 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.

An additonal foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-156; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/12/3415

Former external reference(s)

Coll 28/19

History of this record

Date(s)

10 Dec 1928-5 Jun 1942 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Trade (practice)Trade statisticsReportsRailwaysImportsExports

Places

PersiaSistanKainBirjandMeshedKhorasanMekran

People & organisations

British Consul-General, KhorasanGovernment of Iran, Pahlavi dynasty

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