Coll 28/78 ‘Persia. Economic and trade conditions in Kermanshah’

Content

Correspondence and reports relating to economic conditions in the province of Kermanshah in Persia [Iran]:

• Correspondence dated 1928 relating to a complaint made by the Ottoman Bank, regarding alleged misstatements it had made, as reported by HM’s Consul at Kermanshah, Noel Patrick Cowan, in his commercial report for May 1928 (ff 59-66)
• Miscellaneous correspondence relating to reports on the economic conditions in Kermanshah, and the distribution of these reports (ff 46-58)
• A typewritten copy of a report on the economic conditions in the province of Kermanshah, with a mention of Hamadan, for the Persian year 1314 (corresponding to April 1935 to March 1936 in the Gregorian calendar), prepared by the Acting Consul at Kermanshah, Charles Alexander Gault (ff 5-45). The report contains chapters on imports and exports (including those between Iraq and Iran), agriculture, industry, opium production, British trade and foreign competition, Russian interests, Iranian Government monopolies, tax and finances, smuggling, transport, and communications.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format

1 file (65 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in 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 additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-66; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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/12/3482

Former external reference(s)

Coll 28/78

History of this record

Date(s)

6 Sep 1928-10 Jun 1936 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

ExportsReportsImportsEconomic activity

Places

Kermānshāh (inhabited place)

People & organisations

British Consul, KermanshahOttoman Bank

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