‘Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., President, representing the Upper India Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Tea Cess Committee.’

Content

Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia written by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. The purpose of the commercial mission was to report on the present position and future prospects of the trade of South-Eastern Persia with a view to increasing Indo-Persian Trade.

The report comprises five parts:

Part I – Introduction: inception of mission; route, including journey from Bombay [Mumbai] to Bander Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās].

Part II – General: physical features of country; people; trade statistics and methods; banking industry; agricultural banks; Russian competition; consular matters; engineering (irrigation, railway and harbour construction, mining); customs and imports.

Part III – Trading centres: Bander Abbas; Saiadabad [Sa‘īdābād, or Sirjan]; Bahramabad [Bahrāmābād, or Rafsanjān]; Kerman; Khabis [Shahdād]; Gok [Bāgh Gūk]; Bam; Jiruft [Jīroft] and Rudbar; Yezd; Shiraz; Bushire.

Part IV – Imports and Exports, including chief articles of commerce (statistics, Russian trade, customs tariff) and development of trade.

Part V includes a number of appendices comprising statistical tables of imports and exports, telegraph rates, descriptions of trade routes, costs and times of transport routes, the itinerary of the mission and a map of the caravan routes of South East Persia.

The report was published in Calcutta by the Government of India Foreign Dept, 1906.

Extent and format

1 volume (85 folios)

It is grouped into

‘Index Map to Caravan Routes in S.E. Persia’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/20/17, f 87

Arrangement

The volume contains a table of contents on folio 5 comprising of chapter headings and page references.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at a map in the inside back cover with 87; 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.

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/20/17

History of this record

Date(s)

1906 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Trade (practice)

Places

Persia

People & organisations

Arthur Hills Gleadowe Newcomen

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