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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎25r] (60/414)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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BRITISH CONSULATE, SHIRAZ
Appreciation of local conditions,
July to December, 1946.
The last six months of 1945 saw a change of holder in the post
of Governor-General of Fars. General Firuz who had left Shiraz for
Tehran in June last rather than stand up to his opponents sat in the
capital for some months apparently in the hope that these same
opponents would ask him to come back. They were unrepentant and
after the names of many possible successors had been mentioned
Firuz was replaced towards the end of December by Farrukh,
Immediately prior to his appointment to Shiraz Farrukh had been
appointed Governor-General in Tabriz but did not proceed to this post
as he was unacceptable to the Russians#
2. Qavam ul Mulk had been the chief opponent of Firuz and it was
now the turn of the Qashqai to come froward as chief opponents of
Farrukh. They declared objection to Farrukh was that he was hasty-
tempered. But they also saw in him a survival of the Pahlevi regime
(he previously served under Pahlevi as Gbvernor-rGeneral of Fars) and
a further objection was that Farrukh was a friend of Muadel, the
Shiraz deputy who is a particular enemy of Khosru Qashqai, Opposition
to Farrukh was general and not limited to the Qashqai and his
appointment is said to have been at the insistence of the Shah.
Farrukh is said to be able and honest but rough in his handling of
people.
3. The arrival of Farrukh coincided with a serious deterioration
of the position in Azerbaijan so that the end of the year saw Qavam
and the consulate attempting to persuade the Qashqai that it was in
the interests of Persia that Farrukh, whom they wanted to chase away,
should stay and thus give the Russians no opportunity of saying that
there was unrest in Fars as well as in Azerbaijan. Behind the
Qashqai objections to Farrukh lies their ambition to be the Warwicks
of Fars.
4. The absehce of a Governor-General for more than six months had
a serious effect on the administration particularly from the point of
view of grain collection and distribution of monopoly goods. Already
before the withdrawal of the last British officer seconded for grain
collection landlords were refusing to sign fresh contracts for deli
veries from the next harvests and even to honour contracts signed
for deliveries of grain from the last harvest, Shiraz, in consequence
started the winter with an empty silo and nothing better than hand-
to-mouth arrangements to ensure the supply of bread to the town,
5. Continued scandals marked the administration of the department
responsible for the distribution of monopoly goods and embraced an
inspector specially sent down from Tehran to enquire into the situat
ion. Distribution of monopoly goods was grossly defective and
generally months in arrear.
6. The newspaper aeditor appointed as Mayor by General Firuz from
outside the usual cadre in the hope, that a local man would study
local interests and please the populace soon became the object of
complaints that went as far as the Imperial Court and legal
proceedings were commenced against him. The fact that he was
penniless when he took over the job and at the end of the year was
building himself a new house was, even if no other evidence existed,
weighty evidence against him. The Municipality remained behindhand
in payment of wages, in debt, without a budget and apparently
unable to get funds even for essential services.
7. The lack of a Governor-General had very much less effect on
the armed forces than on the civil administration. In fact as Firuz
/ was a...

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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.

The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.

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1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.

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