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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [163v] (331/488)
The record is made up of 1 volume (241 folios). It was created in 1912-1915. 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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6() PEESIAN GULF ADMINISTRATION REPORT
the ordinary typo of
factory
An East India Company trading post.
, wer&in most respects impracticable. They also
included the appointment of an inspector who should have the uncontrolled
right of entering every
factory
An East India Company trading post.
and imposing penalties for the breach of the
new regulations.
The whole weaving community at once rose in arms against these regula
tions. The
factory
An East India Company trading post.
-owners and weavers, on the grounds of the impossibility of
rebuilding their houses, and the European carpet buyers, on the grounds that
their private designs would be placed at the mercy of the inspector, and that,
in the closing of many factories, which was bound to take place, their contracts
and advances would go to the winds. Both parties also pointed out that the
inspector, who had already paid for his appointment, would only use his autho
rity to enrich himself by fines, or bribes for remitting fines. Several hundred
master weavers from the town and villages spent some days in bast at His
Majesty's Consulate.
His Majesty's Consul took up the ground that, though reforms were undeni
ably desirable, the regulations were impracticable and the means proposed for
enforcing them objectionable ; and at his suggestion the Muwaffaq-ud-Dowleh,
who was only too ^lad to get out of the mess he found himself in, issued a
notice that the regulations were withdrawn and would only be reintroduced
after a discussion between the Government authorities and all parties inter
ested.
Nothing more was heard of the matter. There is no doubt that the
industry as carried on is responsible for a great deal of human misery,^ in de
forming and arresting the development of the children, especially the girls em
ployed in it, but, official reforms in present day Persia can only be ineffective
for their professed objects and a source of a hundred new abuses. A good deal
is being quietly done by European merchants who use their influence to en
courage the improvement of existing factories and the building of more sanitary
new ones, while the Mission Hospital does what it can to relieve the misery
which is caused by deformity and incomplete development. Many cripples
with distorted misgrown legs obtain some relief and the lives, at least of many
young would-be mothers, are saved, only, however, as a rule to be jeopardised
again.
After this the only serious affair in the town was the agitation, in October,
against the Revenue Department already mentioned, which was the work of the
Amir-i-Mufakham and a few mischief-makers, including, it is believed, Jallal
ud-Din (Mulla), Mirza Yahya, and the Nusrat-us-Sultan.
The later agitation against the appointment of the
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Muhtasham was
conducted on orderly lines, and it is not likely to become acute till there is some
greater certainty of his ever coming to Kerman.
Throughout the year His Majesty's Consulate was a place of general appeal
to all aggrieved or malcontent people.
In the early part of the year many Persians with prospective grievances
addressed His Majesty's Consul with the hope of obtaining promises of protec
tion ; some of them produced testimonials to their services in the public interest
during 1912, granted by the Consulate. No promises or encouragement of any
description was given to such applicants and they soon desisted from their
efforts.
The introduction of European control over the Revenue Department, and
p ^ , the establishment of the gendarmerie
The Revenue Department. ^ ^ ^ of ^ ^ ^ wer e
likely to produce lasting results, for good or evil, in modifying the future course
of affairs in the province. The balance of probability is in favour of their
proving beneficial.
In the problem of the reorganisation of, finance in the province there are
at the moment two dominating elements, firstly, the personality of Mr. Leoott 1 " 6 '
and secondly, the nature of the operation of pouring the new wine of effiwen
control and protection of the revenues into the old bottles of the traclitiona^
system of Government by a supreme Governor-General, the main objec o
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The volume contains Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. for the Year 1911 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. for the Year 1912 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1913); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. for the Year 1913 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1914); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. for the Year 1914 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1915).
The Reports contain reviews 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. , and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative districts that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal places and tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, transport, judicial matters, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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- 1 volume (241 folios)
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There is a list of contents toward the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 2 on the first folio after the front cover, and terminates at 242 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil and 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.
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- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914'
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