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'Administration Reports 1920-1924' [130r] (264/412)
The record is made up of 1 volume (202 folios). It was created in 1921-1925. 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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persian gxjle 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.
, 1923. 1 1
Persian Postal Officials, and a tribute is due especially to Monsieur Chauviaux,
Inspector General of Posts in the South, for his energy and invariable courtesy.
But he has been hampered by lack of experience among his staff, and lack of
funds to pay them punctually. Inelastic financing arrangements due to the
system of Treasury administration introduced by the American Advisers also
give rise at the close of the year to a serious congestion of parcels for up-
country in the Bushire Post Office. Some 7 tons of parcels were lying wait
ing to be taken on whicH the contractor refused to handle as he was already
owed 1,500
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
by the Persian Government. The local authorities had no
power to pay up or even make advances against this debt, and the Central
Administration refused to accord sanction. The state of affairs would have
been even worse than it was if the Inspector did not make advances out of his
own pocket. With a staff insufficient owing to consistent ill-health, which has
also not been, paid for months, the Postal Department in Bushire at the end of
the year was m a thoroughly bad way.
oltrrekcy.
The restrictions imposed by the Persian Government on the export of
specie continued to have the baleful effect which was noted in last year's report.
Smuggling which it had been the very object of the embargo to prevent, was
indulged in freely. Nevertheless trade between Bushire and Behbehan and
other places along the littoral, where there are no banking facilities of any
sort, was almost strangled. The obstinate refusal of the Persian Government
to allow the transport of Krans from Bushire to Ganaweh for the payment of
wages to the numerous employes of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company working
there and in the Bikarz area, resulted in a serious state, of affairs in the Sprin--
Che men had no wages and the contractors had no means of importing food
and stores without credit in Bushire which thev were unable to provide without
sending m money. A state of famine- very nearly ensued. Eventually the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company was compelled to run the risk of transporting
nilhon by land The consignment got through" without mishap. It was not
till July that, after the repeated representations of His Majesty's Minister at
e l 1T S n ' ^ P ro ^ es ^ s ^ entire trading community at Bushire, British
and Persian the embargo both on the transport of Krans under cabotage and
on vhe export of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
, was removed by the Persian Government.
B ritish F irms.
In the course of the year Messrs. Dixon & Co. of Manchester went into
voluntary liquidation. No liquidator was appointed in Bushire but the
Aiesopotamia-Persia Corporation undertook to take charge of, and'sell such
tlie goods belonging to the firm as were lying in Bushire at the time. '
SECTION 9.
B ushire H interland.
Mention has already been made of Haidar Khan's relations with the
Government ; of Ghazanfar-es-Saltanah's enforced relinquishment
ot the Khanate of Boras,]un ; and of the disturbed state of affairs in Taneistau
consequent upon the murder of Zair Khidhar. There is little else of importance
io record regarding the Bushire hinterland, as the nps and downs, and inter-
tribal feuas and jealousies that formerly used to comprise the historv of this
part of Ears have now been more or less obliterated by the pressure of thp
new military organization in the South, which has in effect reduced all the Khans
to a dead level of insignificance relatively to the power of the Persian Gov
ernmejit as represented by the Army. If any Khan keeps his- head above thp
general level it is Shaikh Mohammed of Chakutah who, born intriguer that he
is, has succeeded in keeping in with the Military and using such precarious influ
ence as he enjoys m this way to assert sopae predominance over the other Khans
U was due m large measure to this man's influence, that Akhgar was elected
as a Deputy for Bu shir em despite of the wishes of the whole of the communitv
steady hostility to Haid^Khfrn^ ^ ^ ^ lnaintaills his a "itude of
.STrwe Trade.—Twenty-sevent slaves who had taken refuge respective'v
dLlg the year. g ' ^ AbbaS 12 ^ BuSllir0 ^ Were ^mitttd
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The volume contains the following Reports: 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 1920 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1921); 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 1921 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922); 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 1922 ; Annual 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 1923 ; and 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 1924 .
The Reports consist of chapters containing separate administration reports on each of the agencies, consulates, vice-consulates and other administrative areas that made up 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. . In addition, the Report for 1923 commences with a review of the year as a whole 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. . The Reports show some manuscript corrections.
The Reports include information on personnel; foreign representatives; local government; the administration of justice; political developments; notable events; official visits; military and naval matters; shipping and maritime matters; trade and commerce; economic matters; customs administration; pearl fisheries; British interests; oil; roads and communications; postal services; aviation; arms traffic; medical and health matters; water supply; meteorological conditions; slavery; and related matters.
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- 1 volume (202 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. There is a list of contents toward the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 204 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 89-91.
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- 'Administration Reports 1920-1924'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:203v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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