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'Administration Reports 1920-1924' [‎136v] (277/412)

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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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24
AUTNUAIi EEPOET OF THB
The editors, who are free lanees, with the thirty ' democrat ' or ' nationalist '
leailers now dominate the attitude of the province, and tie the hands of the
civil administration to an extent impossible and unbelievable in most countries •
there is no such thing as public opinion, and the rest of the population, while
often chafing at the domination of such persons, is cowed and afraid to make
itself heard for fear of spoken and printed abuse or threats. '
The editors of 4 Gulistan,' ' Asr-i-Azadi,'' Istakhr,' ' Khurshid-i-Iran ' have
made it part of their personal creed to be violently anti-British on every possible
occasion. Since British policy during the past two years has been complete
abstention from intervention in Persian internal affairs, these men are generally
forced to go outside Persia to find fuel to keep alive-a sentiment of antagonism
among their readers to everything British. Thus in the past year, in March
and April 1923, the murder in a bloodfeud of a Tangistani chief, who had opposed
us at Bushire in the war, was not only stated by these papers to have been
instigated by the British, but for several weeks formed a pretext for a passionate
outburst against everything British. The deputy for Bushire in the Majlis
telegraphed to the papers of Shiraz calling for revenge. The editor of ' Gulistan'
organized a ' pilgrimage ' to the site of the graves of 14 Persians serving in
the South Persia Rifles, executed in 1918 for treachery and murdering a British
Captain and Sergeant, and delivered orations from the pulpits.
For months these papers have published lying statements of British ill-
treatment of the Persians resident in Bahrain, urging the Government to assert
full sovereignty over these Arab islands, and obtain the wealth of the pearl
fisheries.
From July to November the papers mentioned called on Islam to join in a
holy war against the British, who had expelled the Shiah religious leaders from
Iraq in order to humiliate the Shiah religion. In October there was a public
demonstration of respect and sympathy, ordered by the central government,
for the Arab Mujtahid, Sheikh Mehdi-el-Khalisi, who after being deported from
Iraq passed through Shiraz on his way to join at Qum other members of the
Shiah clergy of Mesopotamia who had made a voluntary exodus to Persia.
Despite the evidence to the contrary and the knowledge of the Ulema concerned
that their quarrel had been with the Arab Government of Iraq and not with the
British representative in Baghdad, the circumstances were distorted by the news
paper writers, anglophobes and clericals into a charge of oppression by the
British Government, and in Shiraz the passage of the cleric was made the
occasion for a fresh outburst of anti-British sentiment.
The failure of a mail-steamer to wait for post-bags at Bnndar Abbas was
said to be an attempt to damage the Persian postal service ; the British quaran
tine doctors in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. were alleged to have pocketed 12,000 Tumans
for examining corpses sent for burial to the Shrines ; Arabistan was represented
in a series of articles in the ' Istakhr ' to be entirely under the control of the
" fishermen of London " ; the Imperial Bank of Persia was declared to have
paid not a single penny to the Persian Government as royalty for 36 years.
More virulent and troublesome still have been some of the so-called transla
tions from Indian extremist papers, such as 'Zamindar' of Lahore, ' Al-JamaV of
Calcutta and others, with astounding misrepresentations, e.g., one-third ot
the population of India, in which the women are gradually included, are m the
British prisons " and the reports that the British were being driven out of
India bv a general revolution. These Shirazi editors out-Herod Herod m their
constant prlssnre for the complete removal of all British interest from India,
Iraq and Esfvpt. In March 1924 the editors had meetings with two delegates
of the Khilafat Committee for India, on their way to Angora. What the impres
sion conveyed to the simple reader in Fars who does not learn the real tacts
of the position may be, it can only he imagined.
Even in such a remote internal matter as the demand for a Bepulfo^wMch
on the suggestion of newspapers in Tehran is now being torced on the fhirazis
bv this little party of editors and ' democrat leaders with military
stump orators are dragging in their' Anglophobia charging
against the Qajar Shahs that they gave the British the concessions to t he
European Telegraph Department, the Imperial Bank ot Persia, the ^g )
Persian Oil Company, Limited, and have deprived Persia of as (jVer }[" ( , ar ,l
in the pearl fisheries of the Gulf. A 'democrat leader and i nre-me that
this week giving a lecture to soldiers and officers m the barrac , g

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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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