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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎13r] (30/418)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (205 folios). It was created in 1926-1931. 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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CHAPTER III.
Review of Conditions and Events in Faes during 1925 to end of March 192G,.
Order and Security.
The disappearance of several lawless bandits lias given confidence in the
districts they formerly troubled. In January 1925 Ismail Mihmrjani was
killed in an affray outside Kazarun. In April Fazlullah (Fazu) was
arrested at Kazarun, brought to Shiraz, tried by Court-martial, and shot
by a firing party. In May Mir Mazkur of Humarjan district,, who had been
trapped bv a Boir Ahmadi relative, was brought in to Shiraz and hung. In the
•same month Khanbaz Bani Abdullahi, son of the Askar Khan hung in 1911, was
hunted down and killed by retainers of Qawam in eastern Fars. A younger
brother of Mir Mazkur, Mir Grhulam, is however still at the head of a band, which
has attacked and killed soldiers and robbed local caravans in the last six months
.of the period.
The son of the late Zair Khidhar of Tangistan ^Muhammad Ali Khan) was
arrested by the military, removed to Shiraz on May 18th and kept in open
'detention there till August. For a greater part of the year their associate
■during the war 1915-18, Mirza Muhammad Khan Burazjani, Ghazanfar-us-
^altaneh, was also detained at IShiraz, and not allowed to return to Burazjan.
Khwajeh Bashi of Kazarun, who had for years disturbed the town and valley
of Kazarun by his intrigues and lawlessness, son-in-law of the even more noto
rious Nasir Diwan, gave difficulties to the Military Governor of Kazarun in
April 1925, was deported and was still in open detention at Shiraz in the spring of
1926, with numerous claims outstanding against him. The Military Authorities
found the presence of Nasir Diwan himself in Kazarun productive of dissen
sions and undermining their authority, so they removed him in July to Shiraz,
whence he was allowed to proceed on pilgrimage to Meshed ; he still has con
siderable ' nationalist ' backing, and was permitted to return to Kazarun in
Xovember, to the annoyance of the Governor.
The valley of Kazarun was indeed more disturbed than distant parts of the
province by several bands of marauders, who terrorized the inhabitants of the
town, set at nought the authority of the Governor and his small detachment of
.soldiers and created an atmosphere for petty robberies from caravans. Thus
British and Iraq firms had one bale of cotton goods carried off near the Khwajeh
Ibrahim caravansarai on March 23 : one bale almost at the same spot on October
35 : two bales near Ja'farjin on 21st September : one box near Gharum at the
•end of August. Persian merchants suffered more frequently : 2 loads of sugar
were robbed in May on the road near Diris : 1 load of cottons early in August
near Kazarnn : 12 donkey loads of sugar and one load of opium at the end of
August : and in September an Amnieh guard was killed while attempting to stop
■a band crossing the road near the place appropriate^ named ' Tul-i-Duzd '. In
July a band of outlaws from Dahleh in the hills to the south-west of Kazarun
attacked and killed several soldiers and roadguards sent to collect their firearms :
and the subsequent marauding of this band as far as the main road from Bushire
made it necessary for a force of tufangchis to be raised to assist the troops in
an expedition to Dahleh in August
But the most serious robbery of the year occurred on December 18th near
Qadirabad on the Isfahan road (which had remained unmolested by robbers
for some tyo years), when a band of Chahar-rahi under Qasim Khan attacked
a caravan of carts and looted some 8 chests of opium, necessitating the dispatch
of 150 cavalry to the Chahar-rahi district. By March 1926 Qasim Khan was
still at large, and had taken to the hills, though his family had been arrested
and several clansmen killed. The new Shah, when receiving the owner of this
opinm in January, told him that he would both have the chests recovered and
the robber hung.
Here it may be noted that the ' Amnieh ' force in Fars fell of in several
ways from the promise it had given in 1923 and early 1924. More robberies
occurred, and compensation was not forthcoming either for Persian or foreign
sufferers. Colonel Sadiq Khan Mu'mini, who as Commandant of all the Amnieh
m South Persia transferred his headquarters to Shiraz from Isfahan in the
spring and remained in control until the end of October, always complained
tnat the central administration of Amnieh in Tehran, had reduced the budget
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The volume includes 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 1925 (GIPS, 1926); 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 1926 (GIPD, 1927); 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 1927 (GIPD, 1928); 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 1928 (GIPS, 1929); [ 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 1929 ] (GIPS, 1930); 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 1930 (GIPS, 1931); . The volume bears some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates 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. , and provide a wide variety of information, including review 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. ; details of senior British administrative personnel and foreign representatives; local government; military, naval, and air force matters; political developments; trade and economic matters; shipping; aviation; communications; notable events; medical reports; the slave trade; and meteorological details.

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1 volume (205 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover and continues through to 207 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears 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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