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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎28r] (60/418)

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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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end I was able to convince His Excellency that he had, without proper reflection,
started a movement whic hwould have far reaching consequences most injurious
to the trade on which Kerman depended for its livelihood ; and to persuade him
to suspend action till we had some authority for believing such water to be actually
injurious and then, if necessary, to permit some friendly discussion with the
carpets interests of the place as to a remedy. A sanitary committee met and
decided that they could not possibly say whether the prevailing practice was
mjunous oi not and anyhow that there were many other practices more
obviously injurious ro public health common in the town which ought to be
dealt with first. The Governor General then dropped the matter.
But the effect of these attacks on the 0. C. M. was to cause that firm serious
enough loss. During the summer when His Excellency was at Mahun the turn
out from the looms in that place dropped from 7 or 800 square yards the month
to a little over 300 square yards. Encouraged by the campaign against the
him weavers and shagirds had got slack and deliberately shirked work and
the management had not dared to keep them strictly up to the mark. It was
Til 0 ? to the end of the y ear before outturn again became normal in the looms
at Mahun.
Although the progress of British trade is a subject which will be dealt with
tully m the Annual Trade Report, brief mention mav be made here of the
activities of Mirza Ali Asghar Moinzada, Honorary Correspondent of the
-London Chamber of Commerce. Steady efforts to get him into direct business
relations with various British exporting houses succeeded in starting the ball
lolling ; and a beginning has at last been made. In the summer—as a con-
sequence of reports from this Consulate regarding the gradual ousting of
A. 1. (J. G. oil by Russian oil, a representative of the A. P. 0. C. visited Kerman
with the object of opening a sales agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for A. P. 0. C. products in Kerman
and districts. The agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. was given to Moinzada. This move had satisfactory
political results, for it knocked a decided hole-in the Russian competition.
7. Political Interests of the Consulate. —While the Consulate was involved in
the unpleasant struggle between Vossuq-es-Saltaneh and the 0. C. M., a case in
which an Armenian employee of the I. E. T. D. was concerned provided a fresh
embarrassment. An Armenian Signaller, named Galessiantz, accused a voung
man known as Bahjat-us-Sultan, a professional musician and go-between, of
breaking into his house at night with evil intent and of assaulting his wife
during his absence on ducy. The good officers of the Consulate were asked for '
by the Superintendent in charge of the I. E. T. D. The case went to the State
Courts, and there it stuck, thanks largely to the influence of the Officer Com
manding wno was a friend of Bahjat's and engineered to ^counter case against
Galessiantz. The only way in which I could attempt to make my good offices
effective was to ask tne Governor General to do what he could to expedite
things. In spite of promises the Governor General not only did nothing helpful
ut did his best to make^mischief between myself and the Karguzar and officials of
the department of Justice. I inally (yielding I suppose to the Officer Command-
mg's persuasions) he went so far as to transfer the accused Bahjat to a sub-
governorship in a district near Kerman. The personal protest I was compelled
to make at this step, vhich would have made further proceedings in the case
futile, though it did not improve my relations with H. E., resulted" in the orders
bemg cancelled. But the case has never yet been decided. It has furnished an
unhappy proof of the incompetence or subservience of the' State Courts, and of
the difficulties in practice of exercising the " special good offices " which are
enjoined on Consuls in respect of the Persian employees of the I. E. T. D.
Several other side issues cropped up in the course of this case and of the
campaign against the 0. C. M.— such as the right of police officers to arrest
employees of the I. E. T. D. without warning, forcible entry into the houses
of British subjects, etc., all of which were in the end adjusted as satisfactorily
as might be. * •
These incidents showed how easily our peculiar position in Persia can
occasion unpleasantness between the Consulate and Persian officials when there
may be the best will in the world, on one side, to steer clear of them. The
Medina incident, which followed in the early autumn, showed in its turn how
ready public opinion is to suspect the British of evil intentions. A malicious
word or two in private .and in public gave birth to a general rumour that the
British were at the bottom of the bombardment of Medina. The Governor
general on this occasion did his best, I believe, to prevent any anti-British
demonstration and speeches and the dav of mourning passed off without any
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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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