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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎148v] (301/418)

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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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The effect on the official class has been depressing in the extreme. With
salaries inadequate to maintain a pleasant standard of life they used to supple
ment their incomes from other sources. With those sources cut off they have
retired into their shell, and gone are the convivial gatherings the little gamblin 0 *
parties so dear to the Persian heart.
10. Loccil Officio/ls, cmd DGpciTtwicufs. — (jr0V6Tn0T-(j&i/i6T(xl» —The Grovemor-
Oeneral, Haji Nasir-us-Sultaneh found it expedient to resign in August, fearing
that having fallen out with his accomplices over the bribes taken in connection
with conscription, the Central Government might take cognizance of the com
plaints that were sure to reach them. He was relieved by Mirza Abul Hassan
Khan Pirnia.
Nasir-us-Sultaneh was a pleasant person to deal with and had no liking for
the Soviet. His successor is a colourless personality of mediocre ability which
he endeavours to mask by a show of officiousness. In his dealins- with the Oon-
sulate he is stiff and formal.
Finance and Revenue. —With the disappearance of American control in 1928
the state of the Finance Department has deteriorated. A prominent official of
the department has stated that 95 per cent, of the Government servants would be
glad to have foreigners back in charge of the Malieh and other departments as
they all realized that efficiency has been steadily declining since the Americans
The Finance Department suffered like others at the hands of the Commis
sion : the Director and two of his staff being put under arrest.
^ The reassessment of revenue of the Kerman Province continued under the
direction of Qazil Ayagh till September when orders were received to suspend
Revenue assessment. ostensl l bl 3 r owing to lack of funds.,
-i ,. i i i/» ji 11 18 somew hat difficult to credit this ex
planation as only half the work has been completed and it has already resulted
m a considerable increase in Government revenue. In some villages the new
assessment is 3 to 4.times the old.
Since the Monopoly law was brought into force in Kerman scarcely a miscal
ot opium has been bought from the Government ambar. Government revenue
Opi um from opium which used to be Tumans
^ ^ p ' . . 15 ^ 00 a year is now not more than 5,000.
he reason for the failure is the antithesis of a restriction of local consumption
and a maintenance of export revenue. An acre of land under opium will yield
a crop which if sold as contraband fetches Tumans 100 to Tumans 150 whereas
sold to Government only Tumans 30.
The main movement of contraband opium into Kerman is from Fars.
In March reports reached Tehran of extensive movements of smuggled
sugar from Lar into the Kerman province. An enquiry was ordered which led
Smuggling'. to ihe seizure of about 1,000 tons of sugar
• i p ji xn' ta . ® 3 ' r i an ail d the implication of various
officials of the Finance Department. The road tax and duty on this quantity
rele'nfed th?" n I ' ave t a ™ 0 ™ lt 1 ed to 6,000. The Government eventually
icleased the confiscated stocks on a payment of Tumans 15,000.
Persian National Bank.— A branch of the National Bank of Persia was
opened at Kerman on September 1st.
con is 1 \ Ion !- 0 S . tailisla y SteImo a Czeeho Slovakian. The staff
consists of 3 ersians, about 8 m number.
A reference to the new Bank's activities will be found in paragraph 4
side^^"/?^ K * la " Alb ^ »» ambitious young man of con-
s aei a lut encrgj and strength of will, who had taken up the post of Chief of
iutri^ier nnd T^in^tb 7 t7 1 ? ade } is pres f !ce markedly felt. He was a born
V i ? ^ at fortune favoured him, lost his head, becomins- too
uo i-handed and corrupt. When the Commission of Enquiry arrived in"Sep
tember they received] dozens of complaints against him. The'worst was a case
! rape f* Y hlch 0 * e of ' hi . s subordinates had assisted. He had endeavoured
o C01er . 11S traces by ordering a minor police official to marry the girl whom he
Fehrmi^tq 1 ftand his* 1 trial. 8 ^ ^ ^ ^^ eventually sent to

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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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