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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [178v] (361/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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48
ADMINISTEATION 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.
have made an annual pilgrimage to the Nijni Novgorod fair, where the
make their purchases and dispose of their goods. It would be possible /
change this, now very unnatural, proceeding, but for the fact that the Russian
merchants give credit and frequently long credit, thus enabling the Persiai
merchant to delay his payment, a fact which always appeals to him even
though he knows that he must be paying interest for his delay.
Notwithstanding that 1 have written pointing out the value of thp
Hamadan and Kermanshah markets, and that I have requested that Chambers
of Commerce should be sent copies of my letters, I have up to date received
no enquiries and no samples, except from two firms whom I approached
direct. In woollen goods there is a market of £30,000 annually which is
almost entirely in foreign hands and which total could be considerably
increased, but apparently British merchants are frightened by the unsettled
condition of the country. As a matter of fact the state of the country makes
very little difference where important and reputable merchants are concerned
It is, further, as safe to deal with such men as with their confreres in India
for they cannot afford to leave unmet bills which are due, any more than
could a merchant in a big business either in England or in India. The
mistake most foreign firms make is leaving their work to agents who are
Persians or Jews, but in either case unreliable men; thus bad debts crop up
through sales to merchants who are unreliable as payers.
The whole question turns on
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
and if several companies would
despatch here a good agent for a year as a trial, they would speedily be doing
a large business, since not only would they supply the big merchants but the
smaller fry and the retail sellers also. I wrote to the Cawnpore Woollen Mills
in the above terms, but nothing has come of it. I then approached Messrs.
Blockey, Cree & Co., agents at Baghdad, and they have referred the question
home to their head office, telling me that they have always known that the
time must come for such a move. In the meantime, Messrs. Berk, Puttmann
& Co., the German Baghdad firm, have, as I am informed, taken a house in
Kermanshah on a year's lease, with a view to starting an
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
of the kind
I have been suggesting for so long.
There is a special opening for cheap boots and shoes not of the hobnail
or farmer type, but tEe ordinary Oxford shoe and boot, both being of strong
make with toes inclined to be pointed.
When there is a branch of the Bank at Hamadan, it will give a great
fillip to our trade. It is difficult to understand why one has not been opened
before now. Kermanshah is a paying branch and Hamadan has about five
times the turnover that Kermanshah has.
European Dr. Bongrand arrived from Tehran on the 23rd April and after a short
visitors. stay proceeded to Kasr-i-Shirin to institute a quarantine against plague on
the frontier, in which work he was assisted by M. Cesari, at that time employ
ed by the Customs department. Dr. Bongrand returned to Kermanshah with
M. Cesari in June, having suffered greatly from fever, and returned to
Tehran some time in July during my absence. M. Cesari quarrelled with
the Customs department over some details and was finally dismissed. He
died at the end of the year.
Dr. Kurt Jung, Commercial Delegate from the German Embassy at
Constantinople, was deputed by the German Goveriiment to study trade pros
pects in Persia. He arrived on the 29th April and left for Hamadan (thence
to Ispahan) on the 6th May.
Lieutenant Williams, 4th Cavalry, Army Remount Department, arrived
at Kermanshah on the 6th June in command of a deputation for purchasing
mules. Lieutenant Farran, 4th Cavalry, his assistant, arrived with the main
party of the deputation on the 14th June. Lieutenant Farran was invalided
home, leaving Kermanshah on the 30th September. Lieutenant Williams
purchased some 500 mules and left for Baghdad in the middle of October.
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The volume contains Administration Report on 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 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on 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 Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); 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 Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and 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 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews 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. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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There is a list of contents at the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 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. 40, 261.
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