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The record is made up of 1 volume (76 folios). It was created in Feb 1919. 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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Mesopotamia]
FOREIGN TRADE
111
The Consular Reports give very few weights of im
ports to and exports from Baghdad, so that no accurate
assessment is possible of the relation which the Bagh
dad trade bears to the whole trade through Basra; and
it must be remembered that values ol imports and ex
ports (as compared with Basra) are affected by the
high rate of river freight.
A very important quantity of the trade at Baghdad
annually consists of imports to and exports from
Persia rid Khanikin. The chief imports to Persia
from Turkey, as given in the trade returns for Ker-
manshah (almost all of which pass through Baghdad),
consist of sugar, tea, cotton goods, indigo, and tobacco,
of which over 75 per cent, normally come from Great
Britain or India. The chief exports from Persia to
Turkey are carpets, gums, silk, opium, and skins. Im
ports to Persia normally average about £1.000.000,
and exports from Persia about £250,000.
The following table, taken from the Consular
Reports, gives approximate returns of the share in the
trade of Mesopotamia enjoyed by Germany. Russia,
and the United States from 1906 to 1913. These are
the only particulars available:-—
EXPORTS 1
from Basra.
Year.
IMPORTS 1
to Basra.
Germany.
Russia.
1906
1907
1908
£
100,900
153,082
156,019
£
57,320
31,706
1909
83,239
67.606
1910
1911
1912
1913
f 187,2421
\ 170,22* f
294,14
375,760
226,112
78,920
113,368
123,842
158,505
United States. Germany. Russia.
£
91,165
/ 130,499 )
I 116.619 j
f 138,250 i
\ 161,593 /
134,388
128,940
171,800
£
108,650 —
168,000 42,848
235,530 65,676
/ 228,7001 , 0 H oo
| 228,863 J '
315,563 51,584
397,961 60,199
528,41") 76,(558
1,957,489 98,129
1 Alternative figures are ^iven in brackets.
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This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters:
- I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', 'Surface, Coast and River Systems', 'Climate', 'Sanitary Conditions', 'Race and Language' and 'Population';
- II: 'Political History', including 'Chronological Summary', 'Introduction', 'Early period of Turkish Occupation, 1638-1834', 'Later period of Turkish Occupation, 1834-1914', and 'Commercial Developments';
- III: 'Social and Political Conditions', including 'Religious', 'Political', 'Public Education' and 'General Observations';
- IV: 'Economic Conditions', including 'Means of Communication', 'Industry', 'Commerce', 'Finance' and 'General Remarks'.
There is also an appendix which includes tables of 'Exports to Principal Countries from Baghdad', 'Imports from Principal Countries to Baghdad', 'Principal Exports from Basra' and 'Principal Imports to Basra'. This is followed by a section entitled 'Authorities' which is a bibliography of references used for the preparation of the volume. This section is divided into 'Historical' (including 'Confidential Sources'), 'Economic' ('Official' and 'General') and 'Maps'. There is a pocket at the back of the volume to house maps, but there are no maps present.
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Pagination: The volume contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- 'Mesopotamia'
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- front, front-i, 2r:75v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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