![‘Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., President, representing the Upper India Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Tea Cess Committee.’ [‎55v] (115/178)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x000394/IOR_L_PS_20_17_0115.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "‘Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., President, representing the Upper India Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Tea Cess Committee.’ [‎55v] (115/178)")
‘Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., President, representing the Upper India Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Tea Cess Committee.’ [55v] (115/178)
The record is made up of 1 volume (85 folios). It was created in 1906. 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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REPORT ON THE BRITISH INDIA.N COMMERCIAL
directions also. In this connection considerable reform is
necessary. There is at present open dissatisfaction amongst
British subjects regarding the existing consular arrangements
and methods of dealing with cases.
(7) I would suggest that such commercial houses as desire to push
trade with Persia should make a combine, so far as Southern
Persia is concerned, and send out a common agent, whose head
quarters in winter and spring might be at Bander Abbas, and
in the summer and autumn at Kerman, depots being opened
under native management at Yezd, Bahramabad, Kerman, and
Bam. This agent would have sub-agents under him, at the
various places above mentioned, who would keep him advised
as to trade requirements, which he could in turn verify from
time to time by personal visits, chappering from place to place,
i.e.t using post horses and post houses, instead of going by
caravan, a slow and expensive method of travelling.
(8) The erection of suitable bonded warehouses, private or Government
at Bander Abbas, Bushire, and Mohammerah would enable
stocks to be kept at these ports at a small cost. These stocks
would be worked up-country as required, thus avoiding any
chance of overstocking the market, or allowing Russia to step
in unchallenged to meet the demands of a depleted one. Further,
an enormous saving in interest and in money locked up would
result, meaning, in the case of certain grades of tea, as much as
one hundred per cent. The erection of private Bonded Ware
houses is provided for in the Reglement.
(9) At places where there are already well-established business houses,
advantage might be taken of them to open up agencies. I
feel sure that a ready response would result from any approach
in this direction. Of course care would have to be taken not
to enter into competition with the existing business carried
on by any particular firm.
(10) Lastly, I would strongly recommend firms of standing and
position in Persia becoming members of some one or other of
the Indian Chambers of Commerce, bodies that have done so
much for the interests of Trade in India.
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Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia written by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. The purpose of the commercial mission was to report on the present position and future prospects of the trade of South-Eastern Persia with a view to increasing Indo-Persian Trade.
The report comprises five parts:
Part I – Introduction: inception of mission; route, including journey from Bombay [Mumbai] to Bander Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās].
Part II – General: physical features of country; people; trade statistics and methods; banking industry; agricultural banks; Russian competition; consular matters; engineering (irrigation, railway and harbour construction, mining); customs and imports.
Part III – Trading centres: Bander Abbas; Saiadabad [Sa‘īdābād, or Sirjan]; Bahramabad [Bahrāmābād, or Rafsanjān]; Kerman; Khabis [Shahdād]; Gok [Bāgh Gūk]; Bam; Jiruft [Jīroft] and Rudbar; Yezd; Shiraz; Bushire.
Part IV – Imports and Exports, including chief articles of commerce (statistics, Russian trade, customs tariff) and development of trade.
Part V includes a number of appendices comprising statistical tables of imports and exports, telegraph rates, descriptions of trade routes, costs and times of transport routes, the itinerary of the mission and a map of the caravan routes of South East Persia.
The report was published in Calcutta by the Government of India Foreign Dept, 1906.
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- 1 volume (85 folios)
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The volume contains a table of contents on folio 5 comprising of chapter headings and page references.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at a map in the inside back cover with 87; 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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