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'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎18v] (36/416)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (206 folios). It was created in 1932-1936. 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 posts on the Kerman-Bandar Abbas motor road were re-inforced after
Sartip Peysan was wounded by Farsi robbers in the course of their attack on the
Jorry conveying the mails in which the General was his party as passengers.
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Bandar The Sulhieh Court remained closed till October when on the
return of the Governor off leave, it was re-opened under his own presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. .
Linqah and Minab. —No courts have as yet been established at these places
and litigants are obliged to refer their cases to the Governor for arbitration—a
practice which is considered as being most unsatisfactory and a hardship to-
merchants and traders in general.
Customs.
Bandar Abbas.—Mirza, Riza Quli Khan Ashraf returned off inspection in the
first week of January and resumed charge from Monsieur Wolters much to the relief
of the local merchants who had ample reason to complain against the arbitrary
methods employed by the latter.
He remained in office till about the end of the year when he was relieved by
Mirz a Abu Talib Khan Abasalti.
Mirza Reza Quli Khan was very hard working and popular with the mercantile
community. A marked improvement was observed in the Customs House during
his regime.
No important seizures of contraband merchandise were made during the year.
The year was noteworthy for the passage of numerous regulations by the Persian
Parliament which restricted, if not paralized the foreign import trade. Customs
duties were high, if not exorbitant and the surtax of 20 per cent, introduced in April
30 was increased to 80 per cent, in February.
Lingah. —Monsieur Nissan Haim was in charge of the Customs throughout the
year. He is an affable official and anxious to afford reasonable facilities.
Persian Troops.
Bandar A66as.—Sultan Allahyar Khan commanded the troops in the Southern
Gulf Ports till August when he was relieved by Yawar Safar Ali Khan Nusrat.
Sarhang Abbas Khan Alburz, the General Officer Commanding the Brigade
at Kerman paid a visit of inspection, coming via Bushire. He passed through
again in December, en route to the Biyaban district to supervise the operations in
connection with the disarmament of the tribesmen.
No military operations of any importance were undertaken during the year with
the exception of an attempt in March to disarm the Bashakardi tribesmen and again
in December when 700 men were drawn from the Kerman area for the purpose and
were still engaged in the Bashakardi country at the end of the year.
The discipline of the troops was as satisfactory as in the preceding year.
Sartip Mohamed Khan Shahbakhti who accompanied His Majesty Reza Shah
Pahlevi to Kerman, arrived in January to inspect the garrison.
Sartip Nasir-ud-Daula Khan inspected the station in March.
The Conscription law was brought into forcehn this district in October. A
committee presided over by the Governor with the heads of local departments and
five merchants sitting as members was formed to examine persons pronounced fit for
military service by the Census department. Sarhang Farajullah Khan Mushar,
the Officer-in-charge of Conscription attached to the Kerman Brigade arrived to
watch the proceedings of the Committee.
Condition of the country.
Bandar Abbas town. —This was fairly free from crime during the year.
Biyaban. —Except for a dispute between the followers of Mir Barakat Khan
and the Taherzai tribes which started m 1930, the country was conparatively
peaceful.
Condition of the Roads.
The routes leading to Kerman via the Tang-i-Zagh and Tang-i-Zindan remained
practically safe throughout the year. A few attacks on lorries and caravans by

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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 1931 (Simla, Government of India Press: 1932); 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 1932 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1933); 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 1933 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1934); 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 1934 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1935); 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 1935 (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1936). The Report for 1935 shows some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports are divided into chapters relating to the various Agencies, Consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Bushire 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. . Within the chapters there are sections devoted to 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. ; lists of senior personnel; foreign representatives; local government; military and marine affairs; movements of Royal Navy ships; aviation; political developments; slavery; trade and commerce; medical reports and sanitation; meteorological reports and statistics; communications; naval matters; the Royal Air Force; notable events; and related information.

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1 volume (206 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 208 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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