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'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎128v] (256/416)

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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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CiUnUm AK Sabz the notorious renegade Road Guard referred to in last
year’s Administration Report as having Deen persuaded to return to the fold
>ear s all fhnrities in their disarmament work, committed a murder in
the^ course private dlspute. The local officials got rid of him by the t™
honoured, cheap and efficient method long approved of m Iran. One of the
leading lien of Chahkutah was made to invigle him into his house and there
shoot down his guest in cold blood,
A gang of malefactors of Chahkutah a village on the Bushire-Shiraa
road was dealt with in the same wa}«
A Deputy Governor was appointed in Bandar Rig as Governor of Hyat-
Pr ,T TPlloh and Liravi and the chiefs of the districts namely :
I Ui r\ 11 rl
Allah Karam Khan,
Ali Khan, son of All Khan,
Muhammad Khan,
Aqa Khan,
yvere ordered to proceed to Shiraz forthwith. One of them namely Allah Karara
Khan complied with the order but the others are trying to obtain permission
to remain at their homes.
PcvsiQifi Mckvcifif Jask and ChaTkaT . At Jask the Oable and Wireless
employees complained of encroachments on their area by the local Persian
authorities.
At Charbar owing to complaints by British Indian subjects, who were in
difficulties with the local Persian authorities over the question of their nation
ality, under instructions from His Majesty’s Minister, the Interpreter of the
Kerman Consulate visited that port in June and in November Dr. Lincoln, His
Majesty’s Consul, Kerman, visited the same place in connection with the same
complaints and was there at the end of the year.
Up to October the administration of Jask and Charbar was carried out by
the Chief Police official stationed there. In that month, however, a Governor
for each port was sent down from Tehran*
The Persian authorities, in spite of all their efforts, do not appear to be
capable of coping with the turbulent inhabitants of this Province and the condi
tion of the country remains disturbed and unsettled.
Chirag Khan and Murad Khan, sons of Mustafa Khan (to whom the W ire
less and Cable, Ltd. pay a subsidy for the protection of their lines) combined
with another Chief called Kainaran Khan and raided in July Gerog, Jagin,
Bahmadi and Yakdar. Ten persons were killed or kidnapped. Huts belonging
to friendly Baluchis were destroyed, and several hundred camels, sheep, goats
Carried off. In the same month the raiders also looted a Customs post at
Sadich, wounded 2 Customs officials and decamped with merchandise worth
Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 400 and 4 rifles.
Discontent was rife at Charbar, Jask and districts as a result of the high
handed treatment which the people received at the hands of the Iranian civil
and military officials. Many of the inhabitants migrated to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and Gwadur. 250 families dependants of Bahut Gul Muhammad went to
Gwadur alone.
_ As a result of numerous complaints received at Tehran an Inspecting
Mission visited Charbar in February to investigate grievances. Enquiries were
instituted and some of the Persian Baluchis were persuaded to return to theii'
homes. In February the Persian Consul, Quetta, went by aeroplane to Gwadur,
tmd then by camel to^ Jiunri, Pish-Khan and Suntesar where he tried to per
suade Persian Baluchi emigrants to return to their homes but without success.
In March Brigadier-General Mehdi Khan, Officer Commanding, Baluchis
tan district, marched a large force to Iranshah Leshar to disarm the tribes
m those districts. Several of the leading Chiefs were invited on the usual
svorn promise of safe conduct and free pardon to come into camp, make their
peace with the authorities and surrender their arms.
k v ^?^i 0ne named Ashraf Khan apparently an unsophisticated
individual was taken in by the fair words of the Iranian Commander. _ He and
a numoei of his followers surrendered themselves and gave up their arms.
They were all immediately placed under arrest.
Tho geneial result of this “ drive ” for arms carried out by General
■*' e 1< ^ 1 Rhan v^as poor and few rifles and ammunition Were collected.

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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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