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Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’ [42r] (87/318)
The record is made up of 1 file (156 folios). It was created in 10 Dec 1928-5 Jun 1942. 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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V
by the Shirtcat during the current year and all
crops are being taken ovei by them. Cotton is
in demand for both local and foreign markets.
Large deliveries of cotton are mode to the Russians
each year at Hoodan under the Russi'o-Iran Trade
Agreement. With a view to increasing the crop
and improving the condition of cultivators it has
been decided to prohibit the growing of local
seed cotton in future. The Shirkat is arranging
to provide farmers with Pilestani and .American
seeds.
(b) Live stock .
Large flocks of sheep and goats are kept
in the Khorasan Province and the demand for wool,
soft wool and goat hair, sheep and lamb skins,
has been very satisfactory during the oast two
years. In 1313 the number of sheep and goats
were estimated at 1,900,000 and 450,000 respective
ly. The main increase is in Gharakol sheeo as
there has been an excellent and steady demand
! for these skins in the London and Hamburgh mar-
j kets. Gharakol skins exported from Khorasan in
the years 1313, 1314 and 1315 amounted to approxi
mately 75,000, 80,000 and 100,000 pieces respec
tively at an average price of rials 70 to 80
per piece.
IV. OPIUM .
The crop was satisfactory in the Khorasan
Province and the Maliyeh Department purchased
some 1,200 kharwars of opium during the
year. Nearly half the quantity purchased was
sent to Ispahan and the balance was used in the
Khorasan and Mazanderan districts. It is said
that large quantities of opium were smuggled
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Annual commercial reports for the provinces of Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (from 1936, referred to as the provinces of Khorāsān and Mekran [Makran]), submitted by the British Consul for Sistan and Kain (from 1936, the British Consul-General for Khorāsān, Meshed [Mashhad]) (Clarmont Percival Skrine; Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly; Major Everard Huddleston Gastrell; Captain Giles Frederick Squire). The reports include sections on:
- trade (including imports, exports, foreign goods, openings for British goods)
- finance (including banking activity, bankruptcies).
- taxation
- Persian military (including the commandeering of transport, effects of conscription)
- agriculture (including irrigation, opium production)
- industry (including new industries, electricity generation, demand for foreign machinery)
- communications and transport (roads, railways)
- social conditions (standard of living, unemployment, public health and hygiene)
- appendices with statistical tables on imports and exports on the Nushki to Duzdap [Zahedan] railway, imports and exports via Zahedan, freight rates, and rates for animal transport
Preceding each report is an 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. minute paper, containing handwritten notes commenting on the contents of the report. The file also includes a small amount of official correspondence relating to the contents of the reports, and a number of other reports prepared by the British-Consul General, relating to the commercial situation in eastern Iran, and Iranian trade with Russia.
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- 1 file (156 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 157; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
An additonal foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-156; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.
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- Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’
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- front, front-i, back-i, back, 2r:157v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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