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Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’ [43r] (89/318)
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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into Russia via Turkestan. The Government has
decided to reduce the cultivation of opium and per
mits have to he taken out in order to grow it in
future. Cotton and sugar heet have to he grown
instead.
In the Kain district production was helow nor
mal amounting only to 17,000 Ihs. Of this amount
13.000 Ihs was Purchased hy the Government and the
balance of 4,000 Ihs together with an equivalent
amount smuggled in from Afghanistan was illegally
disposed of at rather less than half the price
charged for Government opium.
V. INDUSTRY .
(a). New Industries .
Some particulars of the more important factories
erected in the Khorasan Province during the past
few years are given helow.
(i) Khorasan Leather
factory
An East India Company trading post.
.
Installed In 1313. Cost Rials 3,500,000. Value
of leather produced in 1314 was approximately Rials
4,000,000. The output of 1315 is expected to reach
Rials 6,000,000. This
factory
An East India Company trading post.
has contracted with
the Ministry for War to supply hoots and shoes
value Rials 5,000,000.
(ii) Ab-l-Kuh Simar
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
.
This
factory
An East India Company trading post.
was opened infeeptemher 1936 by
the Prime Minister and the Director of Industries.
The
factory
An East India Company trading post.
worked for forty days only taking in
35.000 khar^wars of heet, which produced 3,500 to
4.000 kharwars of sugar.
(iii) Alcohol and Arak Distlller.y .
A Russian made Sawal plant was installed during
the year hy the Shlrkat-i-Noosh, costing Rials 150,000
The daily output is 2,000 bottles.
(iv) . Khosrovl Spinning and ./eavinr Mllils .
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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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3415
- Title
- 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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- Open Government Licence