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Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’ [‎4v] (19/1174)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (583 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1930-1 Feb 1937. It was written in English, French and Persian. 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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Budget for 1936-1937,
The budget estimates for the financial year 1936-7, approved in March,
provided for revenue and expenditure of approximately 1 , 000 , 000,000 rials,
being an increase of approximately one-third on the estimates for the pre
ceding year. As no returns of actual revenue and expenditure during a
given year are ever published, the interest in the official figures can only
be partial. Provision is made in the budget for the expenditure of 150
million rials on railway construction, this being only a part of the esti
mated cost under this heading for the financial year. In the supplementary
budget law a further sum of 150 million rials for railway construction is to
be provided from the sugar and tea monopoly tax fund—the doubtful as
sumption being made that the fund contains so^ large a sum—together with
£ 1 , 000,000 sterling from reserve funds. The cost of railway construction
and supplies for the year is thus estimated at three hundred million rials in
currency, equivalent to £3,750,000 at the present rate of exchange, plus
£ 1 , 000,000 from the sterling reserves held abroad- Further sterling sums
to be obtained from the diminishing national reserve include £ 2 , 000,000
for military supplies and £80,000 on account of further payments for sugar
factories.
Currency.
The expansion of the currency circulation continues, the figure being
698.933.450 rials on March 6 th as compared with 421,653,450 on March
21st, 1935. During the same period the total backing (gold and silver)
decreased from 19T65 per cent, to 108-23 per cent. The increase in note
circulation is bound to continue in order to provide for the capital of the
new companies constantly being formed, and as His Imperial Majesty
apparently insists on a minimum cover of one hundred per cent., orders are
reported to have been placed ( Cf Setareh-ye-Djehane of February 12 th), for
the purchase of a further quantity of gold bullion. These orders, if carried
out, will of course add still more to the existing stringency of foreign ex
change. With the present rates of exchange and the reduced price of
silver there is little or no inducement for silver coins to be smuggled out of
the country, but very few silver coins remain in circulation.
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Monopoly Developments.
The formation of new trading and industrial companies continues
many of which the Government participates either directly or
indirectly. Export monopolies have been constituted in respect of carpets,
.iron, assa foetida, cotton, wool, skins, rice, etc., and import monopolies
m respect of silk goods, alcoholic drinks, playing cards. At the present
rate of progress all the main export commodities will be in the hands of
monopoly concerns by the end of the year, and many categories of imports
The sphere of activities of private traders—who naturally have less oppor
tunities for obtaining foreign exchange than semi-Government concerns—is
becoming more and more circumscribed, and the outlook for them is not
promising. A State insurance concern, known as the “Iran” Societe
ttwT 6 d f LS ? uranc ?’ has be g un t0 function, but no steps have vet been
^JngtlL 01 mterfere With f0reign inSUrai “ Ce Janies
Industry,
Machinery is being acquired from abroad for further cotton sninnir
and wearmg nulls, as well as for the manufacture of other comClit"
such as paper, galoshes, ladies’ clothes, woollen goods glassware hr-Jel-
pottery, chemical products, boots and shoes. Plant for the Son of
" b6in ? im P° rted ^ German;
blast furnaces for iron and steel productionn^f'xetor^Thk 116 t0 b^ 1
nearer the realization of the ^-delayed ^tnlzaSn
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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department) relating to Persia [Iran]. The original correspondence was exchanged between British representatives in Persia (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran), the Foreign Office, and the 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. . The correspondence concerns: the announcement by the Persian Government of laws, decrees, regulations, budgets, and other governmental communiqués, the texts of which were usually published in Persian newspapers (including Le Journal de Tehran , Shafaq-e-Surkh , Le Messenger de Teheran and Iran ); reports on provincial affairs in Persia, chiefly in the form of reports submitted by British Consuls; Persia’s foreign relations, particularly those with Soviet Russia [Soviet Union, USSR]; correspondence dated 1929 and 1930 reporting on events in northern Persia (Azerbaijan and Khorasan) where large numbers of Russian refugees settled in the wake of the October Revolution; copies of diplomatic exchanges between the British Legation in Tehran and the Persian Government, the latter represented by figures including the Persian Prime Minister Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Feroughi, the Minister of the Court of Iran Abdolhossein Teymourtash, and Hassan Ali Ghaffari of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the activities of the Shah, with a particular focus on his modernisation policies that were implemented across Persia during the 1930s.

A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Persian Government laws, Persian newspaper articles, and correspondence from Persian politicians. The file also includes a memorandum on the Persian renderings of ‘imperial’ that contains Persian text (ff 305-306).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (583 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 579; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English, French and Persian in Latin and Arabic script
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