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Coll 28/78 ‘Persia. Economic and trade conditions in Kermanshah’ [‎33r] (65/134)

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The record is made up of 1 file (65 folios). It was created in 6 Sep 1928-10 Jun 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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Xb waa statau In 1 .at year's r< i«rt the stwiflr*
ard of ooKireroial Morality hero is not high. In dealing
with foreign firms the Iranian is rather apt to take
advantage of their in avoidable ignorance of the country
and of thett trust they to sobo extent^** in hie
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WBPl to mik* tiresoEe oobj^I iint» oueh m t$r gooda ord«rod
not being in aooorcUnee with the origin 0, e^ntlee or
eiseoi fie dit lone difficult ebout t*yment •
Thie ie e«^eei*4lly the &ue when the importer finds that
hie gooda *re not finding *e re-Ady a eaerket *e he had
originuily ex^eetedc OcaoD^ared with the J«w, B^hdadi or
other, who on the whole h*» a better conception of the
ethioe of "bus ineea^the ’resent-day I r toil an snerehent
ia too prone to think that he can h*ve hi* cake eat
it ea^eoialiy when he is several thousand mllea away fro®
the ®*n who baked it. he baike also on the knowledge that
hie foreign client will probubiy shrink fro® legal
proceedings oxerrt as a list resort tuid knows that, if he
go to law, ha # the Iranian, will always hnve the i«-
neas arable advantage of being on the spot and knowing
who to sqisure end how to obstruct* ttaless a foreign
firm can here its interests in the courts watched over
by one of the British banks, the isperiaL Bank of Iran
or the ottocm B^nk# its proe^ects of success in any actio*
it m %' bring against a defaulter are snail except in
iehr«si where the legal r refession la perhaps core self-
respecting thjii in the provinces and mere skilled.
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Correspondence and reports relating to economic conditions in the province of Kermanshah in Persia [Iran]:

  • Correspondence dated 1928 relating to a complaint made by the Ottoman Bank, regarding alleged misstatements it had made, as reported by HM’s Consul at Kermanshah, Noel Patrick Cowan, in his commercial report for May 1928 (ff 59-66)
  • Miscellaneous correspondence relating to reports on the economic conditions in Kermanshah, and the distribution of these reports (ff 46-58)
  • A typewritten copy of a report on the economic conditions in the province of Kermanshah, with a mention of Hamadan, for the Persian year 1314 (corresponding to April 1935 to March 1936 in the Gregorian calendar), prepared by the Acting Consul at Kermanshah, Charles Alexander Gault (ff 5-45). The report contains chapters on imports and exports (including those between Iraq and Iran), agriculture, industry, opium production, British trade and foreign competition, Russian interests, Iranian Government monopolies, tax and finances, smuggling, transport, and communications.

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 file (65 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-66; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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