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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎84r] (167/644)

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The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. 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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[10152] f 2
67
British affairs on the departure of Mirza Muhammad Khan Shayesteh in
December.
435. Mirza Farrukh Khan Braghon relinquished the direction of the
Protocol Department at the end of the year, and his brother, Mirza Assad Khan
Assad Braghon, took over from him.
Obituary.
436. The following well-known Persians died during the year :—
Haji Hussein Agha Amin-uz-Zarb.
Haji Muhammad Ali Rais (Rais-ut-Tujjar), C.I.E.
Mirza Sadiq Khan Akbar ( Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Mu’tamid).
Mirza Suleiman Khan Meykedeh.
(C) Majlis.
Elections.
437. The eighth Majlis came to an end on the 15th January, but it was
not until the 15th March that a sufficiently large number of the new Deputies
had reached Tehran to make the opening of the ninth Majlis possible.
438. The new Deputies were almost all the same people as the old ones, and
as much as ever the puppets of the Shah. Nevertheless, they were often men
of position and local influence, and as a body might prove capable, in the event of
a demise of the Crown or some similar emergency, of ensuring that the Majlis
was not an entirely negligible factor.
Opening of the Ninth Majlis.
439. The Shah’s speech at the opening ceremony was chiefly notable for
its insistence upon the need for rapid industrialisation, which was already being
carried out at a pace which the country could hardly stand, and for a reference
to a scheme for the division of the Crown lands. This scheme undoubtedly owed
its inception to the Shah’s known desire to change the nomad tribesmen of the
Empire into peaceful cultivators with all possible speed. A beginning had
already been made in Sistan, where the lands of the Baluch Sardars had been
divided among the peasantry. Large numbers of Lurs and Kurds had also been
settled in distant parts of Persia.
440. Muhammad Hussein Khan Dadgar was again elected President of
the Majlis.
Legislation.
441. The following list of enactments is taken, in chronological order,
from the Official Review of the Ministry of Justice. It includes only those
enactments which are of general interest, and does not include certain laws
alluded to elsewhere in this report:—
(1) Law authorising the Ministry of Finance to assign to certain khans of
the Shah-sevan tribe certain Government land in Azerbaijan.
(2) Decision of the Council of Ministers concerning the packing of tea for
import into Persia.
(3) Decision of the Council of Ministers concerning the export of
agricultural oils and reed pens.
(4) Law concerning the expenses of study of ninety Persian students sent to
Europe for training in railway management.
(5) Law engaging an expert in bottle-making from Italy.
(6) Law specifying the punishment of army officers who submit reports
contrary to fact.
(7) Law granting an additional credit of 1,100,000 rials for the construction
of railways.
(8) Law sanctioning the payment of the cost of construction of a telegraph
line between Shiraz and Tall-i-Khusruvi.
(9) Law sanctioning an additional credit of 100,000 rials for seed grain to
be distributed among the Lurs.
(10) Law concerning weights and measures.

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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).

The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the 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. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).

Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.

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 (320 folios)
Arrangement

The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 321; 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 file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A

Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.

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