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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [87r] (173/644)
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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475. A little later his confidential agent, Muhandis-ul-Mamalik, was told
at the Ministry of Finance that all the lands in Khuzistan which the sheikh held
under firmans, as well as all the lands which he had bought and which had been
Crown lands (“ khaliseh ”) previously, were the property of the State and would
be confiscated. All lands and properties which were being occupied by troops or
Government Departments would be confiscated without compensation. Any other
properties would be valued and their price deducted from the Ministry of
Finance’s unpaid claim for arrears of taxes amounting to 4 million rials (see
annual reports for 1924 and 1925). If the sheikh did not accept these proposals
he would get nothing at all, and the claim would stand. Muhandis-ul-Mamalik
asked that the proposals should be set down in writing, but this was refused.
476. Subsequently, notices were inserted in the Khuzistan newspapers
stating, inter alia, that the sheikh had no rights on certain properties, and that
any title deeds held from him were worthless. The sheikh then appointed a
lawyer named Fazil-ul-Mulk to defend his claim to his properties in the tribunal
of the Ministry of Finance, but the only result so far has been that he has had
to pay 15,000 rials in stamp fees.
477. The sheikh was rendered practically penniless by these measures, and
now relies entirely on the sums remitted to him from Basra on account of his
properties in Iraq.
478. The Iraq Government continued to insist on levying Istihlak taxes on
the produce of the sheikh’s properties in spite of the representations of His
Majesty’s Embassy.
VI.— Internal Affairs (Economic).
(A) Finance.
Budget 1933-34.
479. The budget for the Persian year 1312, ending the 20th March, 1934,
was passed on the 21st April, 1933. Revenue and expenditure items this year are
shown in rials only, whereas last year some revenue items were shown partly in
rials and partly in sterling, and some expenditure itejns partly in rials and partly
in pahlavis (gold pounds). An exact comparison of the two budgets is thus
somewhat difficult.
480. The current budget provides for a revenue of 506,912,227 rials, and
for expenditure amounting to 506,904,460 rials.
481. As compared with last year, revenue is higher by 85,500,000 rials, but
from this increase must be deducted sterling revenue last year amounting to
£787,000. The net increase in revenue, assuming the rate of exchange to be
80 rials to the pound sterling, is thus rather less than 22,500,000 rials. The
principal increases in revenue were in respect of customs receipts (42 million
rials); indirect taxes (9-5 million); concessions (9 million) and posts and
telegraphs (4-5 million). Opium monopoly and tobacco monopoly receipts in rials
were higher by 12 million rials and 8 million rials respectively, but from these
increases must be deducted the sterling revenue under these heads last year, which
amounted to £500,000 and £60,000 respectively. The yield from direct taxes is
estimated at 2 million rials and £200,000 less than last year (say, a total decrease
of 18 million rials), the yield of the tax on cultivated lands being lower by
15 million rials. Receipts from the Sugar and Match Monopoly are lower by
4-7 million rials, but as the operating expenses of this monopoly are reduced by
oyer 29 million rials, the net revenue from this source is estimated at 72 million
rials as compared with 47 million rials last year. Only a small proportion of the
estimated income of 3 million rials from the working of the sugar
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at
Kerej is likely to materialise.
482. Estimated expenditure is higher than last year by 85-5 million rials,
but last year’s expenditure included items amounting to 40'7,176 pahlavis (gold
pounds). The net increase in expenditure is thus about 22-6 million rials. The
Ministry of War, with a vote of 183,729,980 rials, accounts for a little over 36 per
cent, of the total expenditure. Increased expenditure is also estimated for road
guards (4 -7 million rials), the Ministry of Interior (7 -5 million) and Ministry of
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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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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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