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Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia [28r] (55/252)
The record is made up of 1 file (124 folios). It was created in 22 Nov 1900-20 Apr 1905. 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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TRADE METHODS AND CONDITIONS.
5 1
purchased in Russia. The purchaser of a fair consignment (say, 100 bales)
could leave the goods with the bank for any period up to six months, paying
interest at 6 per cent. only. Latterly the bank is reported to be offering less
favourable terms.
Weights and Measures.
Weights and Measures are different for every province, almost for every
town. 3
The principal weights in use are—
16 miskals = i seer.
5 seers = i ker\ankeh or abbasi.
8 abbasis = i man Tabriz.
Tabriz (or Sakat) =
640
miskals
= 6*547 lbs.
avoir.
Shiraz (or 9 abbasi) =
720
))
= 7*366
n
Bushire (or 9J abbasi) =
0
VO
a
= 7*775
n
Kohneh =
1,000
>>
= 10*229
»»
Shah =
1,280
>1
= 13*095
too mans Tabriz = i kharwar = 654766 lbs., or 5*846 cwts.
(The above equivalents in lbs avoir, are calculated according to the
ratio established by the Customs Convention of 1903.)
Other local weights :—
The Bunder-Abbas man, equal to about 9 lbs. (12 mans = 1 cwt.).
The Meshed man, 665 miskals, or about 6 80 lbs.
The Maragha man, of 1,380 miskals, (2^= 1 poud), or about
14*12 lbs.
The Shuster man, reputed to be 1,536 miskals, or about 15*45 lbs.
(7J mans = 1 cwt.
The Hashem man, of 12,160 miskals or about 124 lbs., used in Bushire
and Karun.
The Ismailia man, of 120 okes, and for wheat in the Karun, 135 okes,
or about 3J cwts.
The Busreh man, for dates, about ij cwts.
The Ram Hormuz man, of approximately 100 lbs.
Russian weights :— • .
40 funt = 1 poud.
1 poud = 5*5 mans Tabriz = 36*1127 lbs.
Persian measure of length :—
The unit of measure is the zar, divided into x^ths anda^nds.
In Teheran it is 40 inches in the bazaars, and is calculated in peace
goods business at 41 to 41} inches.
In Shiraz it is about 42 inches.
In Tabriz it is used in piece goods business as equal to 113 centimetres
or 44 J inches, or as 19 Tabriz zars equal to 30 Russian arshines’
from which 1 zar = 44-2 inches.
In Meshed it is about 41 inches.
The Russian arshine is 28 inches.
Transport.
There are only two routes in Persia over which merchandise is trans
ported by wagon, the Resht-Teheran and Ashkabad-Meshed roads.
The ordinary means of transport are camel, mule, and donkey caravans.
H 2
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The file contains reports and correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], including reports on trade and trade routes in Persia.
It includes:
- A copy of the ‘Report Received from Mr H.W. Maclean, the Special Commissioner Appointed by the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade, on the Conditions and Prospects of British Trade in Persia.’
- A copy of a letter from Arthur Henry Hardinge, HM Minister at Tehran, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Marquess of Lansdowne (Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice), enclosing an annual report prepared by Evelyn Grant Duff, Secretary of Legation, Tehran, on events in Persia during the year 1904
- Copies of the reports ‘Reconnaissance from Kondi on the Seistan Trade Route via Mashkhel-Hamun and Panjgur…’ and ‘Reconnaissance and Estimate for a Railway from Nushki to the Helmand and thence to the Persian frontier at Bund-i-Seistan’
- Copies of printed despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, forwarding copies of the weekly Diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai (for the weeks ending 16 February, 8 March, 24 March, 31 March, and 24 October 1901, and 31 March and 8 April 1902), and a copy of the report ‘Trade Returns of the Quetta-Seistan Trade Route, for the year 1900-1901.’ by Captain Frank Cooke Webb-Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai
- Printed copies of the Diary of Captain Robert Arthur Edward Benn, HM Vice-Consul for Seistan and Kain (for the period ending 31 March, 11 April, 30 April, 15 May, 17 June, and 15 September 1901).
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- 1 file (124 folios)
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The papers are arranged in no apparent order within the file.
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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 126; 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.
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- Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia
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- front, front-i, 2r:125v, 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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