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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [312r] (628/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. 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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Sheikh Abdul Kassim Harandi, the Russian Sales Agent in Kerman, has im
ported machinery for supplying electric light to the town and is at present busy
putting up poles and wires under the superintendence of a Russian Engineer. The
Municipality have been in negotiation with the proprietor with a view to parti
cipating in the scheme.
Agriculture and Locusts. —An Armenian employee of the Department of Agri
culture arrived from Tehran in August to establish a farm in Kerman. Besides
selecting an old garden, a part of an endowed property, for this purpose, nothing
was achieved till the end of the year.
M. Lois. Niquit, a foreign expert, employed by the Persian Government, arrived
in December and, after visiting the salt mines near Bam, and the forests in Narma-
shir, returned to the Capital.
The Province was free from the locust pest during the year, a single report
being received from certain villages of Narmashir of damage being caused by these
insects to the indigo crop.
Sejjil-i-Ahwaal. —Prince Murteza Mirza, Qahrmani, remained in charge of the
Census Department until the end of the year.
The Department has now established branches throughout the Province, and,
in November, a notice was published calling upon those who had not already
obtained identification papers to do the needful immediately as the new Law passed
by the Medjliss provided for heavy penalties in cases of default.
12. Local Politics and Press. 1931 has been uneventful in the political sense.
Notwithstanding the Shah’s disparaging remarks at the time of his visit in re
gard to the status of the Province, Kerman still remains an Ayalat and the districts
of Bam-Narmashir and Rafsinjan have not been separated from it.
The influence of the Mullahs has continued to wane.
During the year 1931 the Ashura (Moharram) processions were much curtailed
in the town and the districts by orders of the local authorities. There was no public
laceration of the head and at Bam a number of the mourners, who had prepared
themselves, for this ceremony, were dispersed by the Military who gallopped their
horses amongst them, as the result of which 2 or 3 people were injured.
Press .— There are nominally four papers being published in Kerman, of which
two are more or less regular. Nothing objectionable from the point of view of
British interests has appeared in the local Press and in the month ox May the
editor of ‘ Istiqamat ’ published a long article expressing warm appreciation of the
services rendered by Colonel Noel to the Province.
13. Health and General Welfare. — No steps were taken to improve the sanitation
of the town and the same unhealthy practices prevalent 24 years ago still exist
today. The epidemic of mumps which had broken out at the end of 1930 lasted
till the autumn. It was followed in November by a general epidemic of influenza
which was still raging at the close of the year.
Reports of cholera declared in April last to have occurred at Rafsinjan, 3 days
march to the west, were so contradictory as to hardly justify the drastic measures
taken by the authorities. The measures taken by the local Health Department
included the cutting-off the water supplies of distant non-infected areas and the
institution of quarantine on the western side of Kerman though no suspected cases
had been reported east of Rafsinjan itself !
Dr. Mehdi Khan, Philosoph, was the Health" Officer, Kerman, at the end of the
year.
14. Russian Interests. —The Soviet Consul-General at Ispahan visited Kerman
during February-March.
M. Belooshapkin, the Soviet Trade Representative in Kerman, was reheved
in July by M. Khalatofi, and M. Matulaitis was in charge of the Soviet Trade Re
presentation at the end of the year. During the summer Soviet trade activities
in the Province dwindled slightly but revived in the latter part of the year, as the
result of the signing of the Commercial Treaty with Persia. Their interests
extended in the direction of experimental cultivation of cotton seeds and one of their
agents, a certain Seyyid Ismail Agha, Vakili, of Tabriz, was deputed to travel m the
districts to instruct the peasants.
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This volume contains copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by the Political 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. in Bushire and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. .
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- 1 volume (510 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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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