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61. 'Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1877-78.'
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- Abstract: Administration report of the Persian Gulf Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1877-78, published by Authority at the Foreign Department Press, Calcutta [Kolkata], 1878. The report is based on reports sent by the Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross) and the Political Agent at Muscat (Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles) to the Government of India. The report is preceded by a copy of a letter sent by Ross to Alfred Comyn Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, dated 8 July 1878, which enclosed the submission of the original reports.The report is organised in a number of sections and subsections, as follows:Part I: General Report, signed by Ross, and arranged under subheadings as follows: Oman; Arab Coast; Bahrein [Bahrain]; Nejd [Najd]; Province of Fars and the Persian Coast and Islands; Bushire; Coast from Bushire to Lingah [Bandar Lengeh]; Lingah; Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas]; Persian-Baloochistan [Baluchistan] Coast; Bassidore [Bāsaʻīdū]; Establishments; Slave-Trade; Appendices (including meteorological tables, notes on the Kara Aghach River by Dr Friedrich Carl Andreas*, the route from Bushire to Lar and Shiraz, and the route from Lar to Shiraz, the Persian Post Office and Foreign Postage, and tables of Persian money and measurements).Part II: Report on trade of the Persian Gulf for the year 1877, signed by Ross and arranged under subheadings, as follows: Effects of late war on the trade; Steam communication; Grain harvest; Scarcity of coin; Opium; Pearl fisheries; Impediments to development of trade in Persia; and appendices (including notes on the pearling industry by Captain Edward Law Durand, notes on date palm cultivation by James Charles Edwards, and 31 tables of trade statistics covering imports/exports from/to the various ports and settlements of the Persian Gulf, and between the Persian Gulf and India).Part III: Administration report of the Political Agency, Muscat, for the year 1877-78, prepared by Miles and arranged under the following subheadings: Political; Official changes; Slave Traffic.Part IV: Trade statistics for Muscat, prepared by Miles, and comprising of six tables covering imports, exports, and number and tonnage of vessels entering and leaving the port.* Folio 246 - a map has been temporarily removed and replaced with a green sheet of paper noting its removal.Physical description: Pagination: The report has a pagination system which uses numbers printed in the top-left corner of versos and top-right corner of rectos.
62. ‘Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muskat Political Agency for the year 1878-79.’
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- Abstract: Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muskat [Muscat] Political Agency for 1878-79, published by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India (Calcutta), forming part of the Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department, and based on reports sent to Government by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Muscat.The report is divided up into a number of sections and subsections, as follows:Part 1,is a General Report (folios 102-107) written by Edward Charles Ross, Resident in the Persian Gulf that gives a summary of developments in the region during the past year. It is divided up as follows:1. 'Oman;2. Arab Coast;3. Bahrain;4. Nejd, El Hasa [Al Hasa], El Katr [Qatar];5. Southern Persia;6. Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū];7. Establishments;8. Slave Trade.Part 1 contains the following appendices (folios 107v-115):Appendix A: contains a number of meteorological tables in Bushire and Shiraz during the previous year.Appendix B: 'Description of the Bahrain Islands' by Captain Edward Law Durand, First Assistant Resident, Persian Gulf.Appendx C: 'Memorandum on the Topography, &c., of Khuzistan or Persian Arabia, by P J C Robertson, Esq., Assistant Political Agent, Busrah [Basra].Part 2, is a Report on Trade of the Persian Gulf for 1878 (folios 116-119) written by Edward Charles Ross, Resident in the Persian Gulf. It also contains a Memorandum on the Opium of Persia written by George Lucas, Uncovenanted Assistant to the Political Resident, Persian Gulf.Part 2 contains the following appendices (folios 119v-159):Appendix A: Memorandum on cultivation of a village in one of the Boolooks (districts) of Shiraz.Appendix B: Three tables related to the number of vessels engaged in trade in Oman, Bahrain and from Lingah to Dayer.Appendix C: A series of 29 tabular statements relating to numerous aspects of trade in the region.Part 3, is an Administration Report of the Political Agency Muskat, for the year 1878-79 (folio 159v-160) written by Samuel Barrett Miles, Political Agent and Consul, Muskat. The report provides a summary of developments in Muskat and the surrounding region during the previous year.Part 3 contains the following appendix:Appendix A: 'Memorandum on Geography of 'Oman' by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles, Political Agent and Consul, Muskat.Part 4, is a Muskat Trade report written by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles, Political Agent and Consul, Muskat (folios 162v-169). The report contains a number of tabular statements related to trade to/from Muskat during the previous year.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio, on number 98, and ends on the last folio, on number 169.Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
63. ‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muskat Political Agency for the year 1879-80’
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- Abstract: Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Residency and Muskat [Muscat] Political Agency for 1879-80, published by Authority at the Foreign Department Press, India (Calcutta), and forming part of the Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department (No. 171) and based on reports sent to Government by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Muscat. The report is preceded by a copy of a letter sent by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf , to A. C. Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, dated 30 June 1880, which enclosed the submission of the original reports to the Government of India (folios 290-91).The report is divided up into a number of sections and subsections, as follows:1. General Report for 1879-80, prepared by Ross (folios 291-308), which is divided a number of small reports, organised by region, as follows: 1. ’Omán or Muskat State; 2. Pirate Coast; 3. El-Bahrain; 4. Nejd, El-Hasá [Al-Hasa] and El-Katr [Qatar]; 5. Southern Persia; and 6. Bassidore [Bāsa‘īdū]. The reports detail the state of local affairs in each region, including relations between tribes and rulers, disease, incidents of piracy, migrations. The report for Southern Persia contains a separate report for Fars. The report for Bassidore includes reports on: political appointments; royal naval activity, postal affairs; observatory activity; and administration of the trade in mules in Persia. Four appendices follow the report: A. List of Guttur (or El-Katr) [Qatar] ports and names of chiefs and main tribes; B. Terms of a mutual agreement entered into by the Trucial Chiefs of the Oman Coast through the medium of Hajee Abul Kassim, Moonshee, specially deputed on this service, and Hajee Abdur Rahman, Government Agent, Arab coast, dated 24 June 1879; C. tabulated meteorological data from the Bushire Residency Observatory; D. Notes upon the breeding, treatment, etc., of the Persian mule, and upon Persia as a source of supply for mules, written by Lieutenant I MacIvor, Assistant Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.2. A Memoir on Nejd, prepared by Ross (folios 308-21), comprising an outline history of the Wahábees [Wahhābī] of Nejd and the Ál-Su’ood [Āl Sa‘ūd] Amirs, from 1691 to the present day, and a number of appendices: A. Genealogical of the Āl Sa‘ūd; B. List of principal districts and towns of Nejd; C. Tribes of Nejd; D. List of authorities and sources of information availed of in preparing Memoir of Nejd.3. Report on trade for 1879,prepared by Ross, dated 26 May 1880 (folios 321-56), comprising a summary of the year’s harvest and trade; the Commercial Treaty; customs duty; assistance to vessels in distress; prohibition export of specie exceptions; notice of prohibition of export of produce; mercantile tribunals; protection of British subjects; introduction of industrial machinery and agricultural implements. Three appendices follow: A. Report on the salt caves and mines and the trade in salt in the Persian Gulf, written by the Assistant Surgeon, Abder Raheem, Bassidore, 20 March 1880; B. Tabulated list of productions [summer and winter agricultural planting) of Fars; C. Tabulated trade statistics, indicating the quantity and values of imports and exports in the region, lists of goods traded, and nationality and tonnage of trading vessels.4. Administration report of the Political Agency, Muskat, for the year 1879-80, prepared by Major Charles Grant, His Britannic Majesty’s Political Agent and Consul, Muscat (folios 357-65), comprising: an overview of the political situation in Muscat, changes in British personnel at the Agency; the slave trade; marine events; and trade. An appendix of tabulated trade statistics follows the report, detailing nationality and tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat, and lists of imports and exports.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio, on number 285 and ends on the last folio, on number 364.Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
64. ‘Report on the Administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the Year 1880-81’
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- Abstract: Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Residency and Muscat Political Agency for 1880-81, published by Authority at the Foreign Department Press, India (Calcutta), forming part of the Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department (No. 181) and based on reports sent to Government by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The report is preceded by a copy of a letter sent by Ross to Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, dated 14 July 1881, which enclosed the submission of the original reports to the Government of India (folio 69).The report is divided up into a number of parts, as follows:1. General Report, prepared by Ross (folios 70-82), which is divided a number of small reports, organised by region and subject, as follows: 1. ’Omán [Oman] or Muskat State; 2. Pirate Coast; 3. Islands of Bahrain; 4. Nejd, El-Hasá [Al-Hasa] and El-Katr [Qatar]; 5. Southern Persia, with subheadings for Arabistan, Fars, Bushire, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] and Persian Beloochistan [Baluchistan]; and 6. Bassidore; naval; slave traffic; the observatory at Bushire; and the purchase of mules in Persia. Under the observatory report (folio 74) there is a handwritten pencil note (author unknown) which questions the underlined term ‘Samoom’ in the text, described as ‘a scorching northerly wind’. Three appendices follow the report: Appendix A comprises tabulated meteorological data from the Bushire observatory; Appendix B contains extracts from a report written by Captain Edward Durand, former Assistant Resident, on the men and internal politics of Fars; Appendix C is a genealogical table showing part of the Kájár [Qājār] royal family of Persia, indicating their present official appointments.2. Administration Report of the Political Agency, Muscat, for the year 1879-80, prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles, Her Britannic Majesty’s Political Agent and Consul in Muscat (folios 83-98), chiefly reporting on internal political affairs, with additional short reports on changes in British offical personnel and the slave trade. Two appendices follow the report: A. A note on the tribes of Oman, written by Miles, with tabulated data on the population, district and political affiliation of tribes, and separate sections dedicated to each main tribe, detailing their geographic location, character, and internal organisation. Appendix A also includes two genealogical tables, entitled ‘Seif bin Mohammed bin Saeed bin Mohammed bin Abdulla Âb Boo Saidi’ (folio 92) and ‘Khalfân bin Mohammad bin Abdulla el Wakeel Âb Boo Saidi’ (folio 93). Folio 94 is a note, inserted into the volume at a later, unspecified date, stating that a map, plan or sketch has been temporarily removed from the volume. Appendix B is a note, prepared by Ross, on the Ibadhiyah sect of Oman, with the translation of chapter 29 of “Keshf-ul-Ghummeh-El-Jama’l ’Akhbár-el-Ummeh” of the Shaikh Sirhán-bin-Sa’íd-el-’Alwai of Oman.3. Report of trade in 1880, prepared by Ross (folios 98-175), comprising a summary of trade and the harvest in southern Persia, and imports and exports. Two appendices follow the report: Appendix A is a note on sea-fishing in the Persian Gulf, written by Lieutenant I. MacIvor, Assistant Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, giving details of the main fishing areas; times of year for sea-fishing; boats used in fishing; fishing methods; curing and preparation of fish; importance of turtles; and varieties of fish found in the Persian Gulf and at Muscat, with a tabulated list of fish, alongside their (transliterated) Arabic and Persian names; numbers of boats and men involved in fishing; and quantities of fish caught in the Gulf and at Muscat. Appendix B comprises tabulated trade statistics, indicating the quantity and values of imports and exports in the region, lists of goods traded, nationality and tonnage of trading vessels.4. Trade at Muscat, prepared by Miles, dated 27 May 1881 (folios 176-85), incorporating a general overview of trade, followed by a number of appendices comprising tabulated statistics for the average tonnage of vessels entering and leaving Muscat, imports and exports, value and description of goods.Physical description: Condition: There is a small tear in folio 90. A number of pages (between folios 91 and 92) have been cut out of the volume.
65. ‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1881-82.’
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- Abstract: Administration report for the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1881-82, by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The report was published by Authority, by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing in India, Calcutta [Kolkata] in 1882. A copy of a letter from Ross to the Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department), dated 6 July 1882, is included in the report (folio 252), the original of which submitted the report to Government, under the following headings:Part 1 (General Report), written by Ross (folios 253-57), containing summaries of local political affairs, and incidents or events of particular note for: Oman; the Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Nejd, El-Hasa [Al-Hasa] and El-Katr [Qatar]; and Southern Persia and Biluchistan [Baluchistan]; plus reports on British naval movements in the Gulf for the year; slave traffic; and the Bushire observatory. Appendix A contains tabulated and graphical meteorological data for the year, supplied by the Bushire observatory.Part 2 (Administration Report of the Muscat Political Agency for the year 1881-82), submitted by Major Charles Grant, Her Britannic Majesty’s Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, dated 10 May 1882 (folios 258-61), containing a summary of affairs at Muscat, as well as changes to British official personnel, and a brief report on the slave trade. Appendix A contains tabulated meteorological data for the year, recorded at the Civil Hospital in Muscat.Part 3 (Report on Trade for the Persian Gulf for 1881), submitted by Ross (folios 262-319), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade, and followed by an appendix containing tabulated data on trade, including data on imports and exports into and out of the Gulf ports of Bushire, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Bahrain and the Arab (Oman) coast. The appendix also includes data on British and foreign shipping at Bushire, and a statement showing silk, cotton and woollen manufactures in Persia. An index to the trade tables can be found at folios 262-63.Part 4 (Trade at Muscat), submitted by Grant, dated 10 May 1882 (folios 320-28), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade at Muscat, and an appendix containing tabulated data on imports and exports at Muscat (listed by commodity), and the nationality and average tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on folio 251 and ends on folio 329.Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
66. ‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1882-83.’
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- Abstract: Administration report for the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1882-83, by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The report was published by Authority, by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing in India, Calcutta [Kolkata] in 1883. A copy of a letter from Ross to the Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department), dated 17 July 1883, is included in the report (folio 409), the original of which submitted the report to Government, under the following headings:Part 1 (General Report), written by Ross (folios 410-17), containing summaries of local political affairs, and incidents or events of particular note for: Oman; the Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Nejd, El-Hasa [Al-Hasa] and El-Katr [Qatar]; Fárs; Persian Arabistan; Persian Beloochistan [Baluchistan]; and Bassidore. The general report also contains summaries on British naval movements in the Gulf for the year; changes in official personnel; and the Bushire observatory. Appendix A contains tabulated and graphical meteorological data for the year, supplied by the Bushire observatory. Appendix B is a genealogical table for the Shaikhs of Bahrain, from 1783 to the present day. Appendix C is a complete list of the Persian telegraph lines and stations, recorded in June 1883, with the length of each line given in kilometres.Part 2 (Administration Report of the Muscat Political Agency for the year 1882-83), submitted by Major Edward Mockler, Her Britannic Majesty’s Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, dated 10 May 1882 (folios 417-23), containing a summary of affairs at Muscat, as well as changes to British official personnel, and a brief report on the slave trade. An appendix contains an outline of the history of Oman from 1728 to 1883, written by Ross and dated January 1883.Part 3 (Report on Trade for the Persian Gulf for 1882), submitted by Ross (folios 423-78), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade, and followed by an appendix containing tabulated data on trade, including data on imports and exports into and out of the Gulf ports of Bushire, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], Bahrain and the Arab (Oman) coast. The appendix also includes data on opium shipments for the year from Bushire and Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], and British and foreign shipping at Bushire. An index to the trade tables can be found at folios 424-25.Part 4 (Trade at Muscat), submitted by Mockler, dated 6 June 1883 (folios 320-28), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade at Muscat, and an appendix containing tabulated data on imports and exports at Muscat (listed by commodity), value and description of goods, and the nationality and average tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on folio 408 and ends on folio 487.Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
67. ‘Report on the administration of the Persian Gulf Political Agency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1883-84.’
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- Abstract: Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Residency and Muscat Political Agency for the year 1883-84, by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, published by Authority by the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta [Kolkata]. A copy of a letter from Ross to Charles Grant, Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department), dated 17 July 1884, is included in the report (folio 33), the original of which submitted the report to Government, under the following headings:Part 1 ( General Report), written by Ross (folios 34-39), containing summaries of local political affairs, and incidents or events of particular note for: Oman and the Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Nejd, El-Hasa [Al-Hasa] and El-Katr [Qatar]; Fars, including Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] and Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], and the coast between Bushire and Bandar-e Lengeh; Persian Arabistan; Persian Beloochistan [Baluchistan] and Gwadur; and Bassidore. The report also contains summaries of changes in official personnel (referred to as political establishment); British naval movements in the Gulf; and a summary of meteorological events observed at the Bushire observatory. Appendix A contains tabulated and graphical meteorological data for the year, supplied by the Bushire observatory.Part 2 ( Administration Report of the Muscat Political Agency for the year 1883-84), submitted by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles, Her Britannic Majesty’s Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, dated 9 June 1884 (folios 40-50), containing a summary of affairs at Muscat, including raids and fighting around Muscat in October 1884, between rebel forces and those allied to the Sultan of Muscat. The report also records changes to British official personnel at Muscat, and notes recent shipwrecks on the Muscat coast. Appendix A is a biographical sketch, written by Miles, of Sayyid Sa'eed-bin-Sultan, the Imam of Muscat.Part 3 ( Report on Trade for the Persian Gulf for 1883, folios 50-105), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade, and followed by two appendices, labelled A and B, but arranged in reverse order: B) Supplementary notes on the care and culture of date trees and fruit, written by A. R. Hakim, Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; A) tabulated data on trade, including data on imports and exports into and out of the Gulf ports of Bushire, Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Bahrain and the Arab (Oman) coast. An index to the trade tables can be found at folios 53-54.Part 4 ([at Muscat]), submitted by Miles, dated 9 June 1884 (folios 105-12), comprising a short summary of the year’s trade at Muscat, and an appendix containing tabulated data on imports and exports at Muscat (listed by commodity), and the nationality and average tonnage of vessels visiting Muscat.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio, on number 32, and ends on the last folio, on number 112.Pagination: The volume contains an original typed pagination sequence.
68. 'Report on the Administration of the Bushire Residency including that of the Muscat Political Agency, with Reports on Trade for 1873-74.'
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- Abstract: Report on the Administration of the Bushire Residency including that of the Muscat Political Agency, with Reports on Trade for 1873-74, printed at the Foreign Department Press, Calcutta, 1874.The report is split into two sections and further into subsections. The first section relates to the Residency at Bushire, the second to the Political Agency at Muscat.The first section on Bushire consists of three sub-sections:An administration report by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, that gives an update on political and administrative matters for various places and sheikhdoms in the region, as well as notes on weather, medical matters, and the slave trade (folios 2-6);A trade report, also written by Ross, that includes notes on the various ports, the main commodities, transport, and customs (folios 6-9);Twenty-four tables of trade statistics (A-X) (folios 9-38).The second section on Muscat consists of two sub-sections:An administration report written by the Political Agent, Major Samuel Barrett Miles, which gives a political and administrative update on the country, including notes on slave traffic and trade (folios 38-40);Six tables of trade statistics (A-F) (folios 41-46).Physical description: The report is arranged in two sections: the first relating to the Bushire Residency, the second the Political Agency at Muscat.
69. ‘REPORT ON THE MISSION TO SEISTAN, 1897’
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- Abstract: The volume consists of a report by Surgeon-Major George Washington Brazier-Creagh on his mission to Seistan [Sīstān] on ‘plague duty’ to investigate the closure of the Perso-Afghan-Baluch trade routes under the ‘mantle of plague’ from April to October 1897. The report is divided into five sections:The Outward Journey: A general account of the journey across the Baluchistan Desert – folios 5-7.A general history of the Mission and condition of affairs in Seistan – folios 8-13r.An account of influential chiefs and material connected with the administration of Seistan – folios 13v-15r.The Return Journey: A review of road infrastructure and trade prospects – folios 16-17.A review of the strategic and political outlook – folios 17-18.The remainder of the volume (folios 20-58) consists of appendices. A pocket on the inside back cover contains five folded maps (folios 60-64).On the front cover, it bears two stamps reading ‘War Office. Library. 14 Dec 1889’ and ‘Intelligence Division. 14 Dec 1889’ respectively.Published in Calcutta by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India (1898).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 65; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
70. 'Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen.'
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- Abstract: Report by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, FRGS, FSA, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. Submitted to the Government of India, and the Committees of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, Cawnpore [Kānpur], and the Indian Tea Cess, Calcutta [Kolkata].Publication statement: Calcutta: Government of India, Foreign Department, 1906.The report is divided into the following sections:I. Introduction.II. A General Report.III. Notes on Trading Centres, trade usages and other matters of interest.IV. Imports and Exports, comprising: a) Articles of Commerce. b) Resumé.V. Appendices: A. Tables of Weights, Measures and Currency; B. Statistical Tables; C. Trade routes, description and map [missing]; D. Tables showing cost and time of transport and keep of animals; E. Blank business contact form; F. Itinerary of journey of Mission.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 86; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
71. ‘Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., President, representing the Upper India Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Tea Cess Committee.’
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- Abstract: Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia written by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. The purpose of the commercial mission was to report on the present position and future prospects of the trade of South-Eastern Persia with a view to increasing Indo-Persian Trade.The report comprises five parts:Part I – Introduction: inception of mission; route, including journey from Bombay [Mumbai] to Bander Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās].Part II – General: physical features of country; people; trade statistics and methods; banking industry; agricultural banks; Russian competition; consular matters; engineering (irrigation, railway and harbour construction, mining); customs and imports.Part III – Trading centres: Bander Abbas; Saiadabad [Sa‘īdābād, or Sirjan]; Bahramabad [Bahrāmābād, or Rafsanjān]; Kerman; Khabis [Shahdād]; Gok [Bāgh Gūk]; Bam; Jiruft [Jīroft] and Rudbar; Yezd; Shiraz; Bushire.Part IV – Imports and Exports, including chief articles of commerce (statistics, Russian trade, customs tariff) and development of trade.Part V includes a number of appendices comprising statistical tables of imports and exports, telegraph rates, descriptions of trade routes, costs and times of transport routes, the itinerary of the mission and a map of the caravan routes of South East Persia.The report was published in Calcutta by the Government of India Foreign Dept, 1906.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at a map in the inside back cover with 87; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
72. ‘Report on the British Trade with Persia and Arabia.’
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- Abstract: Extract of Bombay Commercial Consultations prepared by Charles Walking, the Secretary to the Court of Directors, in which he includes an enclosure from the Resident and joint Factor at Bussora [Basra] and from the Resident at Bushire [Bushehr], Samuel Manesty and Harford Jones respectively. The enclosure covers: the Residents’ correspondence with Persian officials; the Persian Government’s views on the establishment of British factories in the Kingdom of Persia [Iran]; the privileges and the commercial advantages that would be granted by the Shah of Persia to the East India Company (EIC); and a list of the different kinds of goods usually brought to Bushire from India.The enclosure also includes a ‘Report of the Commerce of Arabia and Persia’ (ff 208-286) based on information already available from previous reports of the Bushire Factory. The report is prepared and signed by the Residents of Bussora and Bushire. It is divided into three parts: ‘Commerce of Arabia bordering on the Persian Gulph [Gulf]’, ‘Commerce of the Red Sea’, and ‘Commerce of Persia’.‘Commerce of Arabia bordering on the Persian Gulph’ covers the following matters:Trade status in Muscat, Bahreen [Bahrain], Catiffe [Qatif], Jebarra [Zubarah], Bussora, and Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled as Bagdat]Privileges granted by the Ottoman Empire to the British and other European nations at BussoraAccount of the main powerful Arab tribes in the region including: Benechalid [Banū Khālid], Beneattaba [Banū ‘Utbah], Whahab [the Wahhābīs], and the Montificka Arabs [al-Muntafiq Arab tribal confederation]The trade activities of merchants from Constantinople [Istanbul], Aleppo, Damascus, Mardin, Orfa [Urfa], and Diarbeker [Diyarbakir]Commodities traded including: sugar, dried fruit, rose water, coffee, spices, rice, pearls, woollen goods, metals, and opiumThe activities of vessels belonging to Arabs and Moslem [Muslim] merchants of Surat and MuscatThe European vessels in the Persian Gulph.It appears that part of the report is missing (between folios 242v and 243r). This may have been the second part, ‘Commerce of the Red Sea’.‘Commerce of Persia’ covering:The EIC’s trade activities in Persia and the attitude of the Persian Kings towards itRemarks on the Factory at Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]The Dutch Factory activities on the Island of Carrack [Jazireh-ye Khark]Events taking place in Persia [Iran] and their impact on the commerce as early as 1773The status of trade on the Island of Ormus [Jazireh-ye Hormoz]The trade with Kandahar [also spelled as Candahoor]The languishing state of the EIC’s commerce at the port of BushireThe importation to England of raw silk from PersiaThe type of woollen goods and other British products suitable for the Persian marketDescription of the arrival of a Persian pilgrim caravan in BagdadComparison between the carpets manufactured in Persia and those manufactured in England, the Wilton and Axminster carpets in particularAnnual accounts of exports and imports between the Persian Gulph, the Red Sea, and IndiaThe recommendation to establish factories at the ports of Mocha and Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (90 folios)