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IOR/L/PS/12/3415
- Record Id:
- 040-000558472
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000558446
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0003c8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040500729.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/3415
- Title:
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Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’
- Scope & Content:
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Annual commercial reports for the provinces of Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (from 1936, referred to as the provinces of Khorāsān and Mekran [Makran]), submitted by the British Consul for Sistan and Kain (from 1936, the British Consul-General for Khorāsān, Meshed [Mashhad]) (Clarmont Percival Skrine; Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly; Major Everard Huddleston Gastrell; Captain Giles Frederick Squire). The reports include sections on:
- trade (including imports, exports, foreign goods, openings for British goods)
- finance (including banking activity, bankruptcies).
- taxation
- Persian military (including the commandeering of transport, effects of conscription)
- agriculture (including irrigation, opium production)
- industry (including new industries, electricity generation, demand for foreign machinery)
- communications and transport (roads, railways)
- social conditions (standard of living, unemployment, public health and hygiene)
- appendices with statistical tables on imports and exports on the Nushki to Duzdap [Zahedan] railway, imports and exports via Zahedan, freight rates, and rates for animal transport
Preceding each report is an India Office minute paper, containing handwritten notes commenting on the contents of the report. The file also includes a small amount of official correspondence relating to the contents of the reports, and a number of other reports prepared by the British-Consul General, relating to the commercial situation in eastern Iran, and Iranian trade with Russia.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000558446
040-000558472 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/3390-3550 : Political (External) Collection 28: Persia (Iran)
IOR/L/PS/12/3415 : Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0029]/037-000558446[0026]/040-000558472
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (156 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0003c8
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1928
- End Date:
- 1942
- Date Range:
- 10 Dec 1928-5 Jun 1942
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 157; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
An additonal foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-156; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.
- Former External References:
- Coll 28/19
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)