IOR/L/PS/12/3468

Printed copies of annual trade and commerce reports for the Persian port of Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], compiled by HM’s Consul at Bunder Abbas (George Alexander Richardson, Cecil Henning Lincoln). The file includes reports for the years 1925-26, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1930-32, 1932-33, 1934-35, and 1935-36.

The reports vary in extent from one year to the next, but broadly include sections on the following subjects: a general review of the year’s trade at Bunder Abbas; currency, weights and measures; trade at the Persian port of Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh]; taxation; military operations and conscription; agriculture (including opium production); industry; roads; public health and hygiene; shipping and navigation; statistical tables of shipping activity, commodities, imports and exports.

The original copies of the reports were forwarded by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, with a request that printed copies be sent back to the Political Residency. Included amongst the reports are India Office Political Department minute papers and other notes, with comments written by India Office officials on the contents of the reports.

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.