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File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’ [261r] (269/300)
The record is made up of 1 item (149 folios). It was created in 2 Jul 1914-18 Jun 1915. 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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oth # forte " and dft-avanserais are but euch In naiiie,
having no being whatever. Schedule 2 shows the "forte*
t.nd the degree of their futility in detail - suffice
it to &(%y here t at one is a heap of ruins # another
is merely an unfinished breaatwotk. with neither door o
nor roof, one is so hopelessly ooLmanded at a range of
six hundred yards from the surrounding hille as to fe abec*
utely u; ^tenable, and the i^ajority are so far removed
from water as to render the garrison liable to be re
duced to straits for water in a very few hours, there
not even being any provision for storing either food or
water, fhe Caravanserais are little better, sottedule 2
ahovs their state in detail, their owners, and their
leasing value per annum. Lalaair caravans rat is good
-nd in good repair, all the rest are in ail stages of
d srepa.r, detay, and ooneequent inadequacy.
g> Supplies and fodder.
Famine prices rule throughout the hill section,
w th consequential inflation of hire rates, and subse
quent hampering of trade. Sohedule 3 gives, in the form
d
of a Comparative table, the risfeag- in pride from jkrab-
istan to the hill &e tlon and thence the decrease to the
r oahar kahal end of the road - the unit remaining con
stant throughout.
©lere are various causes giving rise to these
high prices, first of all the system itself. Each serai
belongs to a separate Fhan or pair of Khans and is let
out by them for a large sum of money annua 1 ly to a
"dalumdar* . At the end of the season, on one pretext# or
another, the owner fines the lessee a large sum, and
poccets the cash. It will be therefore seen tliat in order
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This part contains papers, mostly correspondence and 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. minute papers, relating to British interests and Russian policy in the South of Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to the following:
- the condition of the Lynch road from Ahwaz to Isfahan (the Bakhtiari Road)
- the question of how far diplomatic action by HM Government in order to rehabilitate British interests in South Persia is desirable or practicable in existing circumstances
- the Foreign Office recommendation that revised assurances should be given to the Sheikh of Mohammerah, in order to strengthen the British position in Arabistan
- the Foreign Office view that the moment is not opportune for taking up the various questions of policy in South Persia
- the collection of taxes by Russian consuls in Persia
- the state of affairs in the districts of Urmia and Soujboulak
- the appointment of a Governor-General at Ispahan
- grievances of the Persian Government against the Russian Government
- Russian ‘intrigues’ with the Bakhtiari khans
- the proposed substitution of a Bakhtiari for Nizam-es-Sultaneh as Governor-General of Luristan
The correspondence is largely between the following:
- the Foreign Office (including Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley, HM Minister to Persia
- the Foreign Office and the Persian Transport Company
- the Foreign Office and Sir George William Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia at St Petersburg
- HM Minister to Persia (Townley and Charles Murray Marling), and Captain J Ranking, HM Vice-Consulate, Ahwaz
- the 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. and the Foreign Office
- Major Stuart George Knox, Officiating 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India
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- File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’
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- 127r:144v, 147r:195r, 199r:200v, 201v:224v, 226v:232v, 234r:276v
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