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Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’ [48r] (95/313)
The record is made up of 1 file (154 folios). It was created in 14 Aug 1935-16 Apr 1936. It was written in English and French. 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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Enclosure No. 8.
LORRY TRAFFIC ON NOK KUNDI - ZAHIDAN ROUTE.
In 1931 a reciprocal arrangement was made for
the grant of long term visas to Indian and Iranian drivers
and cleaners on this route. The visas were available for
three months for any number of journeys. British visas to
Iranian drivers were issued by the Vice-Consul, Zahidan,
while Iranian visas to Indian drivers were issued by the
Iranian authorities also at Zahidan.
2* As part of the Iranian policy for preventing
foreign artisans from working in Iran, the Iranian
authorities have recently obstructed the working of this
arrangement. This has been done by the following means.
Under the reciprocal arrangement the Indian driver has to
get to Zahidan to obtain his long term visa. As Zahidan
is in Iran, he is not permitted to cross the frontier until
he has obtained an Iranian entry visa in India. When there
was an Iranian Visa Officer at Quetta, this could be done
at Quetta, but now the nearest point is Karachi. Such
entry visas are not granted, so that no new Indian driver
can get to Zahidan to obtain a long term visa.
Simultaneously every obstacle is placed in the way of
those already working at Zahidan by cancelling their long
term visas if they go back to India beyond Nok Kundi. If
therefore they wish to remain working on the route, they
can never visit India.
3. At the same time the Iranian Government are
seeking to increase the difficulties of the Indian driver
even on the Indian section of the road by introducing
lorries/
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Correspondence, memoranda and newspaper cuttings relating to an official visit made by the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bagher Kazemi, to Kabul, Afghanistan, and New Delhi, India. The file’s principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Aside from general commercial matters, specific subjects discussed by Kazemi and Government of India officials, as recorded in memoranda and notes in the file, include: the Duzdap [Zahedan] railway; the status of 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. at Bushire, Iran, and questions over its transfer to Bahrain; the demarcation of the Iran-Baluchistan frontier; the employment of officers of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India at consular posts in Iran; lorry traffic on the Nok Kundi to Zahidan [Zahedan] road. The file also contains a sequence of newspaper articles dated 2-27 February 1936, appearing in the French-language newspaper Le Journal de Teheran , and reporting at length on Kazemi’s visit (ff 6-28).
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- 1 file (154 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 155; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 29r:53v, 57r:58v, 61r:118r, 118ar, 118v:119v, 121r:143r, 143ar, 143v:155v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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