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Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’ [51r] (101/313)
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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Iranians withdrawing all long term visas from Indian
drivers in Zahidan, and the result will he that Indian
drivers will work between Nok Kundi and Mirjawa, while
the stretch from Mirjawa to Zahidan will he in the hands
of Iranian drivers, hut, as pointed out by Baluchistan
and Colonel Daly, the exclusive right to Indian drivers
to carry on their section of road will at least give
them a certain assurance, and may well incline the Iranian
Government to he reasonable. It will at least defeat the
present attempt to 'drive Indians even off roads in India.
7. We may inform Monsieur Kazemi that this is the
action we are forced to take and at the same time add that
we are at any time ready to negotiate a fair agreement.
The terms of such agreement might he somewhat as follows
(1) Indian and Iranian drivers will have full and equal
rights to work over the whole route between Nok Kundi and
Zahidan.
(2) The rates of transport should he fixed by agreement
by consultation between His Majesty’s Consul-General and the
Governor-General to be accepted by the Government of India
and the Iranian Government. The owners and drivers should
be consulted on the rates which should be fixed at a
scale which will allow of economic working.
(3) Long term visas, which might be for 6 months
rather than for the old period of three months, should be
granted on a reciprocal basis. If so desired, the local
authorities on each side may fix in consultation the number
of visas to be issued by each authority.
(4) No other entry visas should be required either
into India or Iran.
(5)/
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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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