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Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’ [93r] (185/313)
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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easily be refuted, anc the O^rreyiBaant of Inriia, admitting
the ^uetiee of the Iranian contention, interv ed to
separate the two ftmotions and appoint a separate Viee
Couptul at zabul. fhere were, however, naturr lly financial
difficulties involved in the creation of a now post, and
I said we should be fateful if his Government would agree
to the present system continuing for a short time while
these were being examined* He lid not demur, and asked
for how long, in answer to which it was suggested two
months might suffice* He took a note of this*
He then raised the question of the Jdahiaan
railway* I attempted to make it quite clear that we could
not in any case consider this on merits until The
atmosphere had been cleared by the Iranian Government
giving an earnest that Indian sublets in Eastern Iran
would receive better treatment than they had hitherto.
After that I said we were not ooponed to extension on
principle, but in the present state of Inbo-Irsnian trade,
the railway would inevitably v/ork at a considerable loss,
so thst we would have to be assured that a definite
financial or commercial advantage elsewhere could be
obtained either by improving the prospects of Indian
exports to Iran, or by other means. I also made it clear
that technical difficulties as regards such natters as the
erection of two stations at Mirjawa remaine for
consideration* For our station we should no doubt re uire
a lease of land from the Iranian Government* I
reitoreted that the ouestion could not in any case be
consider-*d on its merits un^il the position as regards the
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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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