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Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’ [105r] (209/313)
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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to
to which it was suggested 2 months might
suffice. He took a note of this.
8 . He then raised the question of the
Zahidan 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 subjects in t Eastern Iran
would receive better treatment than they had
hitherto. After that I said we were not
opposed to extension on principle, but in the
present state of Indo-Iranian trade, the railway
would inevitably work at a considerable loss,
| so that we v/ould 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 matters
as the erection of two stations at Kirjawa
remained for consideration. For our station
we should no doubt require a lease of land
from the Iranian Government. I reiterated that
the question could not in any case be consiaered
on its merits until the position as regards
the treatment of Indians had cleared.
9. We then discussed the tea control
over the land frontier, and I explained the
system which had been adopted. M. Motamedy
seemed to think that what we had done was to
impose an export tax on tea. I explained to
him, after consulting Mr. Stewart on the telephone,
that this was not the case at all. We now
required licenses for all exports of tea over the
land frontier or by sea, the fee for license
being only As. -/V- per 100 lbs. and being
intended to cover the cost of administration of
the Tea Restriction Scheme. I also explained
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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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