!['SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎60v] (125/386)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001491.0x000064/Mss Eur F111_532_0125.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎60v] (125/386)")
'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [60v] (125/386)
The record is made up of 1 volume (189 folios). It was created in 1907. 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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urged the Secretary of State to permit the Government of India an opportunity
of "taking into their consideration any conclusions which might have been
formed either by the Defence Committee or by His Majesty’s Government.
It was pointed out that the question of Persian defence and indeed of British
policy in Persia was one of overwhelming moment to the Government of India
who were charged with one-half of the annual cost of the official maintenance of
British interests in the Shah’s dominions; that as the defence of Persia was an
Indian equally with a British interest, and if active measures were required in
that country, Indian assistance would almost certainly be invoked, His Lordship
considered it a most legitimate and desirable measure of co-ordination that the
Government of India should usually be made acquainted with such discussions
or proposals as might from time to time take place on this important question.
“ The question,’’ he wrote, “ of British policy in Persia, even if at times it
may slumber, is one of such vital moment to ourselves, and is so certain in the
future to assume a much more prominent place on the field of Asiatic politics
than it has yet done, that we feel that it should never for long be absent from
our consideration, but that each successive phase or development of it should
be made the subject of our anxious scrutiny. Though the checks which have
recently been experienced by Russia in her policy of Asiatic expansion may
be thought to have lessened the chances of an active programme of political or
territorial advance in Persia, we can feel by no means certain that they may
not have the opposite effect ; while in the growing weakness and incapacity of
the Central Persian authority it is difficult not to observe the evidences of a dis
integration that may at any time culminate in serious anarchy or disaster.”
No reply was received to this despatch before Lord Curzon left India.
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Printed at the GC [Government Central] Press, Simla.
The volume is divided into three parts: Part I (folios 5-47) containing an introduction; Part II (folios 48-125) containing a detailed account; and Part III (folios 126-188) containing despatches and correspondence connected with Part I Chapter IV ('The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', folios 28-47).
Part I gives an overview of policy and events in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region during Curzon's period as Viceroy [1899-1905], with sections on British policy in Persia; the maintenance and extension of British interests; Seistan [Sīstān]; and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Part II contains more detailed accounts of selected topics, including sections on British policy in Persia, customs and finance, quarantine, administration, communications, and British and Russian activity in Seistan. The despatches and correspondence in Part III include correspondence from the Government of India in the Foreign Department, the Secretary of State for India, and the Viceroy; addresses and speeches by Curzon; and notes of interviews between Curzon and local rulers.
Mss Eur F111/531-534 consist of four identical printed and bound volumes. However, the four volumes each show a small number of different manuscript annotations and corrections.
This volume contains manuscript additions on folios 11, 40-41, 47, and 142-146.
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- 1 volume (189 folios)
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The volume contains a list of Parts I-III on folio 4; a table of contents of Part I on folio 6; a table of contents of Part II on folio 49; and a table of contents of Part III on folios 127-129, which gives a reference to the paragraph of Part I Chapter IV that the despatch or correspondence is intended to illustrate.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 191; 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.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:190v, back-i
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- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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