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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [107r] (213/442)
The record is made up of 1 file (221 folios). It was created in Nov 1911-Mar 1917. 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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to Koh-M'alik Sieh. It was, and still renain.% the onli? route
by which an approach to Seistan arkl India, frori either the Gulf
or Kiman sides, is possible. It was by this route that the arms
and aimonition that have reached Afghanistan, of late years,
in such larrte quantities, and have armed the tribesmen of that
country and the N.w. Frontier, in such nurtbers, were Imported,
a traffic which, it may incidentally be observed, has caused
^rave anxiety as well as heavy expense to the Government of India;
has led to the loosing of the bonds of the Andr’s authority which
it is both our policy and friendly desire to see strengthened
and maintained; has contributed, more than anything else, to the
revolt of Persian Baluchistan, from the Kirtnan provincial
Government; and is the \mderlying cause of the unrest which has
existed, for so many years, not only among the Baluoh tribes of
our and the Persian border but also among the Pathan tribes of
the N*W.F. Provinces,
Climate.
Ont^ds subdeot there is little to say. Despite the heat,
in surner, the climate is extremely healthy. The nights ere
always oool and such sickness as prevails is almost wholly due
to scorbutic causes arising from the want of vegetables,
accentuated by saline water.
G. Boundaries .
K©b-I-4!allk Siah is the converging point of three separate
boundaries, v.1.8. the Xndo—Persian, the Indo—Afghanistan, and
the Per so-Af ghenistan. The Indo-Persian boundary strikes West
from the Quetta hill system and, after taking In that small, but
important strip of the Kegistan which the r>andahar authorities
have always shewn themselves so eager to possess, as it is used
by the local pastor lists as a simple, but very effective means,
of regulating the extortions of Afghan tax collectors, makes
for the Chagai Sarlat hills. Leaving a section of these hills
on the Afghan side of the frontier, it strikes ^est to
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railway, the Baghdad Railway, and the Nushki and Dalbandin extension from Quetta. The documents discuss the merits and flaws of the proposals, technical issues such as gauge sizes, and the impact of such projects on Britain's relations with Russia, Germany, France, and Turkey.
At the back of the file are a number of official reports on Parliamentary debates within the House of Commons, dating from 10 July 1912 to 25 May 1914, all of which feature railways (folios 128-218). Also at the rear of the file are three maps:
- General Map of Asia with proposed British, German, and Russian rail lines added by hand
- War Office map of the Middle East, showing railways and railway projects
- As above with further rail lines added and details of gauges given.
Correspondents include: Arthur Campbell Yate, army Officer; Henry McNiel; Francis Richard Maunsell, army officer; George Lloyd, politician; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington, army officer and war correspondent; Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Leader of the House of Lords; Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord Lansdowne), statesman; Lucien Wolf, journalist and historian; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Charles Prestwich Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director, Imperial Bank of Persia; and Colonel Frank Cooke Webb Ware, former Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai.
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- 1 file (221 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 221; 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.
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- Mss Eur F112/252
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- Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia
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- 87r:90v, 95r:221v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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