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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [109r] (217/442)
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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15.
unjustified occupation of Cha^ai, and the important nature of the
is rues involved, the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
would venture, but with some little
diffidence, to express the view that our higher interests
would have been consulted had we insisted on the boundary line
bein^ drawn through the Baluch desert country slightly South,
and parallel to, the Helmand valley and the evacuation of the
Chagai Sarlat and the Chagai Diet: in its entirety.
The Baluohistan-Persian frontier takes off from the Gulf
littoral and, running North as far as Jalk, follows the Eastern
fringe of the Persian Baluchistan hill country. Here it turns
N.E. to the Talab river, the dry bed of which it follows up as
far as Mirjawa and leaving this valley, and its cultivation, on
the Persian side, strikes off again N.E. to join the
Kaoha-Saindak-Amalaf range which it follows up to Koh-I-Malik Siah.
In its Southern sector, this boundary fulfills the general
requirements of an international boundary line, but this is not
so in the case of the Northern. Had the British Coirinissioner
visited and mapped this section, the boundary which would have
commended itself to him would, probably, have differed materially
from that he decided on. The best alignment would have been that
supplied by the rocky mountain wall which extends as far as
Koh-I-Malik Siah. There would seem to have been no difficulty in
arranging this: indeed the Persian Commissioner opposed the
inclusion of Duzdab within Persian territorial limits, and took
it in bad part when this reasonable request was refused. A boundary
drawn West of Duzdab would have left Mir jawa with its cultivation,
good water, and, more important still, its easy straight run in,
to the Seistan border, on our side of the Frontier. The boundary
between Jalk and the Koh-I-Kalik Siah is not shev/n on our maps, as
the British and Persian Commissioners did not proceed further
North than Jalk and a difficulty, which cannot easily be overcome,
has been experienced in reconciling the boundary given on the agreement
with that on the Boundary Commission map, and either of these with
that marked on the ground by the Indian subordinate to whom this
duty was entrusted.
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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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- Open Government Licence