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File 5924/1920 Pt 3 ‘Persia: Debt to H.M.G. Private claims against Persian Govt.’ [462v] (72/216)
The record is made up of 1 item (108 folios). It was created in 2 Nov 1926-25 Nov 1932. 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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the Kerman Branch of the Imperial
Bank of Persia for the expenses of
escorting the British colony from
Kerman to Bandar Abbas in 1916-17.
It will be observed, apart from
this, that the Government of India,
in their statement of claims, have
included the moieties of the
advances to certain claimants which
were made by His Majesty's
Government as well as those made
by the Government of India.
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This part contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the private and commercial financial claims made by British subjects and companies against the Government of Persia [Iran], as well as Persia’s financial affairs generally.
The papers notably cover:
- Claims of British subjects against the Persian Government, and the forming of an Anglo-Persian commission of enquiry to assess these claims
- British Government proposals for a final inclusive settlement to be paid by the Persian Government, in return for the liquidation of all outstanding British claims
- Persian railways
- British financial interests in Persia.
Also included in the volume are reports and detailed summaries of British Indian and British claims against Persia (ff 465-466 and ff 485-489 respectively).
The principal correspondents are as follows: British Legation, Tehran (correspondence sometimes comes from Gulhek [Qolhak, also written as Gula Hek], which was the Legation’s summer hill station); Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Imperial Bank of Persia, Treasury; Foreign Office.
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- Title
- File 5924/1920 Pt 3 ‘Persia: Debt to H.M.G. Private claims against Persian Govt.’
- Pages
- 427r:534v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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