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'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence' [40r] (84/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (306 folios ). It was created in 1903. 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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CHAPTER VI
RUSSIAN ASCENDENCY IN TEHERAN: THE
POWER OF THE PURSE
BESIDES the power of the sword Russia wields at
the present moment in Teheran with at least equal
might the power of the purse. The methods by which
she has acquired it are similar to those which she has
employed with so much success in China, and they
aptly illustrate the intimate connection which exists
between the Far Eastern and the Middle Eastern ques
tions. The activity of Russian diplomacy in Teheran
during the last few years has constantly kept time with,
and in many instances assumed exactly the same shape
as, the activity which it has displayed during the same
period in Peking. In both cases its guiding principles
are the same, namely, that by bolstering up a weak
and corrupt Oriental monarchy, and securing its com
plete subserviency by a judicious combination of force
ful pressure and pecuniary suasion, the ends of Russian
policy can be, perhaps more slowly, but more surely
attained, and at infinitely less cost and risk than by
open and violent aggression. Nothing can be more
instructive than the way in which history has been
repeating, or rather duplicating, itself in Peking and in
Teheran.
In Peking the first manifestation of the ascendency
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The volume, written by Valentine Chirol and printed in London by John Murray in 1903, is based on a series of letters written by Chirol during a journey through Persia and the Persian Guf, that appeared in The Times in 1902 and 1903.
The main topics are: the concept of 'Middle East'; the Baghdad Railway; the British role in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Russian influence over Persia; the border of Afghanistan; the North-East Frontier of India, and Tibet. An appendix at the back of the volume contains copies of international treaties, and documents in French on the Baghdad Railway.
The volume contains numerous illustrations and three maps:
- 'Sketch Map of the Borderlands of India';
- 'Sketch Map of Asia showing railway expansion';
- 'Sketch map of Persia and adjoining countries'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (306 folios )
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- IOR/L/PS/20/G43
- Title
- 'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence'
- Pages
- 2r:305v
- Author
- Chirol, Sir (Mary) Ignatius Valentine
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- Public Domain