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File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’ [262r] (271/300)
The record is made up of 1 item (149 folios). It was created in 2 Jul 1914-18 Jun 1915. 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 cover these heavy drains on hie resources and also to
make his Quota t the lessee must charge exorbitant rates
Tor supplies. This is the primary cause. Another is that
the IX,when migrating,use this road and make free with
the young crops to the detriment of the ultimate outturn.
Another is the area under cultivation in the vicinity of
the road in the hill section aa* not sufficient both to
support the inhabitants and to provide x*or large numbers
of caravans ; consequently wheat and such food stuffs havd.
to be brought up from halsmir and down from the chaha/^
yahal. Another cause .incidental to this year ,1s the
Scarcity due to last year's shortage of rain ; but this
is only incid ntal and in no way accounts for the enor ~
Mas rise in prices .whih has been going on during the pasl*
three years. Even in the last few years the rise has been
hire
unprecedented — hrtWr rates which I can remaaber 70
krans.are today ttlo krans.
(4) Prof oUon.
most
Next comes the important question .that of
protection of the road. 1 am glad to say that up to the
present .this season, the safe ty of th~ road has left no ~
thing to be desired.
When on the road, Informat ion reached me of
the presence of a large band of Taibi marauders,
who were awaiting a favourable opportunity,in conjunct
ion with a fordable larun.to harry the road, fhe river
was at the time high and 1 reckoned on some 10 or 12 days
respite,and in response to urgent representations which I
made to him,the Serdar Jang xaade such arrangements as
have preserved the safety of the road up to date.
It may not be out of place briefly to
recapitulate the arrangements made for Tour Excellency's
information.
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This part contains papers, mostly correspondence and 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. minute papers, relating to British interests and Russian policy in the South of Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to the following:
- the condition of the Lynch road from Ahwaz to Isfahan (the Bakhtiari Road)
- the question of how far diplomatic action by HM Government in order to rehabilitate British interests in South Persia is desirable or practicable in existing circumstances
- the Foreign Office recommendation that revised assurances should be given to the Sheikh of Mohammerah, in order to strengthen the British position in Arabistan
- the Foreign Office view that the moment is not opportune for taking up the various questions of policy in South Persia
- the collection of taxes by Russian consuls in Persia
- the state of affairs in the districts of Urmia and Soujboulak
- the appointment of a Governor-General at Ispahan
- grievances of the Persian Government against the Russian Government
- Russian ‘intrigues’ with the Bakhtiari khans
- the proposed substitution of a Bakhtiari for Nizam-es-Sultaneh as Governor-General of Luristan
The correspondence is largely between the following:
- the Foreign Office (including Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley, HM Minister to Persia
- the Foreign Office and the Persian Transport Company
- the Foreign Office and Sir George William Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia at St Petersburg
- HM Minister to Persia (Townley and Charles Murray Marling), and Captain J Ranking, HM Vice-Consulate, Ahwaz
- the 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. and the Foreign Office
- Major Stuart George Knox, Officiating Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India
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- File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’
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- 127r:144v, 147r:195r, 199r:200v, 201v:224v, 226v:232v, 234r:276v
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