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The record is made up of 1 file (388 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1899-4 Apr 1904. 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 money, the Bank appearing as the nominal lender. After communicating
with the Government of India, it was arranged as the basis for the loan, that
£300,000, which might later be increased to £500,000 in return for further
conditions, should be lent by that Government at 4 per cent, interest to the
Imperial Bank of Persia, the joint risk for payment of the principle and inter
est of the loan being accepted by the British and Indian Governments. Of
the above sum £300,000 was to be advanced atonce to the Persian Government
at 4 per cent., the Bank charging 1 per cent, commission for its services. The
security was to be the Caspian Pisheries and the revenue derived from the
Southern Customs. Effectual precautions were to be taken against (1) reim
bursement by Kussia whenever it suited her, (2) the possibility of a Russo-
Persian Bank undertaking at some future date a discount or other operation in
connection with the Customs of Southern Persia. A loan agreement to the
following effect was finally signed at Tehran on April 8th : —
(1) The Imperial Bank to lend the Persian Government £200,000 at
5%.
(2) The Persian Government to repay the said advance, capital and
interest, in 20 years out of the proceeds of the royalties on the
Caspian Fisheries.
(3) Should the Caspian Fisheries revenues be insufficient to secure the
regular repayment of the advance, the Persian Government to
pay the amounts requisite for that purpose out of the revenues
of the Posts and Telegraphs, and out of the revenues of the
Customs of Fars and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
should the former be
insufficient.
During the first months of 1903 several important changes occurred in the
Governors of the various Provinces. The chief of these were in Khorasan
and Kerman where the Rukn-ed-Dowleh and the Zafer-es-Sultaneh, respectively,
replaced the Nair-ed-Dowleh and the Ala-ul-Mulk. The Ala-ed-Dowleh was
appointed Governor-General of Fars and His Highness Prince Herman Ferma
succeeded him in Kermanshah.
In March General Kossakovsky, who had for many years commanded the
Cossack Brigade at Tehran, resigned and was succeeded by Colonel
Tchernozouiboff.
Early in April His Majesty’s Consul-General in Odessa reported that the
Russian Government had granted the Russian Steam Navigation Company a
subsidy of 200,000 roubles a year for ten years in consideration of four sailings
a year to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. The Russian Government were to retain a prevaFl-
ing voice in the selection of the Company's representative in the Gulf.
Towards the end of April serious disturbances took place at Meshed and
were probably encouraged by the local Russian representative with a view to
bringing about the recall of the Nayer-ed-Dowleh, Governor-General of Khor
asan. The result of the riots was the resignation of the Nayer-ed-Dowleh.
The desire of the Indian Government that the Imperial Bank should
establish a branch in Seistan was realised in May by the acceptance by the
Directors of the conditions proposed by the Indian Government viz a
maximum subsidy of £1,500 a year for five years, that maximum to be reduced
by the amount of any net profits after the deduction of ordinary expenses
including interest at the rate of 5 percent, per annum on the capital allotted to
the branch. r
During the last week in May the Grand Yizier succeeded in persuadim
the Shah to appoint Ins rival, the Hakim-ul-Mulk, Governor of Gilan and si
remove his principal opponent from Tehran. The alleged reason for the Atabeg’!
action was that be could not reform the finances of Persia unless the Hakim-ul
Mulk was prevented from thwarting his efforts in that direction. His Highnes:
Sir A. Hardinge’s telegram No. 75 of May 27tL, 1904. aCCUSed his rival of having inspire!
against the Shah and the Persian Government.^^^ 10118 paraplllets dire cte(
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The file contains papers relating to Seistan [Sistan] and Persia [Iran].
The file includes printed copies of despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorasan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, with enclosed despatches from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Marquis of Salisbury). Skyes’s despatches regard matters including: Seistan; trade routes into South-East Persia; the boundary between Persia and Afghanistan, in relation to the River Helmund [Helmand] changing its course (in despatch No. 5, which includes four sketch maps, folios 12, 13, 14 and 15); Sykes’s journey to Birjand (in despatch No. 7, which includes a sketch map on folio 20); the ruling family of Kain, which also governed Seistan, Tabbas and Tun; Sykes’s journey from Seistan to Kerman [Kirman] (in despatch No. 11, which includes a sketch map); and the direct Kerman-Quetta caravan trade that Sykes was trying to establish.
The file also includes copies of the following papers:
- A despatch from Temple to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing a letter from Temple to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (HM Minister, Tehran), with copies of enclosures, regarding the establishment of a Seistan and Kain consulate
- A letter from Charles Edward Pitman, Director General of Telegraphs, to the Secretary to the Government of India Public Works Department, enclosing a copy of a ‘Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier’ by H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department, which includes six photographs of views along the route [Mss Eur F111/352, f 52; Mss Eur F111/352, f 53; Mss Eur F111/352, f 54; Mss Eur F111/352, f 55; Mss Eur F111/352, f 56; and Mss Eur F111/352, f 57], and a map showing the proposed route of the telegraph line [Mss Eur F111/352, f 59]
- Letters from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing copies of the diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai, for the weeks ending 16 February, 28 February, and 8 March 1900
- Diary No. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Major-General George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, HM Consul for Seistan (Diary No. 6 includes a sketch map, folio 86)
- A copy of a ‘Report on Reconnaissances Made while Attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission’ by W A Johns, Deputy Consulting Engineer for Railways, Bombay
- A copy of the report ‘Notes on Persian Seistan’, compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, and issued by the Government of India Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General’s Department
- Two copies of map signed by Plunkett titled ‘Persian Seistan-Cultivated Area’ [Mss Eur F111/352, f 270]
- A booklet entitled ‘Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman.’
- Printed copies of letters from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), relating to the maintenance of British interests in Persia, dated 4 September 1899 and 7 November 1901 (the former with an enclosure of a minute by the Viceroy on Seistan).
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- 1 file (388 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 390; 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 file contains one foliation anomaly, f 301A
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- Title
- 'Seistan'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 58r:58v, 60r:112r, 113r:125v, 147r:218r, 218r, 219r:269v, 271r:301v, 301Ar, 301Av, 302r:388v, 389v:390r, 389r, back
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