PZ 2865/40 'Note on the India Office and the Persian Gulf areas'
IOR/L/PS/12/379
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The record is made up of 1 file (4 folios). It was created in 20 May 1940. 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 file details the Government of India’s financial and administrative responsibilities towards the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The text is divided into sections: ‘Iran’ (folio 2), ‘Persian Gulf’ (folios 2 to 3), ‘The Air Route’ (folio 3), ‘Oil’ (folios 3 to 4) and ‘Defence Measures’ (folios 3 to 5).
The papers provide information on the Government of India’s past and current responsibilities and relations with Iran. Also discussed are concerns over a potential Russian advance through Afghanistan and Persian-German relations which in part are attributed to the reign of Reza Shah [Shah of Iran, Pahlavi dynasty].
The significance of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. as a strategic and commercial air route to India, and as a source of oil, now and in the future is discussed. Further highlighted is the responsibility of the Foreign Office and other departments to conduct relations with the Arab states of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Muscat, and the implementation of wartime defence methods in the region.
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- 1 file (4 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; 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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- English in Latin script
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/379
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- PZ 2865/40
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- 20 May 1940 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/L/PS/12/379
- Title
- PZ 2865/40 'Note on the India Office and the Persian Gulf areas'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:5v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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