Coll 28/87 ‘Persia. Railways. Mirjawa-Duzdap Section of Duzdap Railway; Zahidan Railway; Road communications between Persia & Indian Persia.’
IOR/L/PS/12/3493B
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The record is made up of 1 file (19 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1949-8 Feb 1949. 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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Correspondence relating to an enquiry dated 29 December 1948 from the British Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougetel, to the Foreign Office, asking if the archives of the Government of India’s External Affairs Department dating prior to Indian partition (1947) can be freely shared with the Government of Pakistan. The specific document to which Le Rougetel’s enquiry relates is a secret memorandum on the Zahidan railway, situated on the frontier between Iran and Pakistan.
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- 1 file (19 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. File notes at the rear of the correspondence (ff 2-5) mirror the chronological arrangement.
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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 21; 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/12/3493B
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- Coll 28/87
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- 1 Jan 1949-8 Feb 1949 (CE, Gregorian)
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Coll 28/87 ‘Persia. Railways. Mirjawa-Duzdap Section of Duzdap Railway; Zahidan Railway; Road communications between Persia & Indian Persia.’, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3493B, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000034> [accessed 18 April 2024]
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3493B
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- Coll 28/87 ‘Persia. Railways. Mirjawa-Duzdap Section of Duzdap Railway; Zahidan Railway; Road communications between Persia & Indian Persia.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:20v, 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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- Open Government Licence