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'Persia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 80' [22v] (51/164)
The record is made up of 1 volume (78 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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38
HISTORY
[No. 80
The text of this document was at once published
(September 14, 1907) in the Persian Press, but it was
not published in England until January 1909. 1 Its
importance lies in the fact that it represents the most
magnanimous interpretation of the much discussed
" spirit " of the Anglo-Russian Agreement. 2
Quite different was the view of the Agreement
taken by the Russian Government, which from the
first seems to have had in view an effective partition
of Persia. How far Colonel Liakhoff, the commanding
officer of the Cossack Brigade (a force consisting of
Persians officered by Russians), acted under instruc
tions from his Government, or of the Viceroy of the
Caucasus, when he bombarded the Majlis on June 23,
1908, and re-established the Shah's autocratic rule,
cannot easily be verified; but it is certain that the
Russian Legation at least in no way disapproved of
his action. A year later, on July 13, 1909, when he
entirely failed to make good his boasts as to his ability
to hold in check the Nationalist forces advancing from
the west and south upon Teheran, to whom he was
finally obliged to surrender, he was speedily recalled
to Russia. 3
As the result of this triumph of the Nationalist
armies, Muhammad 'All Shah was compelled to
abdicate in favour of his twelve-year-old son Sultan
Ahmad (the present Shah); the constitution was
restored; and the second Majlis, or Parliament, elected
as. speedily as possible, assembled on November
15, 1909. The victorious Nationalists behaved with a
self-control and moderation which won warm praises
even from those who had not hitherto regarded them
with much sympathy or favour; the Russians sent
(September 24) a new and more sympathetic Minister,
M. Poklevski Koziell, to replace "the much-mistrusted
1 In ^ Brief Narrative of Recent Events in Persia by E G
Browne, pp. 28-30. > j ■ •
^ ful1 translation of the Memorandum (which was originally
written m 1 ersian) will be found in the Appendix, p. 127
He left Teheran on Aug. 4, 1909
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This volume concerns the geography, political history and economic conditions of Persia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in June 1919.
It is divided into three sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'(folios 4-8); 'Political History'(folios 9-32); 'Social and Political Conditions' (folios 33-36) and 'Economic Conditions' (folios 37-64). In Appendix, extract from treaties, in English and French, and statistic tables regarding trade in Persia 1910-1915.
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- 1 volume (78 folios)
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There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 78. There is also an original pagination, from 1 to 149.
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