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'Persia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 80' [32r] (70/164)
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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Persia] RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA 57
of Astarabad, in the south-east angle of the Caspian
Sea. Apart from so-called "pacific penetration," it
may be said that the Russo-Persian frontier west of the
Caspian was finally determined in 1828, and east
of the Caspian in 1881 and 1893.
(3) Great Britain
The Treaty of Peace which concluded the Anglo-
Persian War was signed at Paris on March 4, 1857,
and ratified at Baghdad on May 2, 1857, and it com
prised 14 articles. Its most important stipulations
were those whereby Persia renounced all claims to
sovereignty over Herat or any part of Afghanistan
(Art. 5-8) and tendered an apology to the British
Minister at Teheran (Art. 10). Provision is made
(Art. 9) for the appointment of four classes of Consular
officers', without limitation of number or specification
of place of residence. There is an article (13) provid
ing for the suppression of the slave-trade in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and another (12) whereby the British
Government renounces the right of protecting
Persian subjects not employed in the British Legation
or Consulate,
"provided that no such right is accorded to or exercised by any
other Foreign Power; but in this, as in all other respects, the
British Government requires, and the Persian Government
engages, that the same privileges and immunities shall in»
Persia be conferred upon and shall be enjoyed by the British
Government, its servants and its subjects, -und that the same
respect and consideration shall be shown for them and shall be
enjoyed by them as are conferred and enjoyed by and shown to
the most favoured Foreign Government, its servants and its
subjects."
Besides this treaty there are several important
telegraphic conventions, the first (1868) providing for
the construction of a land line between Guadar, in
British Baluchistan, and some point on the Persian
coast between Bandar Abbas and Jask; the second
(1873) " for continuing the system of telegraphic com-
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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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- 'Persia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 80'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:78v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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