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'Persia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 80' [40r] (86/164)
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]
RAILWAYS
73
A two years' option was also granted in 1913 to the
Persian Railway Syndicate (a syndicate of English
capitalists) for the construction of a line from Moham-
mera or its neighbourhood to Khoramabad on con
ditions to be arranged, this option being intended to
counterbalance the railway concession granted to the
Russian company. Beyond preliminary surveys, how
ever, nothing has yet been done towards the construction
of this line.
(d) Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones
The posts and telegraphs are under the control of a
Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, but the statistics
of the traffic are unreliable. The first regular postal
service was established by an Austrian official in
Persian employ and opened in January 1877. Under
it mails are regularly conveyed to and from the
principal cities in Persia. Before the war there was
also a regular service (twice weekly) to and from
Europe via Russia, and a weekly service to and from
India via Bushire.
Persia has four systems of telegraphs, which, accord
ing to a return made in 1909 (the latest available),
consist altogether of 6,590 miles of line with 10,908
miles of wire and 129 stations. These systems are
classed as follows:
(1) Those worked by an English staff forming the
Indo-European Telegraph Department in Persia.
This is a British Government Department, established
in virtue of a number of conventions made from 1863
to 1901, between the British and Persian Governments,
the last of which provided for the construction and
working by the British Government of a 3-wire line
from Ardistan via Yezd, Kirman and Bam to Kuh-i-
Malik Siah, where connection is obtained with the
Indian telegraph system. Telegraphic communication
with India was established by this route in 1904. The
line, which was constructed under the supervision and
at the expense of the British Government, is known
as the Central Persian Telegraph; its headquarters
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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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