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'Persia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 80' [43v] (93/164)
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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80 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ino.so
access, without break of gauge, both to the Mediter
ranean and to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and affording a good
through -route from Europe to India, or by lines of
metre gauge to the exclusion of all three competing
gauges. The adoption of the metre gauge would, how
ever, be a serious impediment to any through route to
India, and, if it is proposed to favour or tolerate an
effective overland route to India via Constantinople,
British interests will be best served by the adoption of
the standard gauge, the exact point of junction with
the Indian gauge system being left for future
determination.
This policy would justify the extra expense of con
structing a 4 ft. 8| in. gauge railway through the diffi
cult section between Kasr-i-Shirin and Kirmanshah,
and the completion of this railway to Hamadan would
render unnecessary for many years the direct outlet
from the centre of Persia to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. This
decision would remove the only argument for the re
tention of the metre gauge in Mesopotamia and would
facilitate communication in the future between Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Persia and, ultimately, India. The
adoption of the European standard gauge would also
favour the Constantinople route to India, passing
through British control at Baghdad, as against the
Black Sea or Russian route.
There would be no objection to narrow gauge feeder
lines in Persia, provided that they were not constructed
on any of the routes selected for future main lines and
that the gauge were sufficiently small (not wider than
2 ft. 6 in.) to avoid the risk of two competitive main
lines being established, as is the case in India.
(b) Roads
The construction of railways in Persia represents
the best possible means of developing the commercial
resources of the country, but doubts have been expressed
as to whether in the near future there will be money
available for schemes which, though ultimately of im
portance, would involve deferred returns in addition to
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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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