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'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence' [13r] (30/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (306 folios ). It was created in 1903. 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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THE
MIDDLE EASTERN QUESTION
CHAPTER I
THE MIDDLE EASTERN QUESTION DEFINED
AT the close of the very weighty speech with which
-/v. the Viceroy of India concluded the Budget debate
in the Indian Council at Calcutta this year (March 25th,
1903) occurs the following remarkable passage
u There is one final subject that is rarely mentioned
in these debates, and that finds little place in the many
utterances which the head of the Government is called
upon to make in the course of the year, and yet in a sense
it is the most important of all. I allude to Foreign
Affairs ; and it must be remembered that in the case
of India the phrase includes her relations with the
whole of her neighbours, and that this carries with
it the politics of the greater part of the Asiatic Conti
nent. I doubt if even the thoughtful public has at
all realised the silent but momentous change that is
going on, and that will one day have an effect upon
India that is at present but dimly discerned. In the
old days, and it may almost be said up to the
last fifteen years, the foreign relations of India were
practically confined to her dealings with Afghanistan,
and to the designs or movements of the great Power
B
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The volume, written by Valentine Chirol and printed in London by John Murray in 1903, is based on a series of letters written by Chirol during a journey through Persia and the Persian Guf, that appeared in The Times in 1902 and 1903.
The main topics are: the concept of 'Middle East'; the Baghdad Railway; the British role in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Russian influence over Persia; the border of Afghanistan; the North-East Frontier of India, and Tibet. An appendix at the back of the volume contains copies of international treaties, and documents in French on the Baghdad Railway.
The volume contains numerous illustrations and three maps:
- 'Sketch Map of the Borderlands of India';
- 'Sketch Map of Asia showing railway expansion';
- 'Sketch map of Persia and adjoining countries'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (306 folios )
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- IOR/L/PS/20/G43
- Title
- 'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence'
- Pages
- 2r:305v
- Author
- Chirol, Sir (Mary) Ignatius Valentine
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- Public Domain