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'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence' [33r] (70/616)
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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CHAPTER V
RUSSIAN ASCENDENCY IN TEHERAN : THE
POWER OF THE SWORD
PETER the Great's celebrated will is doubtless an
apocryphal document, but it can nevertheless
hardly be denied that in it are to be found the germs
of the Asiatic policy which his successors on the
Russian throne have more or less deliberately pursued
down to the present day. It was Peter the Great who
gave the first impulse to Russian ambitions in the
direction of Persia. In 1715 he despatched to the
Persian Court at Isfahan under Colonel Walinsky the
first of those semi-military missions with undefined
and elastic powers which have played since then so
large a part in the Asiatic diplomacy of Russia.
Within eight years from that date Peter himself had
advanced as far as Derbend on the Caspian at the head
of a Russian army, and wrested from the feeble young
Shah Tahmasp II., in return for illusory promises of
assistance against the Afghans, a treaty ceding to
Russia the whole of the Persian littoral provinces of
the Caspian. The bargain was, however, never carried
out, and on the death of Peter in 1725, Nadir Kuli
Khan, whose fame as Nadir Shah was soon to spread
throughout Asia, had little difficulty in re-establishing
Persian authority in the provinces which his master
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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