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'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence' [35r] (74/616)
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 CASPIAN A RUSSIAN LAKE 41
back as the Treaty of Turkman Chai in 1828 to sub
scribe to an engagement, under which she is debarred
from flying her flag on its waters. The monopoly
which Russia thus obtained for her ships of war was
further secured for her merchant flag by a decree of the
Imperial Council of State at St. Petersburg issued
November 24th, 1869, prohibiting the establishment of
companies for the navigation of the Caspian by any
but Russian subjects and the purchase of any shares in
such companies by foreigners. To-day, in addition to
a small flotilla of despatch vessels and gunboats, there
is in the Caspian a considerable fleet of mail and
merchant steamers under the Russian flag, many of
them with a large carrying capacity, employed in the
Baku petroleum trade, which would be available at any
moment for the transport of troops. The island of
Ashurada, in the south-east corner of the Caspian,
just off the coast of Mazenderan, is occupied by the
Russians as a naval station.
East of the Caspian the Russian forces along the
Persian frontier form part of the Turkestan Corps
d'Armee of a peace strength of 22,000 men with thirty-
eight guns. Of the two corps into which the Turkestan
Corps (TArmee is divided, the 1st has its headquarters
at Tashkend, and may be regarded mainly as a Central
Asian police force. The 2nd Corps has its head
quarters at Ashkabad, the military and administrative
capital of Trans-Caspia, and the greater part of it is
distributed along the Trans-Caspian Railway, which
skirts the Persian frontier more or less closely for some
200 miles. As far as I have been able to ascertain, it
consists, on a peace footing, of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th
brigades of Turkestan Rifles, two brigades of Trans-
Caspian Cossacks, two railway battalions, four batteries
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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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