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'The Middle Eastern question or some political problems of Indian defence' [186r] (376/616)
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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RUSSIAN METHODS
297
and addicted to every form of sensual self-indulgence,
unchecked by his ministers, who for their own purposes
pander to his reckless extravagance, he naturally clings
to the Power that is not only ready to provide for his
financial necessities, but delicately refrains from asking
any unpleasant questions as to how the money is spent.
By financing Persia as she has done during the last
few years, Russia has secured a grip of the entire Persian
administration, so far as it is controlled from Teheran.
In the meantime she is recouping herself by prosecuting
the commercial conquest of Persia. For this purpose
she has not only at her service a powerful institution
like the Russian Banque d'Escompte at Teheran, which
is merely a department of the Russian Ministry of
Finance, but she has shown that she can manipulate the
whole commercial policy of Persia. She has succeeded
in negotiating over our head a new tariff agreement
with Persia for the benefit of her own trade which we
have been compelled to accept as the basis of our own
commercial relations. Apart from these considerations
she has got excellent security for her loans ; and when
the inevitable hour of Persian bankruptcy arrives she
is in an admirable position for exercising, forcibly or
otherwise, her rights of foreclosure. As far as the
Customs, which constitute the formal security for the
Russian loans, are concerned, she is already in posses
sion, through the Belgian administration, which, though
nominally neutral, is, and must inevitably be, dominated
by the Russian Ministry of Finance.
The people of Persia have a vague consciousness of
impending ruin, but they have no leaders, and in any
case they realise that the old remedies by which they
used to help themselves when dynastic misrule had
overstepped the limits even of Oriental patience cannot
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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'.
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- 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