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Coll 28/33 ‘Persia., Internal. Probable happenings on the death of the Shah.’ [16r] (31/108)
The record is made up of 1 file (52 folios). It was created in 15 Jan 1926-30 Nov 1931. 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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cnvention
of 1907.
capital with ease and ejected the local Governor, and that a
tribal confederation could have taken Tehran* ( The Bakhti&ries
in supporting the Nationalist movement actually entered the
capital in 1909). The tribes, however, felt no particular
hostility to the Government as long as they were left alone,
and the government by a policy of bribery, treachery and
divide and rule based on internal tribal dissensions, was able
to keep them from such extreme steps as concerted rebellion.
Caravans on the trade routes were, however, systematically
pillaged, and the routes sometimes closed for months together.
The establishment of a Constitutional government, and of a
Mejlis in 1910, of which so much was expected in Persia and
in certain sympathetic circles outside, brought no improvement.
This, however, was not altogether the fault of the Persian
Government. w From the outset it appeared that Bussian
representatives and officers in Persia, if not indeed, the
* ._J
Russian Government themselves, regarded the agreement as an
instrument intended to prepare the way for eventual annexa
tion by Russia of the northern and perhaps also the neutral
zone. They believed that the Persian Nationalist movement,
unless overthrown, would provide the chief obstacle to the
accomplishment of this end.* ( P.G.13 p.10). During the
Var Persia, though nominally neutral, was the scene of
military operations conducted by the various belligerents,
and- its conclusion left Great Britain, with the collapse
of Russia, the dominant Power in the country. The removal
of British troops from Persia, the disbandment of the various
Persian levies which we had raised ? and the rejection by the
Mejlis of the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919, marked the end
of the old era and the beginning of a new one.
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Correspondence and notes relating to the law of succession in Persia [Iran], and possible events in Persia, in the event of the death of the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. The file includes:
- Correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, dated 1 March 1930, informing Government of the death in France of the ex-Shah of Persia, Ahmed Kadjar [Ahmad Qajar], along with cuttings from the French newspapers Le Temps and Le Matin , reporting on ex-Shah’s death (ff 42-45).
- A report, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy C R Dodd, Military Attaché at the British Legation, Tehran, dated 3 December 1930, on the present relations between the Shah and his army, and its bearing on the stability of the Pahlavi regime (ff 35-38).
- A report entitled The Future of Persia , written by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle, dated October 1931 (ff 14-30).
- The text of an interview between an American journalist called Mr James, and the Persian Prime Minister Abdolhossein Teymourtache [Teymourtash], undated. Notes from a demi-official letter enclosing the text, from Captain John Ignatius Ennis, Intelligence Officer at the Baluchistan Intelligence Bureau in Quetta, dated 12 August 1931, also give details of James’ impressions of his visit to Russia (ff 3-12).
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- 1 file (52 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 54; 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.
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- Coll 28/33 ‘Persia., Internal. Probable happenings on the death of the Shah.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 13r:41v, 44r:53v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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