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Coll 28/33 ‘Persia., Internal. Probable happenings on the death of the Shah.’ [17r] (33/108)
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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5 . Under the conditions that prevailed in Pre-V/ar
Persia it was inevitable that the two foreign Powers - Great
Britain and Russia - most interested in her concerns should
wield considerable influence at the Persian Court, Even in
such matters as the appointment of provincial Governors the
Russian and British Ministers at Tehran had considerable say,
while the latter - on one occasion - had to issue a circular
asking his Consuls not to give local Persians, Officials and
others^certificates of ’good conduct’, which when presented
at the Legation - with hopes of favours to come - caused
not a little embarrassment. As for the interests which thfes
influence served, Persia - from our point of view - was
important to us under ■fiforee main headings: as an avenue of
approach, political or strategical, or both, by a hostile
Power on India either direct or via the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
; as a
market for trade; and - after about 1910 - as an oil-field.
4. In pursuance of those interests, and in defence of
the lives and property and trade of British subjects endangered
by the general state of insecurity, diplomatic action at Tehran
was supplemented by military action on a limited scale,
combined with threats of such action on a larger scale, in the
South. A striking picture of Southern Persia in pre-war
days is given in the Administration Reports of the Bushire
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
. As a ’sample* of the situation at that period
bbotK confronting the Resident, the Government of India, and
the British Government, a situation which mutatis mutandis
may well again rise on the death of Reza Shah, and which
therefore repays study, the following very brief precis of
the years 1911-1912-1913 may be taken. In 1911 * the
position
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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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