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Coll 29/74 'Reorganisation of the Consular Service in Persia: establishment of a rest house at Shiraz; arrangements at Isfahan' [392r] (785/956)
The record is made up of 1 file (475 folios). It was created in 31 Dec 1932-16 Sep 1943. It was written in English. 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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event of its disposal it will be necessary to rent a
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small resthouse at Isfahan for the use of a Visiting
Consular Officer. (This will he the case whether
Isfahan is absorbed by Tehran or made subordinate to
Shiraz, for in the former event visits three or four
times a year by an officer of consular standing will
presumably be no less necessary than in thelatter).
.
The house appears to be the property of the Foreign
Office (as the Shiraz house is of the Government of
India). Subject to confirmation of this assumption,
(which is being checked) we should have no interest
in the sale proceeds.
4. As regards the proposal to raise Ahwaz to a
Consul ate-General, there is, as Mr. Walton points out
In his minute on P.Z.3S06/33, considerable force in
the Foreign Office arguments and Ido not think that
they are altogether disposed of by the counter
arguments adduced by the Resident and the Government
of India. On the other hand, this is, as we know, a
point on which the Resident feels strongly, and our
general principle being to endeavour so far as
possible to concentrate responsibility in the Gulf in
his hands, we might, I think, at any rate in the first
instance , support the proposals of Colonel Fowle and
the Government of India. Ah additional reason for
doing so, from our point of view, is that if we are
obliged to move the Resident’s headquarters from
Bushire, the Foreign Office are likely to urge strongly
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that the Consul-General Ahwaz shall become
responsible for Bushire and Bunder Abbas. In the
interest of retaining the Resident as the chief
coordinating authority in the Gulf and preserving for
him some degree of close liaison and control in
South Persia, we had hitherto been anxious to secure
that
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The file concerns the reorganization of consular establishments in Persia.
The file covers:
- Foreign Office proposals to amalgamate Isfahan and Shiraz Consulates and to raise status of Consular Officer at Ahwaz to Consul-General, 1933
- acquisition of buildings for the Ahwaz Consulate, 1933
- proposal to lease consular properties at Isfahan and Hamadan, 1933
- proposed sale of consular property at Isfahan and disposal of the furniture therein 1934-35
- summer recess of 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. and his staff at the Consular House at Shiraz, 1934-35. A sketch of the Consular House is on f 219
- proposed sale of consular property at Hamadan, 1935
- Foreign Office proposal that HM Consul at Shiraz should rent accommodation at Isfahan during his visits on duty, 1936
- proposed transfer of the Shiraz 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. buildings from the Government of India to HM Government, 1936
- lease of property in Shiraz for use as summer headquarters for 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. , 1937-43
- Consular Office and Rest House at Isfahan, includes inventory of furniture (ff 33-44), 1936-39.
The file is composed of correspondence between the Political 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the British Legation at Tehran, the British Consulate at Isfahan, the British Consulate at Ahwaz, the British Consulate at Shiraz, the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Government of India, the HM Office of Works, and the Secretary of State for India.
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- 1 file (475 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 477; 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 29/74 'Reorganisation of the Consular Service in Persia: establishment of a rest house at Shiraz; arrangements at Isfahan'
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- front, front-i, 2r, back-i, back, 2v:477v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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