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Coll 29/74 'Reorganisation of the Consular Service in Persia: establishment of a rest house at Shiraz; arrangements at Isfahan' [‎465v] (932/956)

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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work - for the Vice-Consul at Mohammerah in respect of the
refineries at Abadan and for the Consul at Ahwaz in respect
of the producing areas at Masjid-i-Suleiman and Haft Khel.
The amount of routine work is not however of primary
importance. It is the general defence of the company’s
interests that matters and as this is a point upon which
misconcention is apt to arise I may be pardoned if I express
my views with some exactitude.
4. It is often said, and is quite true up to a
point, that the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, like the Imperial
Bank of Persia, are able to look after themselves and have
little need of assistance from His Majesty’s Consular
Officers. The Company certainly maintain their own
’’political 11 services and, in addition to the Resident
Director in Tehran, are represented in Ahwaz by an official
directly resnonsible to the General Manager at Abadan.
This official is in close touch with the Governor-General
of the Province and conducts most of the Company’s business
without any assistance from the Consul. This self-dependence
does not as a rule outlive serious trouble or the threat of
serious trouble; recent instances have been the impossible
situation which arose out of the orders given by the
Minister of Finance on the occasion of his visit to Abadan
in 1928 and the communist disorders of 1929. But the
self-dependence of the Company in normal times is not the
real point. I can easily envisage a situation arising
in which the defence of the company’s interests might,
through the weakness of the Persian Government (following,
for instance, upon the death of the Shah), or even the
active hostility of that Government, devolve upon His
Majesty’s Government, not necessarily in the military sense
but in the sense that the company’s political machinery
would have no material uron which to grip, and the steps
necessary

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The file concerns the reorganization of consular establishments in Persia.

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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' [‎465v] (932/956), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3650, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100046974912.0x000085> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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