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Coll 28/5 ‘Railways &c; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway; Effect on roads’ [‎171r] (352/870)

The record is made up of 1 volume (428 folios). It was created in 14 Mar 1931-12 Jul 1934. 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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Aaglo-persi&n isau® oan do no harm and can safely he
left to itself*
4* Of more practical interest is the
statement that the sum of four million Kials (say
forty thousand pounds) will pay not only for the
material necessary to operate the railway, hut also for
the railway itself. $he Government of India’s
estimate of the cost of providing the material is about
two lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. (say fourteen thousand pounds)*
This does not mean that the Persian government have
valued the railway itself {that is f the permanent way
and the buildings) at twenty six thousand pounds,
because the credit now voted is apparently intended to
cover working expenses for the current year as well as
the cost of new material* It does, however, give
some indication of the price that the Persian government
would be prepared to pay* This price obviously falls
far short of the estimated capital outlay on the
Jlir^awa-Zahedan section, which is, I believe, placed at
about eighty lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. (say four hundred and
fifty thousand pounds). There could never be any
possibility of the Persian Government paying such a sum
as this| nor do I suppose that an independent valuation
of the railway and railway property now in Persia would
come to nearly such a high figure* But when every
allowance has been made it seems clear that the Persian
offer will have to be greatly increased if the problem
is to be solved on a strictly commercial, as opposed
to a political f basi8*

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Papers relating to the transfer of ownership of the railway line running between Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] and Duzdap [Zahedan] in eastern Persia [Iran], from the Government of India to the Persian Government.

The volume begins with reports of interruptions to monthly rations trains, prompting the Government of India to close down the line. The remainder of the correspondence covers negotiations for the transfer and reopening of the railway:

The volume’s principal correspondents are: the British Legation at Tehran (Robert Henry Clive; Reginald Hervey Hoare); the British Vice-Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly); 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. (Laithwaite); the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter; George William Rendel).

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1 volume (428 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 428; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 391-428 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The front and back covers, along with the two leading flyleaves and single ending flyleaf, have not been foliated.

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Coll 28/5 ‘Railways &c; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway; Effect on roads’ [‎171r] (352/870), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3399, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100049872099.0x000099> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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