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Coll 29/45 'General reorganisation of consular posts' [138v] (279/674)
The record is made up of 1 file (334 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1928-11 Oct 1945. 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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Colonel Biscoe) on this subject as expressed in
previous correspondence (see passages marked "A” in
the printed collection).
4. Without being malicious it is fair to suggest
that Colonel i^’owle is very largely influenced by the
aesire to get back the use of the
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.
at Shiraz
as summer quarters for the Resident, and indeed it is
only natural that this should be rather a sore point
with the Resident. The buildings are the property of
the Government of India and charges in connexion with
their upkeep erre* still charged (in the first instance)
to Indian revenues although most of the consular
budget is of course chargeable (in the first instance)
to Foreign Office funds. At present if the Resident
goes to Shiraz on summer recess, a house has to be
rented for him, and it was agreed with the Foreign
Office in 1930 that the final solution of this
question and possible 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.
to the Foreign Office should be deferred
until arrangements for transferring tne Headquarters of
the Resident to the arab littoral of the Gulf were
under consideration.
5. With regard to Colonel Fowle's suggestion that
Shiraz should be transferred to the Indian sphere and
a consular agent appointed to the post, the general
policy of this office in the past as laid down in
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Lord korley's despatch of 25th June 1909 and based to
some extent on financial grounds has been that inland
consular appointments in Persia should as a general
rule be officered from the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Consular Service*
with the two important exceptions of keshed and Sistan.
The/
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The file concerns appointments and reorganisation of the British Consulates in Iran and in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The file covers:
- diplomatic Consular expenditure in Persia: Government of India's proposals for savings
- proposal to move the headquarters of the Sistan Consulate from Sistan to Duzdap and to reduce its establishments, 1928
- proposal to abolish the post of Vice-Consul at Sistan
- proposed amalgamation of Kerman and Bundar Abbas Consulates
- proposed amalgamation of Isfahan and Shiraz Consulates
- amalgamation of Meshed and Sistan Consulates, 1934
- appointment of the Confidential Assistant at Seistan, C W Hart, as Vice-Consul for Meshed, in 1932 and as Consul-General for Meshed in 1933
- abolition of the post of Second Clerk at the Kerman Consulate
- increase of compensatory allowance for clerical staff and Vice-Consul at Meshed
- title and address of the British Consul for Meshed
- appointment of Clive Kirkpatrick Daly as British Consul for Meshed, 1935
- travelling allowances on moves between Meshed and Zabul, 1938.
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 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 British Consulate at Sistan and Kain, the British Consulate for Khorashan (Meshed), the British Legation at Tehran, the Persian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
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- 1 file (334 folios)
- Arrangement
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 335; 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3607
- Title
- Coll 29/45 'General reorganisation of consular posts'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r, back-i, back, 2v:18v, 20r:114v, 115ar, 115r:165r, 165r:165v, 165v:166r, 166r:166v, 166v:200v, 202r:334r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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