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File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’ [‎260r] (267/300)

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The record is made up of 1 item (149 folios). It was created in 2 Jul 1914-18 Jun 1915. 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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H.t 'e Vloe-r-onBulate Ahwws,
•ap ZafMwa , July 2 1914 .
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Sir»
I have the honour to addrear your Excellency on the
Bubje t oi the launch road. I had intended to submit thin
report directly on arrival in Isfahan,but have been pre -
vented by more preaeing work.
The subject resolves itself into several heads,
which I will doe! with seriatim.
U) woed gervi e .
I regret to say that the condition of the road
is worse than I have ever before seen it. The attached
schedule, Ho. l.showF the places where repair if, divers ion, or
ettention is imperatively necessary. I use the word ad -
visedly,for had I said necessary I should have had to men -
tion almost every mile of the hill section. The road is in
en awful state and its difficulty is testified to by the
numerous skeletons of horses,of transport animals of every
kind,in all stages of nauseous decay which strew the hill
seotion.
(*) aravanaerajs ic rorts .
Had anyone taken the trouble to climb up to the
"forts** and to inspect the caravanserais,about which so
much has been written in despatches during the last couple
of ye are, the absolute futility of the former, and the inad
equacy of the latter would have been exposed at a gl&noe.
Both
81 r W.Townley.K. .1.0.,
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This part contains papers, mostly correspondence and 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. minute papers, relating to British interests and Russian policy in the South of Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to the following:

  • the condition of the Lynch road from Ahwaz to Isfahan (the Bakhtiari Road)
  • the question of how far diplomatic action by HM Government in order to rehabilitate British interests in South Persia is desirable or practicable in existing circumstances
  • the Foreign Office recommendation that revised assurances should be given to the Sheikh of Mohammerah, in order to strengthen the British position in Arabistan
  • the Foreign Office view that the moment is not opportune for taking up the various questions of policy in South Persia
  • the collection of taxes by Russian consuls in Persia
  • the state of affairs in the districts of Urmia and Soujboulak
  • the appointment of a Governor-General at Ispahan
  • grievances of the Persian Government against the Russian Government
  • Russian ‘intrigues’ with the Bakhtiari khans
  • the proposed substitution of a Bakhtiari for Nizam-es-Sultaneh as Governor-General of Luristan

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IOR/L/PS/10/451/1
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File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’
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127r:144v, 147r:195r, 199r:200v, 201v:224v, 226v:232v, 234r:276v
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East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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