File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’

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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

The correspondence is largely between the following:

• the Foreign Office (including Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley, HM Minister to Persia
• the Foreign Office and the Persian Transport Company
• the Foreign Office and Sir George William Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia at St Petersburg
• HM Minister to Persia (Townley and Charles Murray Marling), and Captain J Ranking, HM Vice-Consulate, Ahwaz
• 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. and the Foreign Office
• Major Stuart George Knox, Officiating 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. , and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India

Extent and format

1 item (149 folios)

It is part of

File 1187/1914 Pt 2-3 'Persia. Bakhtiari Road'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/451

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/451/1

Former external reference(s)

P 1187/1914 Pt 2

History of this record

Date(s)

2 Jul 1914-18 Jun 1915 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

HM Ambassador to Soviet RussiaPolitical Resident, Persian GulfGovernment of India, Foreign Secretary

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