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Coll 28/87 ‘Persia. Railways. Mirjawa-Duzdap Section of Duzdap Railway; Zahidan Railway; Road communications between Persia & Indian Persia.’ [10r] (19/42)
The record is made up of 1 file (19 folios). It was created in 1 Jan 1949-8 Feb 1949. 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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R.C. BIACKHAl*!, ESQ.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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My dear Black ham.
You will have seen the telegrams from
Pakistan (No. 76) and India (No, X177)/to our
telegram of 11th January about access to
External Affairs Department records arising out of
Tehran's telegram No. 1012 of 29th December.
Z This is to invite you to tell Tehran^that
they may act /so far as we are concerned^ on the
basis of paragraph 2 of our telegram of 11th
January.
£. It so happens that in the course of a long
conversation the other day, I discussed with
Donald Jackson, just back from being Second
Secretary at our Embassy at Kabul, the question
of the machinery used there in disposing of files
formerly housed in the sole Embassy but now of
interest to all three Commonwealth Embassies, or te
any^t-vro of them. He told me that the British
Embassy had gone through all the files which might
be of interest to the Indians or the Pakistanis
or both, removed occasional pages where any were
found which were clearly unsuitable to be handed
on, and made them quite freely available to the
Indian or Pakistani Embassy. One whole batch of
files had in fact been sent over to the Pakistan
Embassy in the early days. When our people wanted
one, or when they were asked for one by the
Indians, they had no difficulty in recovering it
from the Pakistanis. The whole thing had worked
extremely well with no/ill-feeling in any quarter^
and a point had even been reached at which the
Pakistanis would let their next-door neighbours,
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Correspondence relating to an enquiry dated 29 December 1948 from the British Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougetel, to the Foreign Office, asking if the archives of the Government of India’s External Affairs Department dating prior to Indian partition (1947) can be freely shared with the Government of Pakistan. The specific document to which Le Rougetel’s enquiry relates is a secret memorandum on the Zahidan railway, situated on the frontier between Iran and Pakistan.
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- 1 file (19 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. File notes at the rear of the correspondence (ff 2-5) mirror the chronological arrangement.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 21; 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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- Title
- Coll 28/87 ‘Persia. Railways. Mirjawa-Duzdap Section of Duzdap Railway; Zahidan Railway; Road communications between Persia & Indian Persia.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:20v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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