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Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia; Abadan and S.W. Persian Oilfields; A.I.O.C. Indian Employees’ [‎32r] (63/66)

The record is made up of 1 file (31 folios). It was created in 26 May 1948-4 Mar 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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1948, on
Report on.the Quarter
the Affairs of the Angl
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January - 7T 4r|h( ) J P
lo- Iranian jOil. Oh'ffi-oa ny.
^ 18. Indian. There has recently been sone disaffection
\jln the Indian aiiib in Abadan, insnired by a snail minority
^ the Junior Indian Staff. The ringleaders are A. 7 T,J.
Rodrigues, who holds a Soanese passoort, and P.K.Karianpa.
There are about five others. The Secretary of the Indian
Consultative Committee, P.X.Vaz, has informed the Comnany
that the Indians do not regard this r Committe^ as b^ing truly
representative and that they wish to form an Indian Staff
Association. They have also exoressed the desire that the
retiring President of the Club, Mr.Innes, should be an elected
Indian and not an European. The membership of this Club is
made up as follows:- v uslims 133 (Senior and Junior Staff);
Hindus and Sikhs 261; and Christians (Indian Christians and
Goanese) 359. During the recent elections to the Committee,
Hindus of the Jnior Indian Staff only were returned wit+r^he
consequence that the Muslims and Christians are more or less
frozen out of the Club, and hardly ever go there. Moreover,
the large majority of the Indians who have given years of loyal
service to the Company avoid having anything to do with this
Club owing to its small faction of troublemakers. I discussed
the matter with the General Management at their invitation on the
25th March and their attitude is as follows:- As regards the
proposed Indian Association, they maintain that such an
association is in reality a Union, and cannot therefore be
officially recognised as such, being against the laws of
the Country. They cannot stop the formation of an association
nor do they wish to do so, but they can only use the regular^
channels already in existence, namely the Indian Consultative
Committee, which was properly constituted in the normal manner.
This is bt ing communicated to the Consultative Committee. As
regards the proposals that an Indian should replace ’ f r. Innes
as President, the Company are unable to associate themselves
with this proposition because the Club is subsidised by the v uq
Company, and it is situated in a Company building. The same
is the case of the Bashgar Iran (Iranian Club).
19. There have been reports of violent
anti-Comnany speeches by the ringleaders mentioned above, and the
Company feel that the assurances given by Mr. B ha sin who came
down here last December in connection with the Sikh trouble
(see paragraph 16 of my last quarterly Report) to the effect
that the Company would have no further trouble from these
hotheads, have proved of little value. The Company are under
strong pressure from the Central Government to get rid of their
Indians and to replace them by Iranians, and they propose to
include these undesirable elements in the list of names of
those Indians who are to be retrenched. It is being made
known, however, amongst the Indian Staff that the Company will
do their best for those Indians who have served the Company
loyally and satisfactorily, to obtain jobs in other oil
Companies in the Gulf, especially in Kuwait where it is said
that the Shaikh is anxious to replace Iranians and Iraqis
by Indians. Heedless to say undesirable elements will not be
so recommended. I am in full agreement with the attitude of
the Company in this matter. They have shown great patience
with these communist-minded young men, and I can see no reason
why they should continue to harbour them in their midst at
such a critical juncture in the world’s history. There are,
however, bound to be repercussions when these men find their
. services have been terminated, and shoals of telegrams
^ f alleging ’victimisation* will doubtless reach the Indian
i Ambassador in Tehran in due course, and anti-Company articles
* will appear in the Indian paper ’BLITZ*.
/The ComrV

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The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia. Abadan and S. W. Persian oilfields; Protection of British interests.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3490A). It consists chiefly of extracts of quarterly reports, prepared by HM Consul-General at Khorramshahr, on affairs at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), and extracts from the Khorramshahr Consulate Diary. The reports concern working conditions and unrest amongst Indian and Pakistani employees at AIOC, and subversive activities amongst AIOC employees. Reference is made in several reports to the activities of the Rashtraya Sevak Sangh group at the AIOC (also referred to as the Hindu Communal Army [Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsēvaka Saṅgha]). Some of the reports in the file are marked top secret.

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1 file (31 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The file notes at the front of the file (ff 2-5) are arranged chronologically in the reverse order.

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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 33; 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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