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Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ [115r] (240/1038)
The record is made up of 1 volume (514 folios). It was created in 17 Feb 1931-27 Apr 1938. It was written in English and French. 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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achieve an admittedlf difficult reooncileBient between the
defence of British interests ana the preparation of the ground
for future good relatione between Great Britain, India and Iran*
Much of Colonel Daly*a appreciation is of course true
11 .
outside the confines of East Persia though even there it is
perhaps a penetrating critique rather than an "appreciation"
of what the Shah has done* f £o obtain a good picture of the
country as a whole, I suggest that his paper be read in con~
junction with an address given to the loyal Institute of Inter*
national Affairs last aufuiBn (and since published in its Journal)
by Mr. Cecil idwarde who has fcnown other parts of Persia inti*
mately over a number of years. nevertheless, Colonel Paly 1 s
paper remains an indictment sufficiently formidable to confirm
misgivings as to the future (though it is interesting and per*
haps almost encouraging that Sant Persia, where the regime is
so markedly unpopular, should also be the region in * 'rsia
relations with this country and India are easily at their worst.)
It is true that the Shah has the final word in everything of im
portance and that improvement of relations in Ia«t Persia and
elsewhere depends upon his goodwill. Nevertheless I would ven*
ture to revert to an opinion expressed in the paragraph of my
despatch So. £19 already referred to, that there my be advantage
in His Majesty* a Legation not being the Shah's close confidante,
more nartioularly from the fact that Persian opinion already
tends to associate the Legation unduly with his regime.
Ambassador at Baghdad Bo* 54 and to
Kabul So. &3&/17/36.
Secretary
54 and to His Majesty 1 s Minister
I have the honour to be wi
Sir,
’.with the highest respect,
(S^ned)
Tour most obedient,
humble Servant,
Nevile Butler.
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Correspondence and reports submitted by British officials in Persia [Iran], along with newspaper cuttings collected from the British and Persian press, relating to the Shah of Persia, Reza Shah Pahlavi. Subjects covered include:
- The Shah’s tours and visits around Persia, including to the towns and cities of Sistan [Zabol], Bushire, Shiraz, Meshed [Mashhad], Kermanshah, Tabriz, Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
- Reports of economic and political conditions in Persia.
- The first Minister of the Persia Court, Teymourtache [Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh], including his dismissal by the Shah in 1933, and his subsequent trial, imprisonment and death.
- Speculation over the health of the Shah.
- Treatment of the Bakhtiari tribes by the Shah and his Government.
- The Shah’s programme of modernisation in Persia, including the enforcement of European hats for men and unveiling of women, military reforms, and schemes for urban development.
- A rebellion and massacre at the Goharshad shrine in Meshed in July 1935, provoked by a backlash against the Shah’s modernising tendencies. Papers include a secret report written by the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan, Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly (ff 218-222).
Principal correspondents in the file include: the British Legation at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare; Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; Nevile Montagu Butler); the Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran (Victor Alexander Louis Mallet); the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan (Daly).
Newspaper cuttings from the Persian press are written in French.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (514 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 510; 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. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present in parallel between ff 222-510 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:6v, 8r:43v, 45r:144v, 148r:180v, 182r:182v, 185r:232v, 235r:242v, 244r:248v, 250r:304v, 309r:312v, 316r:319v, 321r:324v, 326r:333v, 335r:343v, 345r:350v, 352r:354v, 356r:359v, 361r:377v, 380r:390v, 391v:394r, 395v:398v, 400r:401v, 403r:419v, 421r:431v, 433r:436v, 439r:493v, 495r:510v, iii-r:iv-v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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