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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [‎110r] (230/880)

The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1914-4 Jun 1928. 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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Minute Paper
Department.
step the Secretary of State without offering any
johservat ions hirnsel i , asked the Government of India
for their comments, on 25th August 1924.
p. 3 6 60/25 .
The Government of India replied fourteen months
Later in a despatch dated 8th October 1925, after'
consulting officers serving in South and East Persia, ~
a process which no doubt took some time.
Briefly, they reject the scheme.
Their reasons for doing so are
(i) The point at which India’s contribution
would be reduced to £50,000 will not be reached
for many years, and the relief that India
will receive in the meantime will not be great.
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(ii) Even when that point is reached India will
be paying nearly half the total, which is a
share greater than the Government of India
consider equitable / for reasons already stated.
(iii) If all consulates were manned by Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
service officers the Government of India would
lose the control that they now have, and think
necessary in areas where India has special
interests.
( iv) Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. service officers could probably
not deal with Indian communities in Persian
towns as well as Indian trained officers can.
(v) The Government of India would find it
increasingly difficult to justify to publi
opinion the expenditure of Indian Revenues
Persia without representation. Indian
increasingly difficult to justify to public_
opinion the expenditure of Indian Revenues in
ia without representation. Indian
opinion is already critical of the fact that
India alone of the component parts of the
Emnire contributes to His Haj est-y’s Government ’ s
Diplomatic and Consular expenditure, and would
resent the continuance of a contribution
towards that in Persia / if simultaneously oifrcers
of the Indian service were replaced by Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Service personnel.
Therefore the Government of India press for the
acceptance of their previous proposal, that ^hey
should
345a 5000 4.25

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The volume contains papers mostly relating to expenditure incurred in Persia, and the issue of how this expenditure should be divided between the Imperial and Indian Exchequers.

The papers mainly consist of correspondence between 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 following: the Foreign Office, the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, and the Treasury; as well as 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, Reference Papers, and other 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. papers and notes.

The volume mostly concerns diplomatic and consular expenditure, specifically: the question of revising the existing arrangements under which, following the recommendations of the Welby Commission of 1900, the cost of this expenditure in Persia had been shared roughly equally between the Indian and Imperial Revenues (between the Indian Political Department and the Foreign Office); the proposals of the Foreign Office that Indian Political Department posts in Persia should be transferred to the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Consular Service, and thus come under the responsibility of the Foreign Office, with the Government of India paying a yearly contribution towards the posts; and the objections of the Government of India to the Foreign Office’s proposals.

The volume also includes papers regarding: the cost of troops from the Indian Establishment employed in Oman and Persia during the First World War; and the projected contribution from Indian Revenues of a moiety of a loan of £2,000,000 to the Persian Government under the ‘Curzon Agreement’ [Anglo-Persian Agreement] of 1919. In addition, it includes some papers relating to expenditure on diplomatic and consular establishments in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , Muscat and China, as well as Persia.

The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format
1 volume (430 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The subject 3839 (Part 1, Persia, and Part 2, China) consists of two volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/626-627. The volumes are divided into two parts, with each part comprising one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 430; 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.

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