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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [121r] (252/880)
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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No. 10 OF 1925.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN AND POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
Near East.
Subject. — Incidence of Diplomatic and Consular Expenditure in Persia.
To
The Right Hon’ble the EARL of BIRKENHEAD,
His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
Simla, the 8th October 1925.
My Lord,
We have the honour to refer to your predecessor’s telegram No. 2409,
dated the 25th August 1924, in which we were asked to submit our views on the
proposals made by the Foreign Office in their letter No. E. 0771-480/34, dated the
14th July 1924 for the incidence of Diplomatic and Consular expenditure in Persia.
We regret the delay which has occurred in forwarding them which has been chiefly
due to our anxiety to devise, if possible, (in consultation with our officers stationed
in Southern and Eastern Persia) some formula acceptable alike to the Imperial and
Indian Governments.
2. We appieciate the accommodating spirit which has prompted the Foreign
Office to make their proposals and consider that the new principles of division, on
which they are based, will contributenpt a little to a final settlement of this difficult
question. In particular we welcomjproposal which would fix a definite limit to our
commitments, and we understand that under it we should not be called on to bear
any portion of exceptional expenditure such as that to which we have raised
objection in the past. The wording of paragraph 10 of the Foreign Office letter
however leaves us in some doubt on this point.
3. We see, however, several objections to the Foreign Office proposals.
First it appears to us that the point at which India’s annual contribution
would become fixed at £50,000 would be unlikely to be reached for many years,
and that the relief that we should receive m the meantime would not be great,
A useful index to what extent the hopes of savings built up on a transfer of Consu
lates from the Indian to the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
establishment are likely to be fulfilled, would be
furnished by the savings that have accrued from the transfer that has taken place at
Ahwaz during the past year.
Secondly even with an eventual contribution of £50,000 India would appa
rently be paVing little short of half the total expenditure and for the reasons we
have previously put forward, we consider that this would be unfair to her
Thirdly, if all Consulates were to be manned by officers of the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
service,
we ourselves would lose that small amount of control that we stall exert and consider
it advisable that we should exert, in areas where India has special interests.
Fourthly though we have no doubt that officers of the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
service would
bend their bSt endeavours adequately to represent
obvious that they would not be ^S^ed re!,twe m lndil ti S aild
wffich perhaps oM S Indian traders and communities in Persia would only value at its
proper worth when actually deprived of the great assistance such knowledge affords.
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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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