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File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900' [322r] (656/880)
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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these decisions. For facility of reference we reproduce in an Appendix a list of
these items as revised up to date, and proceed to comment on some of them in the
light of the remarks just made. We shall for the present purpose draw no distinc
tion between items which have been held to be recoverable from Persia, and those
which are not so classified. Even if recovery is ultimately made, the payment will
in the meantime have imposed a severe strain on our resources and materially
affected our revenue position
Item No. 1 (a).—We were debited in 1915-16 with a sum of £7,500 as a moiety
of the compensation given to the Far man Far ma for destruction of his
property by the Nationalist Party. We were not consulted on this
proposal.
- Item No. 1 ( 6 ).—We were not consulted with regard to the payment of sub
sidies to the Farman Farma, which commenced in 1916, True, in 1919
we supported a proposal for one particular payment to him, but this
was for a specific purpose, ^., the maintenance of the guards on the
northern road, and we urged the need for an early curtailment of our
liabilities on this account. The actual payments made to him were for
many purposes other than the maintenance of the road guards and we
were debited with a total of £48,483 as a subsidy to the Farman
Farma in 1916-17 ; £39,142 in 1917-18; £23,677 in 1918-19; £15,707
in 1919-20, and £1,837 in 1920-21.
Items No. 2 {a\ and 2 ( 6 ).—We were consulted regarding the comparatively
small payments to the Sardars Jung and Bahadur but were not
consulted regarding the large sums paid to Bakhtiari Khans in
1915-16—of which the moiety debited to us amounted to £17,000.
These payments were made mainly in the interests of the Anglo-
Persian Oil Company towards which as has since been recognized
by the India Office—mde Secretary* Political Department’s letter
No. P-5661, dated the 12 th January 1922, to our Secretary in the
Foreign and Political Department-—we have no kind of obligation.
Item No^ 2 [d ).—The subsidy to
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Zafarwas sanctioned without refer
ence to us ; the amounts debited to India were £1,082 in 1918-19 and
£93 in 1919-20.
Item No. 3 (a).—No reference was made to us regarding the cost of the re
moval from Meshed to Shahrud of the Cossack Division, for which we
were debited with £1,525 in 1918-19.
Item No. 3 ( 6 ).—In regard to the general expenses of the Cossack Division,
we would note that we deprecated the financing of the Cossack
Division, but stated that, if the proposals for further finance were
adopted, the incidence would depend on the decision regarding the so-
called political expenditure in Persia. We had previously expressed
the opinion that this expenditure should not be shared by India, as
being outside the scope of the Government of India Act and the
Parliamentary Kesolutions regarding India’s financial liabilities
during the war. The decision adopted, however, was to finance the
force, and India was debited with £258,592 in 1918-19, £176,840 in
1919-20, and £271,525 in 1920-21. We still feel the greatest difficulty
in comprehending how this expenditure on a force intended to co
operate with the Norperforce based on Mesopotamia could be
brought within the terms of the Besolutions of Parliament or the
Government of India Act.
C73J?D
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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.
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- 1 volume (430 folios)
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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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