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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [176r] (351/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. 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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Kingdom to proceed with their new arrangements, only to shift their ground
completely at the eleventh hour. His Majesty’s Legation was accordingly
instructed by the Government of India to return to the charge, but it proved
impossible to secure any modification of the attitude of the Iranian Government.
^ 91. Meanwhile, the Government of India had been reconsidering their
arrangements, and had decided that in future their doctor should reside at
Meshed, visiting Birjand, Zabul and Zahidan when necessary. Thus, when the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs repeated at the end of October that no licence could
be issued to a doctor resident at Zabul, it was felt that there was still some hope
of securing a licence valid for Meshed, and that there might even be no objection
to his seeing patients outside the consulate staffs at the other places on his
occasional visits there. But in view of the obscurity of the Iranian Government’s
attitude, His Majesty’s Minister felt that it was desirable that he should be
allowed some latitude to secure the best terms possible, and when the Government
of India agreed decided that the best policy was to endeavour to reach some
agreement by oral negotiation with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs which could
subsequently be confirmed in writing. The changed position was accordingly
explained to an official of the Ministry, and he was informed that an unrestricted
licence for Meshed was now what was chiefly desired. The doctor would, however,
* be visiting Birjand, Zabul and Zahidan as well, when necessity arose, and it was
hoped that during his visits there, he would be allowed such facilities as could be
agreed to, for outside practice. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs undertook to
get in touch with the Department of Health, and to see what could be arranged,
' but nothing further had been heard from them by the end of the year.
92. This was not, however, the only question that arose. In the middle of
October a note was received from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, stating that
it was understood that Dr. Fazal Haq, His Majesty’s vice-consul at Birjand,
was also pactising medicine. The note added that the Iranian Government had
repeatedly brought to the notice of His Majesty’s Legation their view that a
consular officer should not exercise a second profession, and they, therefore,
requested that Dr. Fazl Haq should be instructed to cease practising medicine
immediately. It was at once felt that, the principle having already been conceded
in the case of Zabul, it was impossible to resist at Birjand; but while the question
was still being considered whether it was preferable to terminate Dr. Fazal Haq’s
consular or medical functions he himself received on the 11th November a
peremptory order from the local Health Office couched in terms resembling a
military command rather than anything else, to close his dispensary forthwith,
failing which he would be prosecuted. Accordingly, when it was decided that it
would be useless for Dr. Fazal Haq to resume his practice for the reason that
no Iranian would henceforth be allowed by the police to visit his dispensary, and
that it would be better for him to remain on solely as vice-consul, it was decided
also that the discourtesy of the local officials could not be passed over in silence.
His Majesty’s Minister, therefore, informed the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
that, as they had not raised any objection to the position at Birjand when they
had taken up the question of Zabul a year before, it had been assumed that they
were prepared to make an exception in favour of Dr. Fazal Haq, who had acted
both as vice-consul and doctor for many years past. Nevertheless, the Government
of India now readily agreed to fall in with the Iranian Government’s wishes,
and Dr. Fazal Haq had accordingly been directed to cease practising medicine,
though it was presumed that he could still treat the consulate staff and British
subjects At the same time it was regretted that the Department of Health had
taken unilateral action to stop Dr. Fazal Haq’s practice before any reply had
been received from His Majesty’s Legation, and still more did the latter deplore
the tone in which the local Health Office had found it necessary to word their
communication to His Majesty’s vice-consul.
(4) Special Indian Relations.
(a) Indian Land Customs Regime.
93. The Government of India decided during the course of the year to
impose a limited customs regime, with effect from the 1st April, 1937, on all the
land frontiers of India. The Iranian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (320 folios)
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The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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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 321; 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 file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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