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'Russia, India and the Persian Gulf' [6r] (11/46)
The record is made up of 1 volume (21 folios). It was created in 1903. 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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The Western Frontiers of India.
7
Government if we are to retain our commercial predominance
in the northern shores of the Gulf, which, in fact, the Shah
owes to ourselves, for it is our might which gave reality to
his previously hardly existing sovereignty over the chiefly
Arab tribes which inhabit the lowlands between the moun
tains and the northern shore.
To return to the
North-West Frontier
Region of British India bordering Afghanistan.
proper, a great
deal has been written in the last two or three years regarding
the relations of the Punjab Government with the frontier
tribes and with the Government of India, and the Viceroy’s
action in creating a new frontier Province out of the tribal
hill tracts and the ordinary plains across the Indus, but it is
evident from a perusal of the Blue Book that there is a
most unusual consensus of opinion to the effect that such a
step as Lord Curzon has taken is necessary, and that its
necessity has long since been recognised. Sir Mackworth
Young, the Lieutenant-Governor of the day, pointed out
—as also did Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, an ex- Lieutenant-
Governor—that when the Lahore Administration appeared
to differ with the Government of India, the fact was that
the former simply represented the difficulties and risks
inherent in some forward movement, with which it was
the more impressed on account of their closer proximity.
True, Sir M. Young disapproved, while Sir D. Fitzpatrick
approved, the creation of a separate administration formed
out of the frontier districts and tribal tracts, but Sir M.
Young also agreed that, if the elimination of the Punjab
Government was desired, it could only be brought about in
the manner adopted. Due weight should be attached to
his statement that “ if the Punjab Government has been a
drag on the forward school of frontier politicians, the most
strenuous advocates of which will be found in military ranks,
the elimination of its counsels will not strengthen the position
of the Government of India.” But there is no fear that the
present Viceroy will be led away by the military forward:
school, to which he has shown the utmost unwillingness to
lend an ear, and it may well be that in the future the fact
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An article on the western frontiers of the Indian Empire by Sir John David Rees. The article deals with the threat posed by Russia from northern Persia and Afghanistan and discusses the measures that should be taken to defend and strengthen the British Empire in India.
At the front of the volume (folio 2) is a short foreword note signed by J D R, 31 March 1903.
At the rear of the volume (folios 17-22) is the record of a meeting of the East India Association that took place at the Westminster Palace Hotel, 23 March 1903, and at which the article was delivered as a lecture.
The article was published by Harrison & Sons, at 59 Pall Mall, London, 1903. It was also published as an article in the Asiatic Quarterly Review, for April 1903.
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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 23; 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.
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- Mss Eur F111/380
- Title
- 'Russia, India and the Persian Gulf'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:22v, back-i, back
- Author
- Rees, Sir John David
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- Public Domain