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'Russia, India and the Persian Gulf' [9v] (18/46)
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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14 The Western Frontiers of India.
adapted to all such cases, but is opposed to the interests
and aspirations of the military element, and to the tradi
tional theory that it is the duty of a British Government
to police all parts of the world in which, for any possible
or plausible reason, we can make any kind of colourable
claim to interfere. Sir Dennis could easily show that
frontier outbreaks were not confined to tracts under the
immediate supervision of Lahore, but he cordially approved
Lord Curzon’s plan of trying tribal militia, and said that if
it stands the test of times of trouble in a country like
Waziristan, it will do its inventor infinite credit. He
remarked, however, that the omission to recommend such
a scheme on the part of previous Lieutenant-Governors was
equally shared by the advisers of successive Viceroys at
Simla. Finally, after very clearly explaining how apparent
differences of opinion had arisen, he expressed his own wish to
repeat the instructions already sent ro India to avoid any new
responsibility not absolutely required by strategical neces
sities and the protection of the border, and to add a word
of warning lest an exaggerated view should prevail of our
obligations under the Durand Convention, and against
pushing too far the theory that the local authority should
be u given a free hand.” 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.
evidently
thought Lord Curzon’s own attitude in this respect so
satisfactory as to call for no admonition, and nothing indeed
could be clearer than his expressed views on the subject.
It is apparent, therefore, that a consensus of contempo
raneous opinion supported Lord Curzon’s scheme for
carrying out the policy of His Majesty’s Government.
In one of a series of able and interesting articles con
tributed to the Times in 1902, it was suggested that the
Viceroy in placing portions of the plain districts of the
Punjab under the new Chief Commissioner, as well as the
wilder frontier tribes, contemplated a reversion in the former
localities to a less complex and scientific kind of adminis
tration, and it was even hinted that the clock would be set
back in other quarters, if this experiment proved a success.
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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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- 1 volume (21 folios)
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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