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'Russia, India and the Persian Gulf' [15v] (30/46)
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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26 The Western Frontiers of India.
It is with the greatest satisfaction that all friends of India
see the burdens of the poor lightened in the new Budget,
but further remissions may yet be expected if the seasons
prove propitious. On the other hand, the condition of the
Russian peasantry is such that it may well happen that
Russia will in the future be unable to pursue her present
foreign policy, and the Czar’s manifesto is a significant
sign of the times. In order to build new, which swallow
up the profits of the older, railways the people are over
taxed. Agriculture, the great Russian, as it is the great
Indian, interest, has been sacrificed to artificial bounties,
state monopolies, and high protective duties, whereby new
industries have been forced, which are perishing for want
of a home market. There has been something very like a
general industrial collapse, and the shipping trade in South
Russia is said to be in a very bad way in consequence of
overprotection of railways. Scarcity exists in one province
or another almost as often as in our Indian Empire. As
Sir T. Holdich says, Russia is far from ready to proceed
with her
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
programme, and a railway across
Persia is still a long way off. None the less, a steel thread
as far as Seistan would greatly add to our embarrassments,
and the Askabad-Meshed line could apparently, without
any great difficulty, and without prohibitive expense, be
extended so far.
Seventhly, that our position in the East Indies, including
the Gulf, requires strengthening in ships, and by the pro
vision of a repairing yard for the navy at some point on
the Indian coast, preferably Madras, the future centre of
trade with the East and South, Burmah, the Straits, Java,
China, Japan and Australasia. The importance of this city
and seaport has much increased now that the East Coast
Railway has been completed, extensions are contemplated
of all the local lines, and new routes to the north through
the Central Provinces, and, above all, the Anatolian-
Baghdad connection is sanctioned, the natural continuation
of which will be from Bombay to Madras, and onwards to
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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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