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The record is made up of 1 file (388 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1899-4 Apr 1904. 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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Mr. Castaigne asked me to ask Major Benn to supply Mr. Molitor with any
Baluch sowars he should want for the Customs Department, which l have asked
Major Benn to do.
Mr. Foley from the Indian Tea Association and Mr. Ouseley from Dehra
Dun are both here studying the prospects of introducing more Indian tea into
Persia, and even forcing it by this route into Russia.
They will send in full reports, but their opinion I may say is that with cer
tain alterations, and certain arrangements the tea prospects are good. They con
sider that all the tea planters in India should form themselves into a Trust, on the
American principle, and command the tea supply for Persia. The Agents of the
Trust should be at Quetta, and Persian dealers should eventually he forced to
come there for their tea.
They notice that at present the Persian will not give large orders direct on
India, having no knowledge of the country, and no confidence; that tea must in
the first place be brought to Persia and sold to the Persian that a peculiar tea
known as white tipped tea is the tea which is most popular in Persia, this tea
I am informed is very simple to make.
This white tipped tea has not been made much in India, because the London
market makes no demand for it, requiring only strong teas. The tea for Persia
coming from Java.
As regards the Russian market Mr. Foley informs me that it would be neces
sary to go back to Chinese methods of hiring, and even Chinese leaf of tea to
suit Russian tastes is to be produced.
Mr. Ouseley who brings with him Indian tea grown from the Chinese plant
sees no difficulty in again reverting to the Chinese method of Hiring for the
Russian market, Mr. Foley considers that with the full flavoured teas of Assam
so suitable for the London market, there would be some difficulty in removing
what the Russians consider the harshness of the Indian tea.
I have received the following information regarding duties, etc., from His
Britannic Majesty’s Consul at Batoum, and His Britannic Majesty’s Vice-Consul,
Tehran.
Black tea of every description (the transit from Batoum to Central Asia was
formerly prohibited) is now allowed to pass through Batoum, Baku and Krasno-
vodsk on payment of a duty of Roubles 31—co.—50 per pood in Russian cur
rency.
Green teas are allowed to pass in transit through Batoum on the old scale,
viz., 1st quality, *.<?., Lunka and Halmuri Roubles 14-40 per pood. Medium teas
Tzian-Te on Akuiruk Roubles io‘20 per pood. For lower quality, t.^., Navatsgur
and Patiq Roubles 6 per pood.
These duties can only be paid at the Custom Houses of Askhabad, Bokhara
or Kokand, not at Batoum or Baku.
Average transport cost of 100 mans Tabrizi—
Krans.
From Bushire to Tehran about ... ... 250
„ Baku to Tehran „ ... ... I 3 2
,, Trebizonde to Tehran about ... ... 425
Transit duties through Turkey for Persia on merchandise, one per cent, full
duties charged on merchandise through Caucasus whether in transit or not.
Duties into Russian territory whether Asiatic or European, i.e. t if by Persia
and Askhabad are the same as those given by the Consul at Batoum for
Batoum.
Notb.— 3 $ krans = one rupee,
One Tabriz! man = 6} lbs. i Russian pood=36 lbs. (English).
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The file contains papers relating to Seistan [Sistan] and Persia [Iran].
The file includes printed copies of despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorasan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, with enclosed despatches from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Marquis of Salisbury). Skyes’s despatches regard matters including: Seistan; trade routes into South-East Persia; the boundary between Persia and Afghanistan, in relation to the River Helmund [Helmand] changing its course (in despatch No. 5, which includes four sketch maps, folios 12, 13, 14 and 15); Sykes’s journey to Birjand (in despatch No. 7, which includes a sketch map on folio 20); the ruling family of Kain, which also governed Seistan, Tabbas and Tun; Sykes’s journey from Seistan to Kerman [Kirman] (in despatch No. 11, which includes a sketch map); and the direct Kerman-Quetta caravan trade that Sykes was trying to establish.
The file also includes copies of the following papers:
- A despatch from Temple to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing a letter from Temple to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (HM Minister, Tehran), with copies of enclosures, regarding the establishment of a Seistan and Kain consulate
- A letter from Charles Edward Pitman, Director General of Telegraphs, to the Secretary to the Government of India Public Works Department, enclosing a copy of a ‘Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier’ by H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department, which includes six photographs of views along the route [Mss Eur F111/352, f 52; Mss Eur F111/352, f 53; Mss Eur F111/352, f 54; Mss Eur F111/352, f 55; Mss Eur F111/352, f 56; and Mss Eur F111/352, f 57], and a map showing the proposed route of the telegraph line [Mss Eur F111/352, f 59]
- Letters from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing copies of the diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai, for the weeks ending 16 February, 28 February, and 8 March 1900
- Diary No. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Major-General George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, HM Consul for Seistan (Diary No. 6 includes a sketch map, folio 86)
- A copy of a ‘Report on Reconnaissances Made while Attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission’ by W A Johns, Deputy Consulting Engineer for Railways, Bombay
- A copy of the report ‘Notes on Persian Seistan’, compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, and issued by the Government of India Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General’s Department
- Two copies of map signed by Plunkett titled ‘Persian Seistan-Cultivated Area’ [Mss Eur F111/352, f 270]
- A booklet entitled ‘Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman.’
- Printed copies of letters from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), relating to the maintenance of British interests in Persia, dated 4 September 1899 and 7 November 1901 (the former with an enclosure of a minute by the Viceroy on Seistan).
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- 1 file (388 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 390; 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 301A
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- 'Seistan'
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- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 58r:58v, 60r:112r, 113r:125v, 147r:218r, 218r, 219r:269v, 271r:301v, 301Ar, 301Av, 302r:388v, 389v:390r, 389r, back
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