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'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [82r] (168/386)
The record is made up of 1 volume (189 folios). It was created in 1907. 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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25. The fostering of Indian trade required attention. Political condi
tions in Eastern and Southern Persia where the Government of India were
mainlv interested were favourable for the despatch of a Commission to study the
possibilities of developing existing trade, the requirements of the inhabitants
and the methods of doing business, and when m April 1903, Major Syices, His
Maiesty’s Consul, Kerman, proposed the despatch of a Commission to examine
the Kerman province, Eastern Persia and Seistan, the Government of India
favoured the proposal.
26. Certain of the Chambers of Commerce were addressed in the matter,
and their co-operation was invited, Government undertaking to grant to their
delegates a sum to be agreed upon as representing actual travelling expenses,
including the cost of locomotion for the individual and a reasonable amount
of luggage and camp equipage, and of escort. In response, the Bomiay
° ^ Chamber of Commerce and the Mill-
Mr. Gieadowe-Newcomen. owners’ Association jointly nominated two
Parsi gentlemen, Mr. D. M. Kapadia and It. P. Massani, as their delegates
whilst the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, Cawnpore, the Bengal
Chamber, and the Indian Tea Cess Committee, proposed to depute Mr.
Gieadowe-Newcomen of the firm of Messrs. Cooper, Allen & Co., with Mr.
Luff man as an assistant delegate and Mr. Ryan as Secretary.
27. Subsequently, however, the Bombay Chamber explained that they were
authorised to pay only the salaries of their nominees for the period they would be
absent from India and the cost of the samples to he collected; and that, unless all
other expenditure could he guaranteed, and all catering arrangements could be
undertaken by the Government of India, and unless the Mission were presided
over by a responsible Government official, they would be obliged, with regret, to
withdraw from the undertaking. In reply, the Government of India explained
that they were prepared to agree to pay actual travelling expenses to and from
Persia, to provide transport lor the journey in Persia, and to allow any ieason-
ably liberal scale of outfit, including tents, camp furniture, and horses, but tnat
they were unable to undertake the responsibility of catering for the individual
members or to appoint an official President to what had throughout been
intended to be a purely Commercial Mission. The Bombay delegates vere
consequently withdrawn.
28 The Mission, consisting of Mr. Gieadowe-Newcomen and his staff, leit
Bombay for Bunder Ahhas on the 13th October 1904; they were met On landing,
and accompanied throughout, by a Native Consular Agent of the Government
of India and a Hospital Assistant, with a small escort of Indian cavalry, ihc
Persian Government also showed their sympathy with the objects of the
Mission by deputing Colonel Muhammad Reza Mamur Khan and an escort
of Persian soldiery whilst in Persian territory. Major 8ykes, His Britannic
Majesty’s Consul at Kerman, also travelled with the delegates during a portion
of the tour which was expected to last about six months.
ii9. Prom Bunder Abbas where the Mission landed in October 1994 it was
intended that the party should strike
Itinerary of the Mission. noithwards to Saidahad in Sirjan, thence
to Bahramabad in Rafsinjan, the chief centre of the cotton trade in the
province and a place of considerable importance, and from thence to Kerman.
Prom Kerman the Mission was to proceed to Bam and Narmashir, an important
centre on the Bunder Abbas-Seistan trade route, and thence, taking the route
of the Gishu Pass, to the fertile valley of the Bampur River. The return
journey was to be via Magas, Kuhak, and the Kej valley to Gwadur or Pasm.
30. This intierary was subsequently altered, as later enquiries showed that
it would be commercially more useful tor
Eecommendations of the Mission. re ^ urn journey to be performed vid
Yezd. Shiraz and Bush ire, which would afford the Mission an opportunity to
compare trade conditions and communications with those depen ling on Bunder
Abbas The Mission returned to India on the 27th May 1905. The only contre
temps occurred at Mehrabad on the Yezd-Shiraz road in March 190o. Aggres
sions and robberies were of daily occurrence in the district owing to a loud
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Printed at the GC [Government Central] Press, Simla.
The volume is divided into three parts: Part I (folios 5-47) containing an introduction; Part II (folios 48-125) containing a detailed account; and Part III (folios 126-188) containing despatches and correspondence connected with Part I Chapter IV ('The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', folios 28-47).
Part I gives an overview of policy and events in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region during Curzon's period as Viceroy [1899-1905], with sections on British policy in Persia; the maintenance and extension of British interests; Seistan [Sīstān]; and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Part II contains more detailed accounts of selected topics, including sections on British policy in Persia, customs and finance, quarantine, administration, communications, and British and Russian activity in Seistan. The despatches and correspondence in Part III include correspondence from the Government of India in the Foreign Department, the Secretary of State for India, and the Viceroy; addresses and speeches by Curzon; and notes of interviews between Curzon and local rulers.
Mss Eur F111/531-534 consist of four identical printed and bound volumes. However, the four volumes each show a small number of different manuscript annotations and corrections.
This volume contains manuscript additions on folios 8, 11-12, 14, 42 (a sixteen word note concerning the use by the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] of a distinctive colour [flag] for Kuwait shipping), and 62-66.
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The volume contains a list of Parts I-III on folio 4; a table of contents of Part I on folio 6; a table of contents of Part II on folio 49; and a table of contents of Part III on folios 127-129, which gives a reference to the paragraph of Part I Chapter IV that the despatch or correspondence is intended to illustrate.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 191; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.'
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- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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