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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.' [‎84v] (173/386)

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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shah. Major Burton had drawn attention to the desire expressed by the
Bakhtiari # chiefs for the services of an English Doctor. They had been consi
dering the advisability of employing one from the Church Missionary Society
at Ispahan. Politically this step was considered undesirable and on Sir
A. Hardinge proposing that a medical officer should be attached to the
Consulate, with permission to undertake private practice among the Bakhtiari
Khans, the Government of India readily agreed and in July 1901, deputed a
Medical Officer from the Indian establishment as Consular Surgeon for
Arabistan and Kermanskah whose duties would include travelling in Bakhtiari
land.
11. The establishment of additional consulates within the jurisdiction of
Appointment of a 2nd Assistant to ^ ie Consul-General at Bushire consider-
the Poiitical Resident in the Persian ably augmented the duties of that officer
U ' . and in February 1905, the necessity for
a 2nd Assistant to the Resident was clearly shown. Lieutenant Gabriel’s
retention as a probationer was first sanctioned temporarily pending permanent
arrangements, which were settled in connection with the reorganisation of the
Political Department.
12. On the pretext that plague had appeared at Herat and Kandahar, a
Appointment of a British Consular line of quarantine stations was organised
Officer at Turbat-i-Haidarx. in 1897 by the Russian Government from
larsniz on the edge of the desert south-west of Meshed to Karez on the Afghan
frontier. The quarantine was enforced by Russian officers and doctors and
by Russian and Persian Cossacks, the latter paid through their Russian officers.
The main object of this move was to menace the trade route and harass Afghan
traders so as to compel them to trade direct with Russia instead of with Persia
Frequent complaints against the presence of this cordon on Persian soil
were made by the Persian Government and when in 1903, the Russian Govern
ment declined to withdraw it, His Majesty’s Government in defence of Britisli
interests decided in August 1903 to post a Consul at Turbat-i-Haidari to be
accompanied by an officer of the Indian Medical Service and an escort of 25
sowars, with a native officer. The British Consul assumed charge in January
13. Continued Russian activity in Khorasan and the expansion of British
t1\f p0 h n H ment of a Militar y Attach! interests in that province disclosed the fact
f ... . . tl 13 14 15 '*' th® Consul-General at Meshed was
too fully occupied by his political and consular avocations to allow of his devoting
the time necessary for collecting and reporting intelligence—an important part
of his duties—regarding Russian Military movements in Central Asia. The im
portance ot Meshed as a centre from which to gain early intelligence of Russian
movements and preparations had always been recognised by the Military authori
ties who were convinced of the growing importance of organising and developing
on sound hnes their system of intelligence. A Military Officer had already
)een deputed to Northern Khorasan on a roving commission and it was now
considered desirable to regularise his position. The Government of India
decided in 1901 to suppiement the Meshed establishment by his appointment
s Military Attache to the Consulate General at Meshed—a proposal which
was strongly supported by Sir A. Hardinge. 1 ^
14. In March 1905 a Native British Consular Agent was stationed at
A^enraTSih^Mkuk s?ah tiBh Con8ular Koll -i-Malik Siah to afford assistance and
jam" ^ protection to traders using the Nushki
trade route-lov details vide Chapter XV, paragraph 13, page 97.
15. Finally, it was proposed, in 1905, that an Indian Officer should be
appointment of an officer deputed to work in the British Legation
the Tehran a Legation. al Department to itself. This proposal of 1905 was a coun-
i at i terpart of one previously made by the
1889 in nn r r r s or ^ 1 ^ r ? 0 k and Lytton which eventually resulted in
Oriental hmn S»VVomte& to be both Military Attach^ and
semi-nolitieal iVV ‘ W1 1 arti 1 ie ^ un derstanding that his duties were to be
the former filled V| U ln fr ^ ^° St; ^ vas ^ r0 ^ eu U P ’ nt0 two appointments,
y an o beer from the Indian Army, the latter by His Majesty’s

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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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1 volume (189 folios)
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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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