!['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.' [‎151v] (307/386)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001491.0x000066/Mss Eur F111_534_0307.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎151v] (307/386)")
'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.' [151v] (307/386)
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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forthcoming programme; and I sent you a telegram on the 25th November
suggesting a form of words in which the comraunicition might be made to
His Majesty the Shah Sir A. Hardinge simultaneously wrote a long and
confidential letter of explanation to the Mushir-ed-Dowleh, explaining the point
of view of the British and Indian Governments. Before either of these
messages, however, had reached their destination, Mr. Grant Huff had acted
upon his instructions. There can, I think, be little doubt that His Majesty the
Shah must have resolved from that moment to express his dissatisfaction with
the Government of India by action directed against its head.
There remains to be considered what steps should be taken by His Majesty’s
Government. This is a matter in which I place myself entirely in your hands,
I have no anxiety to be either the author or the subject of a diplomatic incident.
It is also probably true that in the eyes of the Eastern world the indignity which
the Persian Government endeavoured to place upon me will have recoiled upon
them, because of my refusal to land upon their shores and to accept the hos
pitality proffered to me. It is even likely, as Sir A. Hardinge pointed out to me,
that the Persians may represent themselves as the injured parties, and myself
as having rudely refused the courtesies of His Majesty the Shah.
It will be for His Majesty’s Government to decide what value to attach to
these pleas. On the other side there will probably be quarters in which the
incident will be represented as a serious rebuff to His Majesty’s Government
and as a deliberate affront to the Government of India. The fact remains in
either case that the representative of the British Sovereign, travelling in cir
cumstances of peculiar state and importance, was so treated by the Persian
authorities under direct orders from their sovereign that he had no alternative
but to decline the slight that was attempted to be placed upon him. Before this
letter has reached you explanations will probably have been forthcoming from
the Persian Government which will have shown their view of the case. Unless
these supply an excuse which cannot at present be anticipated, His Majesty’s
Government will doubtless consider the propriety of demanding an ample
apology or compensation for conduct which was as discourteous as it was unsus
pected and unprovoked.
Enclosure to 16.
The following is a narrative of the events that led up to the incident at
Bushire :—
1. On October 2/th Sir A. Hardinge telegraphed to me the programme
that he was proposing to the Persian Government for my reception in Persian
Ports. At that time it was contemplated that the Ala-ed-Howleh (Governor-
General of Ears) should receive me not merely at Bushire, but also at Bunder
Abbas, the first place at which I was to touch on the Persian Coast. Accord
ing to this programme, the Governor-General was to receive me at the landing
place, to accompany me to the British Consulate, and to pay me the first
official visit there. I was to return his visit at his official residence and to
dine w ith him in the evening. This arrangement was at once accepted by
me, was submitted by Sir A. Hardinge to the Persian authorities, and was
similarly accepted by them. It was in accordance with the ordinary diplomatic
usage, under which the host pays the first visit to the guest, and under which
a foreign sovereign or his delegate frequently wakes the embassy, legation, or
residence of his local representative his official quaiters for the time being.
^ -A- few days later Sir A. Hardinge telegraphed that there was delay in
the Ala-ed-Dowleh’s arrangements, which would render it difficult for him to
reccne me at Burdcr Abbas, unless I altered the entire programme of my
tour, and took Bunder Abbas last instead of first. I was unable to do this,
since it would have dislocated the plans made at each baiting place in my
cruise, and would have prevented me from carrying out an installation ceremony
m Bajputana for which I had to he back in India at a given date. But in
the circumstances I willingly dispensed with the proposed reception by the
Ala-ed-Howleh at Bunder Abbas, wTiicli it was arranged should be discharged
on his behalf by the subordinate Governor of the Gulf Ports.
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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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