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'PRINCIPAL DESPATCHES AND CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO PERSIA CONNECTED WITH THE SUMMARY OF EVENTS AND MEASURES OF VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDDLESTON IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. JANUARY 1899 TO NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV-PART IV. PERSIA.' [‎19r] (42/136)

The record is made up of 1 volume (64 folios). It was created in 1908. 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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No. 175 of 1899.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
External.
To
The Eight Hon’ble LOED GEOEGE E. HAMILTON,
Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India,
Simla, the 21st September 1899.
My Lord,
We desire to address Your Lordship and, through Your Lordship,
Her Majesty’s Government on the subject of the relations of Great Britain
with Persia. We might find an adequate reason for so doing in the fact that
Your Lordship in your despatch of June 30th, 1899, enclosing a copy of a
recent despatch to the Eoreign Office from Sir M. Hnrand, Her Majesty’s
Minister at Tehran, concerning the maintenance of our influence in Persia,
has directly invited an expression of the views of the Government of India
upon this matter; and, while calling our attention to the desirability of improv
ing the Political and Consular Service in that country, has at the same time
stated your desire to he made acquainted with our opinions upon the remaining
questions discussed by Sir M. Durand. But, in any case, we should have felt
it our duty at an early date to address Your Lordship on the subject. Although
the relations of Great Britain with Persia have for a period of exactly a century
occupied a large, and perhaps at times a disproportionate, space upon the field
of international diplomacy ; although during that time Great Britain has twice
broken off diplomatic relations and has once been at war with Persia in
vindication of British interests in or upon the borders of that country; and,
although large sums of money have been throughout the present century and
are still annually expended in the maintenance of those interests, both by Her
Majesty’s Government and by the Government of India, we have not been
able to discover in our records any clear definition of the principles upon which
our policy towards the Persian kingdom is based, of the objects which it should
keep in view, or of the scope and limits of the respective shares of responsibility,
political and financial, which should be assumed by the two partners, viz., Her
Majesty’s Government and the Government of India, who are jointly concerned
in the defence of Anglo-Indian interests in tluT dominions of the Shah.
2. We feel that there is at the present time the greater need for such a
discussion, because of the facts, which must be patent to all, that the Persian
Government appears well nigh to have exhausted all power of recuperation or
reform; and that the country, but feebly held together by any tie either of race,
religion, or loyalty, is only saved from a fate to which it must otherwise have
long ago succumbed, partly by a superficial vitality not infrequently seen
in political organisms, especially in the East, even when in an advanced stage
of decay, still more by the rival ambitions of the two great European Powers
between whom its territories are placed, and who are the real arbiters of its

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Published by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta.

The volume consists of a draft Part IV to the Summary of the Principal Events and Measures of the Viceroyalty of His Excellency Lord Curzon of Keddleston, 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 The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Parts I-III), published by GC [Government Central] Press, Simla, 1907 [Mss Eur F111/531-534].

The volume includes a letter from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to Lord Curzon, dated 27 August 1908, stating that an examination of their records had shown that these were the essential despatches, and hoping that the volume would answer Lord Curzon's purpose.

The despatches and correspondence cover the period 1899-1905, and include correspondence from the Secretary of State for India, and HBM's Minister at Tehran, and cover the question of the appointment of an additional consular officer in Persia, 1899 (with map); relations between Britain and Persia; the protection of British interests in Persia; British policy on Persia; the political and financial situation in Persia; and the threat of Russian encroachment.

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1 volume (64 folios)
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The despatches and correspondence are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. There is a list of contents on folio 6, giving details of name and date of paper, subject, and page number.

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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 66; 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 volume also contains an original manuscript pagination sequence.

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