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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.' [43r] (90/136)
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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resolutely enforced, if no attempt to evade or elude them on the part of others
he permitted, they represent in substance the policy for which the Government
of India, with an insistence that is justified by the magnitude of the stake, has
throughout contended. If any doubt as to their efficacy be permissible, it can
only be because of the difficulty of placing implicit reliance upon the
assurances of a feeble Oriental State, and because they appear to us to be
somewhat in advance of the less definite propositions that have found a place
in the earlier paragraphs of Your Lordship’s despatch. Por instance, when
Your Lordship speaks in paragraph 8 of the importance of safeguarding those
spheres of influence in Persia which are essential to India, we should have been
glad to know what, in Your Lordship’s judgment, they are. Our own views
on the matter were very clearly laid down in our despatch of last September;
but we have not been informed whether they are or are not concurred in by
Her Majesty’s Government. The successful defence, either of a sphere of
influence, or of the interests which have grown up inside it, would appear to
demand as a preliminary condition an explicit agreement as to the limits and
dimensions of the former, and as to the nature and obligations of the latter.
7. Entertaining as we do these opinions, we greatly regret the abandon
ment of the contemplated visit of His Majesty the Shah to England in the
past month; since we had hoped that advantage might be taken of his presence
to invest with the fullest definiteness and precision the nature of the policy
of Her Majesty’s Government with regard to Persia, and to Southern Persia
in particular; and since Tfe had relied much upon such a clear understanding
for the future protection of Indian interests in that part of the East. We trust
that an opportunity for making such a declaration may still present itself.
We have the honour to be,
My Loud,
k Your Lordship’s most obedient, humble servants,
[Signed)
CURZON OE KEDLESTON.
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E. H. H. COLLEN.
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A. C. TREYOR.
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T. RALEIGH.
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E. F.-G. LAW.
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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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- '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.'
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- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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