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'1902. THE LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.' [145r] (300/412)
The record is made up of 1 volume (202 folios). It was created in 1903?. 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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N0, 270 ^ Viceroy to Secretary of State
Telegram, 12th June 1902, 6-30 p. m. (Despd. from Foreign Dept)
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to stop manufacture of sold present whicti 6 messa ° e to SultaQ until too late
despatched ? Horses can l^ till later date 80110 °" ^ ^ ^ he
sUnds in different position from Indian Chiefs, and /^Sn^lctpS
No. 271.]
Viceroy to Secretary of State.
P * Telegram, 12 th June 1902, 6-30 p. m.
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the release of British soldiers on 26th June. As it is impossible to discrimf
nate between British and Native soldiers, will you kfndly move the War
Office to rescind above orders as regards India by telegram ? ^
No ' 272 ’] Viceroy to Secretary of State.
Telegram, 13th June 1902. (Despd. from Mily. Dept.)
of thin will^ia reported later ? 116 ^ ^ ^ t0 Berbera ‘ Estimate
No ' Viceroy to Secretary of State.
Telegram, 13th June 1902. (Despd. from Foreign Dept.)
Your Lordship’s telegram of 9th J une has not relieved our anxieties,
ome Government appears to us to have assumed a line where no line existed
out only the limits of a survey, to have treated latter as though it supplied
a line and, because surveyors do not shade in valleys, to be prepared to admit
lurKish aggression in unshaded valley between shaded hills. Your Lordship
describes this as a continuous line. We submit that there is no continuity
in a, line which, though purporting to rest upon shaded mountains, deliberately
ips
The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47.
the shaded range at Jebel Jihaf, in order to hand over valley on its eastern
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This volume comprises printed copies of telegraphic correspondence, dated 1 January-31 December 1902, of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, with Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India.
The beginning of the volume contains a detailed index of names, places and subjects (ff 4-15). This is followed by telegrams from the Secretary of State for India to Lord Curzon, numbered 1-588 (ff 18-97) and telegrams from Lord Curzon to the Secretary of State for India, numbered 1-584 (ff 99-198).
A wide variety of subjects are covered, including matters relating to:
- The Aden Protectorate, notably the delimitation of the Aden boundary and relations with Turkey [Ottoman Empire]
- Afghanistan, including the Amir [Amīr Ḥabībullāh Khān] and Russian relations with Afghanistan
- The Army in India
- Berar [also known as the Hyderabad Assigned Districts], particularly relations with the Nizam of Hyderabad [Asaf Jah VI]
- Military operations of the Boer War 1899-1902
- Boer prisoners of war in India
- China, including the evacuation of British troops from Shanghai
- A ceremony to mark the Coronation of King Edward VII (as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India) including the Delhi Coronation Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
- The famine in India
- Financial and administrative matters
- Recommendations and awards of Honours of the United Kingdom to the British Indian Army and Government and to indigenous Indian rulers and dignitaries, including Coronation Honours
- The Koweit [Kuwait] Protectorate, including relations with Turkey
- British policy in Persia [Iran]
- The establishment of a Police Commission in India
- Construction and extension of railways in British India
- British relations with Russia notably in connection with India, Persia, Afghanistan, China and Tibet
- Military operations in the Somaliland Protectorate [the Republic of Somaliland]
- British policy in Tibet.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (202 folios)
- Arrangement
The telegrams are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of each of the two sections of the volume, which are divided by a folio of blue card. Each telegram is numbered, and the index on folios 4-15 gives the numbers of the telegrams which correspond to each name, place or subject listed in the index.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 198; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Pagination: the volume also contains two original printed pagination sequences.
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- '1902. THE LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:78v, 79v:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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