Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’

Title:

Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’

Contributor:

Iran (author)
Journal de Téhéran (author)
Le Messager de Tehran (author)
Foreign Office (correspondent)
British Legation, Tehran (correspondent)
Government of Iran, Pahlavi dynasty (author)

Date:

1930/1937

Description:

Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department) relating to Persia [Iran]. The original correspondence was exchanged between British representatives in Persia (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran), the Foreign Office, and the India Office. The correspondence concerns: the announcement by the Persian Government of laws, decrees, regulations, budgets, and other governmental communiqués, the texts of which were usually published in Persian newspapers (including Le Journal de Tehran, Shafaq-e-Surkh, Le Messenger de Teheranand Iran); reports on provincial affairs in Persia, chiefly in the form of reports submitted by British Consuls; Persia’s foreign relations, particularly those with Soviet Russia [Soviet Union, USSR]; correspondence dated 1929 and 1930 reporting on events in northern Persia (Azerbaijan and Khorasan) where large numbers of Russian refugees settled in the wake of the October Revolution; copies of diplomatic exchanges between the British Legation in Tehran and the Persian Government, the latter represented by figures including the Persian Prime Minister Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Feroughi, the Minister of the Court of Iran Abdolhossein Teymourtash, and Hassan Ali Ghaffari of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the activities of the Shah, with a particular focus on his modernisation policies that were implemented across Persia during the 1930s.A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Persian Government laws, Persian newspaper articles, and correspondence from Persian politicians. The file also includes a memorandum on the Persian renderings of ‘imperial’ that contains Persian text (ff 305-306).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.1 volume (583 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 579; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English
French
Persian

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Modernization
Diplomacy
Reports
Legislation
Law

Extent:

1 volume (583 folios)

Rights:

Unknown
Public Domain
Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Creative Commons Attribution Licence
Open Government Licence
Copyright or data protection restrictions

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0003e4_ar
81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0003e4_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3442

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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