File 469/1917 Pt 1 'Persia: Bakhtiari affairs'

Title:

File 469/1917 Pt 1 'Persia: Bakhtiari affairs'

Date:

1915/1920

Description:

Abstract: The file contains papers, mainly correspondence and India Office minute papers, mostly relating to the situation in the Bakhtiari [Baḵtīārī] territory in Persia [Iran], during the First World War. It includes papers concerning British negotiations with the Bakhtiari khans, and the agreement of February 1917 signed by Charles Murray Marling, HM Minister to Iran, and the principal Bakhtiari khans.The file also includes papers which relate to relations between the Bakhtiaris and the Russians in Persia, and the payment of £2,500 made to the Bakhtiari khans in December 1915 by Dr Young of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in connection with the agreement concluded by Young with the Bakhtiari Sardars.The main correspondents include: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Chief Political Officer, Basra (Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; HM Minister, Tehran; HM Consul, Kerman; HM Consul, Sistan and Kain; and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 260; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

First World War (1914-1918)

Geographic region:

Bakhtiari
Persia

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000223_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000223_en
IOR/L/PS/10/652
IOR/L/PS/10/652

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