Abstract: This file contains documents that discuss various financial claims of the British Government of India and the Government of Iran against one another. Most of the claims were made between 1942 and 1948. The claims are the result of loss of either lives or property of Iranians living in India or British-Indian subjects living or working in Iran. However, the majority of the papers relate to a particular episode of violence against the Iranian community in Bombay during 1946, and include two letters from the Iranian Consul General in India and the Iranian Ambassador to the UK.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 70; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence and reports relating to the imprisonment of Heshmat-ul-Mulk, deputy governor of Seistan and Kain, in Persia. In particular, the file relates to damages incurred during raids by Baluchi armed men on British interests in and around Birjand for which the British government held the governor of the province responsible. The bulk of the file consists of exchanges between Sir Walter Beaupre Townley, the British special envoy to the Court of Persia, and Major Francis Beville Prideaux, the British Consul for Sistan and Kain.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 239; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.