Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871, concerning the protection of Christians in Persia, following the execution of a Muslim at Tabreez (Tabriz) for the murder of an Armenian Christian. British officials intervened following alleged attempts by local o...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871. The Despatch concerns a prohibition by the Persian Government on the export and storage of grain and provisions, as a result of a grain shortage. The correspondence shows that British officials felt that the measur...
Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The letter encloses one from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 17 July 1871, describing the history of the Persian Government's interest in railway construction, and stating the need for such...
Persian Government Restriction on the Storing of Grain and Provisions Imported by Foreign Merchants
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The papers cover: British concerns that the restriction amounted to a ban on imports at a time when Persia was being depopulated by famine; report by William John Dickson, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation...