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IOR/L/PS/10/56
- Record Id:
- 040-000544783
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000365.0x00038d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100045050838.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/56
- Title:
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File 2764/1904 Pt 1 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1904-07.'
- Scope & Content:
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1903-1907.
The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military considerations impinging on British strategy for the international negotiations over the development of a railway to Baghdad in particular as formulated in the Baghdad Railway Convention (1903) and the financial viability of the railway. The terms of possible British, French, Russian, Ottoman and German participation are debated including the Baghdad Railway Convention. Also discussed are the terms of loans made to the Persian Government and the desirability of ensuring that any extension from Baghdad to a terminus on the shores of the Gulf was controlled by Britain.
Further discussion surrounds the motivations and strategies of British competitors in the area. The volume features a copy (ff 385-396) of the text of the 'Baghdad Railway: Board of Trade Memorandum', a number of newspaper cuttings from German and British media, as well as seven maps.
The principal correspondents in the volume include the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne; Sir Edward Grey), His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople (Sir Nicholas O'Connor), the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Charles Hardinge, Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson), the Under-Secretary of State for India (Earl Percy, Sir Arthur Godley), the Viceroy of India (Lord Curzon of Kedleston), the Secretary to the Political and Secret Department of the India Office (Sir Richmond Richie) and the London Manager of the Imperial Bank of Persia (George Newell).
Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000544783 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/56 : File 2764/1904 Pt 1 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1904-07.' - Contains:
- IOR/W/L/PS/10/56 (i) : PERSIAN GULF: Sketch of APPROACHES TO KUWAIT HARBOUR AND SHATT AL ARAB
IOR/W/L/PS/10/56 (ii) : SOUTH-EAST TURKEY IN ASIA. BUSRA
IOR/L/PS/10/56, f 81 : SKETCH MAP TO SHEW RAILWAYS IN ASIA MINOR
IOR/L/PS/10/56, f 226 : LE CHEMIN DE FER DE BAGDAD
IOR/L/PS/10/56, f 297 : LE CHEMIN DE FER DE BAGDAD
IOR/L/PS/10/56, f 334 : Sketch map of the mouth of the Shatt El Arab
IOR/L/PS/10/56, f 335 : Koweit Harbour
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/10/56 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0056]/040-000544783
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (405 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000365.0x00038d
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1903
- End Date:
- 1907
- Date Range:
- 1903-1907
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 405; 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.
- Former External References:
- P 2764/1904 Pt 1
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2764 (Bagdad Railway) consists of five volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/56-60. The volumes are divided into five parts with each part comprising one volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)