IOR/L/PS/12/3650

The file concerns the reorganization of consular establishments in Persia.

The file covers:

• Foreign Office proposals to amalgamate Isfahan and Shiraz Consulates and to raise status of Consular Officer at Ahwaz to Consul-General, 1933
• acquisition of buildings for the Ahwaz Consulate, 1933
• proposal to lease consular properties at Isfahan and Hamadan, 1933
• proposed sale of consular property at Isfahan and disposal of the furniture therein 1934-35
• summer recess of the Political Resident and his staff at the Consular House at Shiraz, 1934-35. A sketch of the Consular House is on f 219
• proposed sale of consular property at Hamadan, 1935
• Foreign Office proposal that HM Consul at Shiraz should rent accommodation at Isfahan during his visits on duty, 1936
• proposed transfer of the Shiraz Residency buildings from the Government of India to HM Government, 1936
• lease of property in Shiraz for use as summer headquarters for Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, 1937-43
• Consular Office and Rest House at Isfahan, includes inventory of furniture (ff 33-44), 1936-39.

The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the British Legation at Tehran, the British Consulate at Isfahan, the British Consulate at Ahwaz, the British Consulate at Shiraz, the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Government of India, the HM Office of Works, and the Secretary of State for India.