Extraterritoriality and nationality were crucial to the legal landscape of the Late Persianate world and relations between Iran and British India. Extraterritoriality not only protected British subjects from Persian prosecution but also afforded the British Empire the means to rule Indians in lands beyond the Raj. Iran’s opposition to extraterritoriality led to laws that expanded Iranian nationality to include many Indians living in Iran and the Iranian diaspora living in India—who often navigated these rules as it best suited their interests. These developments reveal the significance of imperialism and state building to the emergence of modern international law and the fate of the Persianate world.

治外法权和国籍对于晚期波斯世界的法律格局以及伊朗与英属印度之间的关系至关重要。治外法权不仅保护英国臣民免受波斯的起诉，而且还为大英帝国提供了统治英属印度以外土地上的印第安人的手段。伊朗反对治外法权导致制定了扩大伊朗国籍的法律，将许多居住在伊朗的印度人和居住在印度的伊朗侨民包括在内——他们经常按照最适合自己利益的方式来处理这些规则。这些发展揭示了帝国主义和国家建设对现代国际法的出现和波斯世界命运的重要性。