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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎6] (13/578)

The record is made up of 1 volume (289 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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VI
CONTENTS.
TREATIES, etc., No.
XVI.-
H. AFGHANISTAN— continued.
Page.
XVII.-
XVIII
XIX-
XX
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
-Agreement concluded by the Joint British and Afghan
Commissioners defining the Atghan-Baluch bound
ary from Domandi to the Persian border, dated
Ag^eme^eSte 1 ! 9 ^ the. Lowanas and tie Tarnhis
with regard to land in Tirwah . . ' ’
-Letter from the Earl of Kimberley to the Russian
Ambassador in London concluding an agreement
regard to the spheres of influence of Great Britain
and Russia on the Pamirs and the demarcation of
the boundary line by a Joint Con^i^ion composed
of British and Russian delegates, dated 11th Marcn
—Letter from M. de Staal, Russian Ambassador reply
ing to the foregoing, dated 11th March 189o .
-Agreement executed by the British and Afghan Com
missioners defining the Baluch-Afghan 0 J^ j :
westward from Chaman to the Persian bolder,
dated 13th May 1896 . • • • ' *
—Demarcation of the Sistan boundary from Koh-i-
Malik Siah to Siah Koh by Colonel McMahon,
dated 1st February 1905 . • •
—Treaty with Amir Habibulla Khan continuing the
Agreements which had existed between the British
Government and the late Amir, Abdur Rahman
Khan, dated 21st March 1905
-Sistan Water Award, dated 10th April 1905
—Treatv of peace between the British Government and
Afghanistan concluded at Rawalpindi on the 8th
August 1919 . • • • , - ‘ i Lx- '
Letter to the Chief Afghan Representative admitting
the independence of Afghanistan in her foreign re
lations, dated 8th August 1919 . •
Treaty between Great Britain and Afghanistan estab
lishing Friendly and Commercial relations, dated
22nd November 1921 •••••*
Schedule I annexed to the Treaty providing for a con
cession of territory to the Afghan Government in the
neighbourhood of Torkham • • • • •
Schedule II annexed to the Treaty providing tor
matters of detail connected with Legations and
Consulates • • - • . • • . 1 '
Letter from the British representative to the Afghan
Foreign Minister regarding the importation of arms
and munitions into Afghanistan through India .
Letter from the Afghan Foreign Minister to the
British representative on the same subject .
Letter from the Afghan Foreign Minister to the
British representative at Kabul regarding the ex
clusion of Russian Consulates and representatives
from the territories of Jalalabad, Ghazni and
Kandahar . . ■ • . • • • , •
Letter from the British representative to the Afghan
Foreign Minister declaring the goodwill of the
British Government towards all frontier tribes
-Anglo-Afghan Trade Convention, dated 5th June 1923
Rules for the exemption from Customs duty of goods
imported on behalf of the Government of
Afghanistan . . . . .
Exchange of Notes between the British Government
and the Afghan Minister in London reaffirming the
Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1921 and the Trade Con
vention of 1923, dated 6th May 1930 .
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The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, was revised in 1930 and published in 1933 by the Manager of Publications in Delhi, under the authority of the Government of India.

Part 1 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Persia and dating from between 12 April 1763 and 10 May 1929. The treaties refer to: trade agreements; foreign relations; prohibition and suppression of the slave trade; sovereignty and status of Persian regions; frontier negotiations; foreign concessions; telegraph lines. Part 2 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Afghanistan and dating from between 17 June 1809 and 6 May 1930. The treaties relate to: foreign relations; the establishment of boundaries and frontier negotiations; peace treaties; commercial relations; import of arms. A number of appendices follow part 2, which contain the text of treaties relating to both Persia and Afghanistan.

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1 volume (289 folios)
Arrangement

The volume is arranged into two parts covering Persia and Afghanistan respectively, as are the appendices at the end of the volume. Each part is divided into a number of chapters, identified by Roman numerals, and arranged chronologically, from the earliest treaties to the most recent. At the beginning of each part is a general introduction to the treaties and engagements that follow.

There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 4-8) which lists the geographical regions and treaties. The contents pages refers to the volume’s pagination system. There is a subject index, arranged alphabetically, at the end of the volume (ff 277-87) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.

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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).

Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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