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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎6] (23/578)

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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PERSIA.
G
Napoleon, then at the height of his power, and made overtures for a
union of political interests with France.
In 1806 Napoleon sent Monsieur Taubert to conclude a commercial
treaty, afterwards ratified at Finkenstein. He was followed by General
Gardanne’s mission, the object of which was to secure an offensive and
defensive alliance.
The Shah bitterly resented the interpretation which the British
Government put upon the Treaty of 1801 and their refusal to give him
assistance against Russia, in consideration of which he had offered to
relinquish the French alliance. The proposals of the French were that
they should compel the Russians to restore the province wrested from
Persia, and furnish the Shah with military stores and officers to organize
his army on the European system; while the Shah on his part was to
declare immediate war on the English, to invade India by way of Afghan
istan, and to permit a French army to invade India through his
territories. These negotiations, frustrated by the peace concluded at
Tilsit between Napoleon and the Czar Alexander, had the effect of
rousing the British Government to efforts for the recovery of their lost
ascendancy at the Court of Tehran and the protection of their Indian
empire by binding the western frontier States in a chain of friendly
alliances. Missions were sent by the Indian Government to the Mirs
of Sind, Ranjit Singh, and the Court of Kabul, and Sir John Malcolm
was again accredited as Envoy to Persia. Unfortunately, without pre
vious concert with the Indian Government, and in ignorance of the
measures concerted by them, Sir Harford Jones was at the same time
deputed direct from England as Plenipotentiary on the part of the
Crown. This led to unseemly complications which had the effect of
rendering both governments ridiculous in the eyes of the Persians.
Sir John Malcolm was instructed, in the event of Sir Harford Jones
arriving at Bombay, on his way to Persia, before him, to proceed as
Envoy to Baghdad for the purpose of establishing an alliance with the
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the petty Chiefs in Arabia, leaving Sir Harford to conduct
the negotiations at Tehran; but the paramount importance of recovering
a footing in Persia was to overrule all other considerations, and Sir John
was to proceed on his mission to Persia without delay if he should find
himself the first in the field. Sir John arrived in Persia first, while the
Shah was still trusting to the liberal promises with which the French
amused him. Considering the dignity of the British Government
insulted by an attempt, which he attributed to the influence of the
Fiench embassy, to exclude him from the Royal presence and draw him
into negotiations with subordinate officials at Shiraz, Sir John concluded
that there was no hope of a friendly alliance. He therefore abruptly
quitted the country, proceeded to Calcutta and induced Lord Mint© to

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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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