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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎10] (27/578)

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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IQ PERSIA.
check the raiders, she notified the Russian Government that their help
was no longer required. A Russian squadron was nevertheless sent in
1842 to the Island of Ashurada, occupied by the Russians in 1838,
and a naval station was built there to overawe the Turkmans. In
1921 the Russians renounced their claim to this island under Article 3
of the Treaty* concluded with Persia in that year.
The reconquest of Afghanistan had always been a favourite dream
of the Qajar dynasty, who conceived that their rights of sovereignty over
it were as complete as in the days of the Safavian kings. The first use
which the Russians made of their ascendancy after the peace of 1828
was to encourage Fateh Ali Shah in his ambition for eastern conquests,
as an off-set for the cessions on his north-western frontier and as an
indirect means of establishing their own influence as far as the Indus.
Fateh Ali Shah projected two unsuccessful expeditions against
Afghanistan.
Muhammad Shah, ever a friend of Russia and an enemy to British
interests, revived the project and with a large force laid siege to Herat
in November 1837. He had been warned that any hostile movement
against Herat would be viewed with dissatisfaction by tlie British Gov
ernment. Confident, however, in the support of Russia, he rejected all
offers for the settlement of his disputes with Shall Kamran of Herat by
friendly mediation, and treated the British mission with such marked
discourtesy, that the Envoy lowered his flag and declared the alliance
with Persia at an end. To force the Shah to renounce his ambitious pro
jects, a demonstration was made in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. by the occupation
of the Island of Karak. This had the effect of forcing him to withdraw
his troops from Herat after a memorable siege of ten months, in which
all his efforts to take the city were defeated by the energy and ability of
Eldred Pottinger, a young English officer of artillery. On the with
drawal of the British armies from Afghanistan, Shah Kamran was
deposed and murdered by his minister, Yar Muhammad Khan, who in
words professed himself to be a dependent of the Shah of Persia, but
maintained himself in real independence.
In 1839 a Farman (No. XI) Avas procured from the Shah guaranteeing
protection to Mission servants. This had been rendered necessary by
the arrest and search of a Legation messenger travelling between Herat
and the Shah’s camp. This farman was supplemented by another
(No. XII) for the same purpose in the following year.
The unsatisfactory conditions of British trade in Persia AA^ere at last
remedied in 1841 by the conclusion of a Commercial Treaty (No. XIII)
which put the trade of Great Britain and Persia on most favoured nation
footing, and provided for the establishment of commercial agencies in
the two countries. In 1844 a Farman (No. XIV) prescribed the procedure
* Appendix No. XXV.

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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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