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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎23] (40/578)

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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PEltSlA —foreign Concessions.
.JtK
L oreign Concessions in Persia .—-The first important concession was
that for the Caspian Sea fisheries, first granted about 1867 to M.
Lianozon, a llussian subject. J iie concession was frequently renewed,
until the I ersian (Tovernnient cancelled it in 1919 on the ground of non
payment of royalties during the latter part of the Great War. These
fisheries were mentioned in the Perso-Kiissian Treaty of 1921, and formed
the subject of negotiation during 1924 and 1925. The Russian Govern
ment contended that, under the original concession, they had the right
to exploit them, and they remained in physical occupation of them
pending the result of the negotiations. In October 1927 the Persian
Government ratified an agreement by which the Fisheries were to be
exploited by a Russo-Persian association on a 50-50 basis.
For the telegraph concession granted in 1868 to Messrs. Siemens (The
Indo-European Telegraph Company) see the Telegraphs section, infra.
Until 1919 the Company was under Russian protection, but came under
Rritish protection in that year.
Ihe famous Reuter Concession, which had been granted in 1872 and
Cancelled in 1873, was remodelled and signed in January 1889 at Tehran.
Baron Reuter was accorded the grant for a term of 60 years of the Im
perial Bank of Persia, which was established under a British Royul
Charter in September 1889. Among other concessions were the issue of
bank notes which should be a legal tender; the service of the treasury;
and the rights of mining for iron, copper, lead, mercury, coal, petroleum,
borax and asbestos in all Persia. The Imperial Bank of Persia’s con
cession was modified in May 1930, when the Bank ceded its right of note
issue in. exchange for a lump sum of two hundred thousand pounds with
effect from the 21st March 1931.
The railway question, which had for some years been mooted in
Persia, was brought prominently forward by the terms of the Reuter
Concession of 1872, and since that time numerous concessions have
been granted to European Companies and others; but in only two
instances—one, the short line from Tehran to Shah Abdul Azim, a
distance of six miles, which is worked by a Belgian Company, and which
was granted in 1886; the other, the Amul railway in Mazanderan, which
was granted to Jlajji Amini Zarb (Muhammad Hassan)—have these con
cessions been taken up. After the conclusion of the Perso-Russian “ anti-
railway Agreement of 1890 (Appendix JNh. XXIII) two minor railway
concessions were granted in 1891, with the consent of the Russian and
British Governments, to a Belgian and a French subject respectively;
but both have since lapsed. A line from Julfa to Tabriz was constructed
by a Russian Company in 1916 and eventually handed over by the
Soviet Government under the terms of the 1921 Treaty: in the same
year (1916) a concession was granted to a Russian Company for the
construction of a line from Pireh-bazaar to Resht, which has since been

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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)
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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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