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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎235] (252/578)

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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AFGHANISTAN—NO. Ill—1839.
235
No. III.
Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between the Honourable East India
Company and His Majesty Shah Kamran of Herat, concluded on the
thirteenth day of August 1839, corresponding with the second day of Jem-
madee-oos-sani 1255 a.h., by Major E. D’Arcy Todd, Envoy from the
Governor-General of India on the one part, and His Majesty Shah Kam
ran for himself, his heirs and successors, on the other.
Article 1.
There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the British Govern
ment and His Majesty Shah Kamran, his heirs and successors.
Article 2.
The British Government recognises the government of Herat, as at present
constituted, as being vested in His Majesty Shah Kamran, his heirs and succes
sors, and the British Government engages not to interfere in any way with the
internal administration of His Majesty’s dominions.
Article 3.
With a view to strengthen and perpetuate the concord subsisting between
the British Government and Shah Kamran, an accredited British Agent shall
always reside at the Court of His Majesty ; in like manner, should His Majesty
see fit, he will depute an accredited Agent to reside at the Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). of the Governor-
General.
Article 4.
The British Government undertakes to provide His Majesty Shah Kamran
with loans of money, with officers, and with all other means that may be found
necessary for the protection of His Majesty’s person and country, and to assist
in the defence of His Majesty’s right and interests against all foreign encroach
ment to the utmost of its ability.
Article 5.
With a view to enable the British Government efficiently to fulfil the obliga
tion contained in the preceding Article, and to obviate all just ground of com
plaint on the part of other powers, His Majesty Shah Kamran agrees to prohibit
for ever the practice of kidnapping or seizing human beings for the purpose of
selling them into slavery by any of His Majesty s subjects ; and should there be
any persons now in a state of bondage within the limits of His Majesty s authority,
who may have been enslaved in the manner above-mentioned, His M ajesty en
gages to exert his utmost endeavours to procurs the liberation of such persons.

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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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