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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [240] (257/578)
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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240
AFGHANISTAN—NO. VI—1879.
No. VI.
Treaty between the British Government and His Highness Muhammad
Yakub Khan, Amir of Afghanistan and its dependencies, concluded
at Gandamak on the 26th May 1879, by His Highness the Amir Muham
mad Yakub Khan on his own part, and on the part of the British Govern
ment by Major P. L. N. Cavagnari, C.S.I., Political Officer on Special
Duty, in virtue of full powers vested in him by the Right Honorable Ed
ward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton of Knebwoeth,
and a Baronet, Grand Master of the Most Exalted Order of the Star
of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Grand Master of the Order of the Indian Empire, Viceroy and
Governor-General of India.
The following Articles of a Treaty for the restoration of peace and amicable
relations have been agreed upon between the British Government and His High
ness Muhammad Yakub Khan, Amir of Afghanistan and its dependencies :—
Article 1.
From the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty there
shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the British Government on the
one part and His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan and its dependencies, and
his successors, on the other.
Article 2.
His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan and its dependencies engages, on the
exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, to publish a full and complete am-
nesty, absolving all his subjects from any responsibility for intercourse with the
British Forces during the war, and to guarantee and protect all persons of what
ever degree from any punishment or molestation on that account.
Article 3.
His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan and its dependencies agrees to conduct
his relations with Foreign States, in accordance with the advice and wishes of
the British Government. His Highness the Amir will enter into no engagements
with Foreign States, and will not take up arms against any Foreign State except
with the concurrence of the British Government. On these conditions, the British
Go\ ernment will support the Amir against any foreign aggression with money,
arms, or troops, to be employed in whatsoever manner the British Government
* Ila y judge best for this purpose. Should British troops at any time enter Afghan
istan for the purpose of repelling foreign aggression, they will return to their
stations in British territory as soon as the object for which they entered has been
accomplished.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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