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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎247] (264/578)

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. IX—1887.
247
No. IX.
[TRANSLATION.]
Demarcation of the North-West Frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. of Afghanistan.
PROTOCOL No. 4.
Sitting held at St. Petersburgh, 10th (22nd) July 1887.
The Privy Councillor Zinoview and Colonel Sir West Ridgeway, having met
with the object of coming to a definite understanding as to the terms of an arrange
ment for the solution of the difficulties which arose on the occasion of the demar
cation of the Afghan frontier on the left bank of the Amou-Daria began by re
capitulating the course which the negotiations between them had taken up to
the present time.
As appears from the previous protocols, the Cabinet of London was of opinion
that the arrangement arrived at in 1873 between the two Governments had for
its object to confirm the rights of the Amir of Afghanistan over all the districts
of which Shere Ali Khan was in possession at that time, and that on this basis
the district of Khamiab, which in accordance with the information obtained on
the spot, had been incorporated in Afghanistan long before the date of the arrange
ment in question, should also remain subject to the authority of the Amir Abdur
rahman Khan. The Imperial Government of Russia could not adopt this view,
and taking as a basis the text of the arrangement of 1873, they affirmed that the
present state of things on the left bank of the Amou-Daria could not be considered
as invalidating the rights of Bokhara resulting from that arrangement.
The Imperial Government considered it still less possible to sacrifice those
rights, since, in consequence of the demarcation carried out in accordance with
the terms of the Protocol of London of the 29th August (10th September) 1885,
the Sarik Turkomans of the Penjdeh Oasis had been dispossessed of the lands
which they had previously held, and those lands had been included in the terri
tory of Afghanistan.
Having regard to this difference of opinion, and being desirous of proving
their respect for the letter itself of the arrangement concluded between the two
Governments, the Cabinet of Her Britannic Majesty has authorised Sir West
Ridgeway to propose a frontier, which, starting from Dukchi, the point to which
the demarcation had already been carried out, would terminate at the Amou-
Daria, in the neighbourhood of Islim. After a detailed examination obtained
by their Commissioner on the spot, the British Cabinet had arrived at the con
clusion that Islim answered in every respect to the frontier point of Khodja-Saleh,
of which mention is made in the correspondence relative to the arrangement.
This proposal was likewise unacceptable to the Imperial Cabinet of Russia,
who, looking at the question from a totally different point of view, maintained
that, in view of the differences of opinion which had arisen between the respec
tive Commissioners when discussing the bearing of the local information, the
identity of the geographical names could alone serve as the basis for an equitable

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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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