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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎201] (524/578)

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—APPENDIX NO. VUI—1921.
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the full significance of the term, of the Afghan nation, to which she is bound with
ties of the utmost sincerity and conscientiousness.
Article II.
The two High Contracting Parties recognise that all Eastern nations possess
complete liberty and right of independence, and that each of these nations is free
to administer itself by such form of administration as it may particularly desire,
and they recognise the independence of the States of Bokhara and Khiva.
Article III.
Turkey having for centuries given guidance to and rendered distinguished
services to Islam, and holding in her hand the standard of the Caliphate, Afghan
istan in this connection recognises the leadership of Turkey.
Article IV.
Each of the High Contracting Parties will consider as directed against herself
personally, and will oppose with all the means at her disposal, any attack made
against the other by any Imperialistic State in pursuance of the policy of inva
sion and exploitation of the East.
Article V 7 .
Each of the Contracting Parties undertakes not to conclude any Treaty or
Convention injurious to the interests of the other party or which would be in the
interests of a third State with which the other is not on friendly terms, and to give
prior notice to the other of the forthcoming conclusion of an Agreement with any
nation whatsoever.
Article VI.
With a view to the regularisation of commercial and economic relations and
Consular affairs, the two Contracting Parties will conclude the necessary Conven
tions separately, and Ambassadors will from henceforth be sent by each to the
capital of the other.
Article VII.
Turkey agrees to help Afghanistan militarily* and to send instructors and officeis.
These missions of teachers and officers will serve for a minimum jieriod of five
years, and on the expiration of that period, if Afghanistan so desires, a new mis
sion of instructors will be sent.
Article VIII.
This Treaty will be ratified with the least possible delay, and its clauses will
be in force from that time.
•Translator’s note. —This appears to be the sense, though the word is apparently misprinted.

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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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