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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎8] (561/578)

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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INDEX.
Gokcha. —Occupation of by the Russians ...... 8
Goldsmid, Major-General—
Award by regarding the Sistan boundaries .... 34, 210, 220
Definition by of the Persian-Kalat frontier 14
Helmand water award 35, 210
Grant, Sir Hamilton 223, 224
Granville, Lord 214, 215
Graves, Mr. —Murder in Persian Baluchistan of Superintendent,
Indo-European Telegraph Line ....... 35
Gujrat, Battle of 206
Gulistan, Treaty of ...... ... 8, 9
Habibulla Khan, Amir of Afghanistan 220, 221, 222
Hamadan. —Occupation of by a British Expeditionary Force . . 20
Hashtadan.— Settlement of the claims of Persia and Afghanistan to
the lands ........... 18, 217
Helmand—
34, 35, 310
34, 35, 220, 221, 283
water award
- water award
against foreign encroachments
Goldsmid’s
McMahon’s
Herat—
Assistance to be rendered to
Capture of by Amir Abdur Rahman Khan .
Capture of by Amir Dost Muhammad Khan .
Capture of by King Nadir Shah
Capture of by Persian troops ....
Conquest of by Ahmad Shah Abdali
Establishment of a Russian Consulate at .
Expedition against by Amir Dost Muhammad Khan
Independence of from Persian suzerainty .
Intrigues in of Yar Muhammad Khan
Overtures by to Persia for help against Kabul and Kandahar 11, 205,
206, 207
Persian aggressions on
Persian troops not to be sent to ....
Relinquishment by Persia of claims to suzerainty over
Retention by Shah Mahmud of ....
Siege of by Persia
Withdrawal of Persian troops from
Humphrys, Sir Francis
Husain, Shah of Persia .
206
213
208
231
12, 207
4
225
33, 207, 208, 213
2, 205, 206, 235
205, 206
10, 204, 207
. 11, 12, 76
82
204
. 10, 204
. 82, 208
226
3
Ibrahim Beg, Basmachi Outlaw .
Ibrahim Khan of Chakansur .
Ibrahim Khan, Persian Governor of Bampur
Ignatiew, Mons
Imperial Airways ....
Imperial Bank of Persia—
Reuter concession for
Road building concessions obtained by the
232
33
14
218
169
23, 24
24

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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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