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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries [...] Vol XI containing the treaties, & c., relating to Aden and the south western coast of Arabia, the Arab principalities in the Persian Gulf, Muscat (Oman), Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier Province’ [‎13v] (35/822)

The record is made up of 409 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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CONTENTS.
N OUT 11-W EST E llOi\ I IE K PRO VIN CK—con 11 n a eel.
V.—K ohat D isxiiict— continued.
(1) Afridis —continued.
TREATIES, etc., No.
Vlll.—Agreement entered into by tlio Galm and Akliorwal
Hassan Klicl for tiie safety of tile Kohat Pass road,
dated June 1926
IX.—Agreement entered into Iiy tlic (lalai iiud Akhorwal
Hassan Jvliol regarding the sale of Mills bombs,
dated June IU2G .....•-
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(2) Orakzai.
NARRATIVE
TREATIES, etc.. No
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Agreement entered into to the Bizoti jmd liroz Khel
divisions of the Daulatzai clan engaging to main
tain a post in the Kohat Pass, dated 3rd December
1853
XI,-—Agreement enteied into b_\ r the Sipah division of the
Muhammad Khel elan for the protection of the
Kohat Pass, dated Gth December 1853
X11.—Agreement entered into by the Utman Khel division
of the Danlatzai clan engaging to maintain a post
in the Kohat Pass, dated 22nd March 1855
XIII.—Agreement entered into by the Rabia Khel division
of the Ismailzai clan regarding their future good
conduct, dated 20th September 1855
XIV.—Agreement entered into by the Utman Khel and the
Alisherzai for their general good conduct and the
regulation of their intercourse with the British
Government, dated 2nd August 1858
XV.—Agreement entered into by the Alisherzai regarding
their future good conduct, dated 25th March 1870 .
XVI.—Agreement entered into by the Bar Muhammad Khel,
Abdul Aziz Khel and Mani Khel divisions of the
Muhammad Khel clan regulating their intercourse
with the British Government, dated 2nd April 1872
XVII.—A greement entered into by the Sipah division of the
Muhammad Khel clan regulating their intercourse
with the British Government, dated 10th May 1872
XVIII.—Agreement entered into by the Akhel division of the
Ismailzai clan regarding tribal service and the
maintenance of order within their limits, dated 25th
May 1891 .........
XIX.—Agreement entered into by the Rabia Khel division
of the Ismailzai clan regarding tribal service and the
maintenance of order within their limits, dated 1st
June 1891
XX. Agreement entered into by the Bar Muhammad Khel
and Mani Khel divisions of the Muhammad Khel
clan on the grant to them oi allowances for protect
ing the border and maintaining two towers, dated
June 1893
XXI.—Agreement entered into by the Sturi Khel clan for
protecting the border, dated 29th June 1893
XXII.—Agreements entered into by the Rabia Khel proprie
tors on the acquisition of certain rights in two
springs at Fort Lockhart. dated 22nd Jnne 1899
XXIII.—Agreement entered into by the Firoz Khel division
of the Daulatzai clan for the replacement of tribal
chaukidars by Border Police at the Kotal Post,
dated <th November 1899
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The volume is a fifth edition of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) signed between representatives of the British Government or East India Company, and foreign rulers, dignitories or government officials, in the regions of Aden, south west Arabia, the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including Muscat and Oman, Baluchistan, and the north-west frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. province (present-day Pakistan). 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 Dehli, under the authority of the Government of India.

Part 1 contains treaties and engagements relating to Aden and the southwest coast of Arabia:

  • An historical overview of British (and Turkish) involvement in the region, including descriptions of the treaties and engagements signed;
  • The Anglo-Turkish Convention (in French) respecting the boundaries of Aden, dated 9 March 1914;
  • Treaties and conventions, agreed between the years 1802-1917, at Aden and with the Abdali tribe, the Subeihi, Fadhli, Aqrabi, Aulaqi, Irqa, Lower Haura, Beihan, Yafai, Audhali, Haushabi, Alawi, the Amirate of Dhala, the Wahidi, Kathiri, the Sultanate of Mukalla, Soqotra [Suquṭrā] and Qishn, Yemen, and the Idrisi. The treaties cover agreements of commerce, friendship and protection; agreements for the cession or purchase of land, for the abolition of the slave trade, storage of coal, protection of shipwrecked British sailors.

Part 2 contains treaties and engagements relating to the Arab principalities of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , divided into the following areas: 1) The Wahhābī A follower of the Islamic reform movement known as Wahhabism; also used to refer to the people and territories ruled by the Al-Saud family. and Nejd [Najd]; 2) Bahrain; 3) The Trucial Arab shaikhs (of Oman); and 4) Kuwait:

  • An historic overview of the agreements made between the British and the region’s rulers, organised by tribes and/or geographical locality;
  • Agreements and treaties signed with the Wahhābī A follower of the Islamic reform movement known as Wahhabism; also used to refer to the people and territories ruled by the Al-Saud family. tribe, including: an agreement between the Wahhābī A follower of the Islamic reform movement known as Wahhabism; also used to refer to the people and territories ruled by the Al-Saud family. and British Government over aggression towards the Arab tribes, dated 21 April 1866; a series of conventions and treaties agreed in the 1920s, establishing boundaries and relations between the Kingdom of Najd and its neighbours; the Treaty of Jeddah, dated 20 May 1927;
  • Agreements and treaties signed with the ruler of Bahrain, relating to: piracy and slavery (1820), abstention from entering into relations with foreign powers (1880, 1892), arms trafficking, wireless telegraphy (1912), and oil exploitation (1914);
  • Agreements and treaties signed with the shaikhs of the Arab coast, relating to respect for British property (1806), piracy (1820), the slave trade (1838, 1873), the maintenance of maritime peace in perpetuity (1853), the Anglo-Qatar treaty (1916); oil exploitation (1922);
  • Agreement and treaties signed with the ruler of Kuwait, relating to: arms trafficking, exclusive post office rights (1904), pearling and sponge fishing concessions (1911), wireless telegraphy (1912), oil exploitation (1913), boundaries between Kuwait and Najd (1922) and Kuwait and Iraq (1923).

Part 3 contains treaties and engagements relating to Oman, chiefly Muscat but also Sohar:

  • An historical overview of the Sultanate of Muscat, and the agreements made between Britain and Muscat;
  • Treaties and conventions, agreed between the years 1798 and 1929, including: the exclusion of the French from the Sultan of Muscat’s territories (1798); suppression of the slave trade (1822, 1873); commerce (1839); cession of the Kuria Muria islands [Jazā'ir Khurīyā Murīyā] (1854); the independence of Zanzibar (1861, 1862); telegraphic communications (1864, 1865); jurisdiction of Indian subjects at Muscat (1873); friendship and commerce (1891); coalfields at Ṣūr (1902); arms traffic (1919); prolongation of the commercial treaty (1891); treaty of peace between the Sultan of Muscat and Chief of Sohar (1839).

Part 4 contains treaties and engagements relating to Baluchistan:

  • An historic overview of the region and its districts, including British involvement in Baluchistan, organised by the Kalat [Kelat] Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Sibi Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , and British Baluchistan and its territories;
  • The treaties and conventions listed for Kelat, agreed between the years 1839 and 1925, include: an engagement between the British Government and the Khan of Kelat (1839), the Khan of Kelat’s allegiance and submission to the British Government (1841); various agreements for the protection of the Indo-European telegraph line; cession of lands for the Kandahar Railway (1880), Mushkaf-Bolan Railway (1894) and Nushki Railway (1906); demarcation of the boundary between Persian Baluchistan and Kelat (1896);
  • The treaties and conventions listed for Sibi and British Baluchistan, agreed between the years 1884 and 1897, including: cession to the British Government of rights to petroleum and other mineral oils (1885); agreement on the Bargha and Largha boundary line (1895), grazing fees for animals and responsibility for good behaviour within the British border at Zhob, signed by the Suliman Khel Ghilzai (1897).

Part 5 contains treaties and engagements relating to the northwest frontier province:

The appendices contain a number of treaties signed between foreign rulers, including treaties agreed between Muscat and the United States, French and Dutch Governments, as well as British Parliament acts and memoranda related to the treaties and engagements in the volume.

Extent and format
409 folios
Arrangement

The volume is arranged into five key geographical regions: Aden and the southwest coast of Arabia, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Oman (Muscat) and Sohar, Baluchistan, and the northwest frontier province. The main body of the volume, containing the narrative treaties, is arranged into parts covering these five regions. The appendices at the end of the volume is likewise arranged by the five regions.

Each part (or region) is further subdivided into a number of smaller units, and in some cases further subdivided into smaller units. These subdivisions can be tribal, geographical and administrative in nature. Within each part, the narrative treaties are numbered with Roman numerals, restarting at I at the beginning of each part.

There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff.2-17) which lists the geographical regions, their subdivisions 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.363-405) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The volume’s foliation sequence uses circled pencil numbers, located in the top-right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 405. Total number of folios: 405. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 409.

Pagination: The volume has a series of printed pagination sequences, expressed in Roman numerals for the contents, appendices and index pages, and in Arabic numerals for the volume’s main content matter. These numbers are located in the top-left corner of versos and the top-right corner of rectos.

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