Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’

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Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Duzdap [Zahedan] stretch of the North Western Railway, and territorial claims made by the Khan of Kalat, Mir Mohammad Azam Jan Khan, and the Persian Government. The volume’s correspondents include: Foreign Office and 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. officials; the British Legation at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare; Charles Dodd); the Government of India (Francis Verner Wylie); the Agent to Governor-General and Chief Commissioner for Baluchistan (Alexander Norman Ley Cater); the British Consul for Sīstān and Kain [Ka’īn] (Clive Kirkpatrick Daly).

The correspondence covers:

• The historical basis for negotiations, being surveys carried out in the 1870s, and a demarcation agreement concluded on 24 March 1896 by Colonel Thomas Hungerford Holdich, later referred to as the Holdich Line. Papers include correspondence from the 1930s in response to uncertainties about the precise position of the line (including extracts of the agreement in Persian), and copies of correspondence from 1895-1896 relating to the conclusion of Holdich’s agreement.
• Arrangements in 1932 for a joint British and Persian survey party to map the frontier, with Captain Guy Bomford of the Survey of India leading the British party. The results of Bomford’s survey are summarised in a copy of a secret letter, dated 9 June 1932, with accompanying maps (ff 113-119).

Extent and format

1 volume (323 folios)

It is grouped into

‘Rough sketch of Northern Section of Perso-Baluch Frontier’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 14

‘Copy of Map showing Territories adjacent to the Frontier’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 39

‘Beluchistan comprising Mekran and the Perso-Beluch Boundary.’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 40

Map of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s proposed frontier between Persia and Baluchistan

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 54

Map showing part of the Perso-Baluchistan frontier

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 55

‘Koh-i-Malik Siah from Survey by Mr. G. P. Tate’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 56

‘Copy of the Survey of India map of Baluchistan. Published in 1894.’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 57

‘Map of Western Baluchistan’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 58

Sketch map of the frontier between Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 101

‘Perso-Balūch Boundary from B.P. 11 to Kūh-i-Malik Sīāh’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 115

‘India and adjacent countries’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 118

‘Part of Perso-Baluch Frontier’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 119

Map of the frontier region between Persia, Afghānistān and Balūchistān

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 258

‘Sketch-map of the Perso-Baluchistan frontier north & south of Mirjawa.’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 282

Hand drawn map showing the course of the North Western Railway between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Dalbandin

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 292

Map showing the route of the North Western Railway from Duzdap [Zahedan] to Nok Kondī [Nok Kundi] and beyond

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 306

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 321; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and two ending flyleaves.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Written in

English and Persian in Latin and Arabic script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/12/3425

Former external reference(s)

Coll 28/28

History of this record

Date(s)

14 Apr 1924-20 Nov 1935 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

SurveysFrontiersBilateral agreementsMaps

Places

PersiaAfghanistanMirjawaBaluchistan

People & organisations

Government of Iran, Pahlavi dynastyBritish Legation, TehranForeign OfficeBritish Consul, Seistan and KainKhan of Kalāt, rulers of KalātAgent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner, BaluchistanPerso-Baluch Boundary CommissionGovernment of India

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