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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎5] (12/578)

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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CONTENTS.
V
PART II.
TREATIES and ENGAGEMENTS
RELATING TO AFGHANISTAN.
NARRATIVE 203
TREATIES, etc., No.
1.—Treaty of friendship and alliance concluded with Shah
Shuja of Kabul, dated 17th June 1809 . . . 233
II.—Memorandum of the wishes and expectations of Yar
Muhammad Khan of Herat, dated 9th June 1839 . 234
III. —Treaty of friendship and alliance concluded with Shah
Kamran of Herat, dated 13th August 1839 . . 235
IV. —Treaty of friendship and alliance concluded with Amir
Dost Muhammad Khan of Kabul, dated 30th March
1855 .237
V.—Agreement entered into by Amir Dost Muhammad
Khan for a subsidy from the British Government,
dated 26th January 1857 ...... 238
VI.—Treaty of Gandamak concluded with Amir Muhammad
Yakub Khan of Afghanistan, for the restoration
of peace and amicable relations with the British
Government, dated 26th May 1879 .... 240
VII.—Protocol signed by the British and Russian Govern
ments arranging for the demarcation of the Afghan
boundary between the Hari Rud and the Oxus,
dated 10th September 1885 ..... 243
VIII.—Protocol signed by the British and Russian Commis
sioners regarding the frontier line up to Dukchi,
dated 1st September 1886 ...... 245
IX. —Final protocol embodying the settlement of the North-
West Frontier of Afghanistan, dated 10th July 1887 247
Annex to the above protocol describing the Afghan
frontier between the Hari Rud and the Oxus . . 251
X. —Protocol signed by the British and Russian Govern
ments settling the question of the alleged infrac
tions which may have been committed by either
side of the stipulations relating to the waters of the
Kushk, dated 3rd September 1893 .... 253
XI. —Agreement entered into by Amir Abdur Raman Khan
of Afghanistan binding himself to abandon all dis
tricts not then held by him to the north of the
Upper Oxus on condition of his receiving in ex
change all the districts not then held by him to the
south of that river, dated 12th November 1893 . 255
XII. —Agreement entered into with Amir Abdur Rahman
Khan regarding the Indo-Afghan frontier, dated
12th November 1893 ...... 256
XIII. —Letter to the Amir of Afghanistan informing him that
the assurances given to him by the British Govern
ment in regard to his territory, when he had come
to the thx-one in 1880, remained still in force and
was applicable to any territory which might come
into his possession in consequence of his agreement
with the British Government regarding the Upper
Oxus frontier, dated 11th November 1893 . . 258
XIV. —Agreement with Afghanistan regarding the Afghan-
Kurram frontier, dated 21st November 1894 . . 258
XV.—Agreement with Afghanistan defining the boundary
line from the Hindu Kush to the neighbourhood of
Nawa Kotal, dated 9th April 1895 .... 260

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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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