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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎32] (49/578)

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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32
PERSIA—SISTAN.
The line was completed in 1917 and in the same year a branch temporary
line was constructed from Baft to Saidabad (Sirjan). An agreement was
signed in 1920 by the Persian Minister of Telegraphs and the Director,
Indo-European Telegraph Department, covering the construction of lines
from Kerman to Bandar-Abbas, from Bandar-Abbas to Task, and from
Bandar-Abbas to Lingeh, together with a branch temporary line from
Baft to Saidabad, but the agreement was never ratified. In 1921, the
proposal to construct the lines from Bandar-Abbas to Task and to Lingeh
was abandoned, and a revised draft agreement omitting all mention of
these was drafted in 1923; but was still under discussion on the date of
the withdrawal from Persia of the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
In 1923 a Telegraph Convention* was concluded between Persia and
Russia, in accordance with Article 21 of the Russo-Persian Treaty of
February 1921 (Appendix No XXV).
In October 1930 His Majesty’s Government informed the Persian
Government that the whole of the Indo-European Telegraph Department
organisation except the Cable Stations in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the
Persian section of the Task-Gwattur line would be withdrawn from
Persia on the 1st March 1931 This decision had been taken in connec
tion with the negotiations then proceeding for the conclusion of a general
treatv, and in response to the repeatedly expressed wishes of the Persian
Government; the six months’ notice provided for in the Department’s
concessions was not, therefore, given.
An Agreement setting out the conditions subject to which the with
drawal of the Department was arranged with the Persian Government is
under discussion with that Government.
The Indo-European Telegraph Company, which for several years had
been working at a loss, decided to withdraw at the same time, and so
informed the Persian Government in December 1930.
Sistan.
The rival claims of Persia and Afghanistan to sovereignty over Ristan
were for many years productive of disputes rvhich more than once
threatened a rupture of friendly relations behveen the two States.
Ristan was in ancient times, and especially^ under the Rafavian dynasty, a
dependency of Persia. On the death of Nadir Rhah it became an inte
gral portion of the Durani empire founded by Ahmad Rhah Abdali.
On the dismemberment of the Durani empire, Sistan became dependent
at one time on Herat, "when that province was isolated from the rest of
Afghanistan, with intervals of independence more or less prolonged,
and later still on Herat and Kandahar alternately. Although no inter
ference was exercised by Persia in the internal administration of Ristan,
* Appendix No. XXXIX.

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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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