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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [60] (77/578)
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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60 PERSIA—NOS. VI—1812 AND VII- 1814.
Form of His Majesty Futteh Ali Shah’s ratification of the Definitive Treaty
with England.
The auspicious definitive Treaty which the three plenipotentiaries of the two
hioh States have drawn up with the hand of sincerity and truth, and the contents
and meaning of which the splendid and glorious mind of the King like the sun has
illuminated with its rays, has now received the splendour of his ratification. P ease
God, the All-perfect protector, the following Articles will for ever be preserved
from langour in the execution of them.
Form of His Royal Highness Abbas Mirza’s ratification of the Definitive
Treaty with England.
His high and potent Majesty, the asylum of the world, having been pleased to
nominate me, the slave of the threshold of created beings’ asylum, heir-apparent
to his throne, in obedience to His Majesty’s commands (the shade of God, to whom
my life is a ready sacrifice), I have agreed to this same arrangement, and from this
period to the end of time hold myself and my heirs, generation after generation,
bound to respect and hold sacred the terms and the Articles comprised in this happy
Treaty concluded between the two great States ; and by the grace of God this
alliance with Great Britain shall be binding and durable for ever. Please the
Almighty, our defender during the lapse of ages, nothing shall intervene that may
militate against it.
No. VII.
Treaty concluded with the Shah of Persia for the Adjustment of the Terms
of the Definitive Treaty of 1812,—1814.
Praiss to to God, All-perfect and All-snfficient.
These happy leaves are a nosegay plucked from the thornless garden of concord
and tied by the hands of the plenipotentiaries of the two great States in the form
of a definitive Treaty, in which the Articles of friendship and amity are blended.
Previously to this period the high in station, Sir Harford Jones, Baronet, envoy
extraordinary from the English Government, came to this Court to form an ami
cable alliance, and in conjunction with the plenipotentiaries of Persia, their
Excellencies (titles) Mirza Mohammed Shelfee and Hajee Mohammed Hossein
Khan concluded a preliminary Treaty, the particulars of which were to be detailed
and arranged in a definitive Treaty, and the above mentioned Treaty, according
to its Articles, was ratified by the British Government.
Afterwards, when His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley, ambassador extraordinary
from His Britannic Majesty, arrived at this exalted and illustrious Court for the
purpose of completing the relations of amity between the two States, and was
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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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- ‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’
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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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