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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [74] (91/578)
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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74
PERSIA—NO. XV—1848.
Translaiion of an Autograph Note from His Majesty the Shah to Hajee
Mirza Aghassee, —June 12th, 1848—Rejjeb 10th, 1264.
Your Excellency the Hajee, let them not bring any negroes by sea, let them
be brought by land. Purely for the sake of Farrant Sahib (Lieutenant-Colonel
Farrant), with whom I am much pleased, I have consented to this. On this subject
write to the Governors of Fars and Arabia (Persian Arabia).
Solely on account of the goodness of Farrant* I have consented, otherwise some
trifling discussions still exist between us and the English Government.
{Translation.)
Hajee Mirza Aghassee to Lieutenant-Colonel Farrant, —12th June 1848.
Your communication regardmg negroes has been received and its content
fully understood.
With a view to the request made by you, my sincere and esteemed friend, and
solely on account of the sincere friendship and good feelings I entertain towards
you, I did not consider it proper to withhold or delay the fulfilment of your desire,
and exerted my endeavours to preserve the existing friendship between the two
exalted governments of Persia and England by laying your request in detail at a
most fortunate time before His Majesty, etc., etc., the Shah ; may his dominion
and sovereignty be everlasting !
An imperative order has been issued which evinces the exceedingly great
favour entertained towards you, my honoured friend, by His Majesty, etc., etc.,
the Shah, which is evident will always increase. The importation of slaves by
sea alone is forbidden, and imperative orders will be issued to the Governors of
Fars and Arabia that hereafter strict prohibition should be observed that no
negroes should be either imported or exported except by land.
This affair, in fulfilment of the request of that esteemed friend, has, thank
God, been concluded through the countless favour of His Majesty, etc., etc., the
Shah, towards you, and by my exertions.
But the Persian ministers in equal proportion require that, by the true friend
ship of the ministers of the British Government, when they make a request it
will also be acceded to.
Translation of a
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
issued by His Majesty the Shah to Hossein Khan,
Governor of Fars,— 1848.
To the high in rank, the pillar of nobility, etc., etc., Hossein Khan, the Control
ler of State Affairs and Governor of Fars, who has been exalted and supported by
the distinguished favours of His Majesty, etc., etc., the Shah, be it known—
That it is a long time since a request for the abolition of the importation of
negroes by sea was made on the part of the ministers of the British Government
Thus in the original.
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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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