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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎123] (140/578)

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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PERSIA—NO. XXI—1907. j
geographical position, has a special interest in the maintenance of the status quo
in the external relations of Thibet, have made the following arrangement:
Article 1 .
The two High Contracting Parties engage to respect the territorial integrity
of Thibet and to abstain from all interference in the internal administration.
Article 2 .
In conformity with the admitted principle of the suzerainty of China over
Thibet, Great Britain and Russia engage not to enter into negotiations with Thi
bet except through the intermediary of the Chinese Government. This engage
ment does not exclude the direct relations between British Commercial Agents
and the Thibetan authorities provided for in Article V of the Convention between
Great Britain and Thibet of the 7th September 1904, and confirmed by the Con
vention between Great Britain and China of the 27th April 1906 ; nor does it
modify the engagements entered into by Great Britain and China in Article I
of the said Convention of 1906.
It is clearly understood that Budhists, subjects of Great Britain or of Russia,
may enter into direct relations on strictly religious matters with the Dalai Lama
and the other representatives of Budhism in Thibet; the Governments of Great
Britain and Russia engage, as far as they are concerned, not to allow those rela
tions to infringe the stipulations of the present engagement.
Article 3.
i The British and Russian Governments respectively engage not to send Re
presentatives to Lhassa.
Article 4.
The two High Contracting Parties engage neither to seek nor to obtain, whether
for themselves or their subjects, any Concessions for railways, roads, telegraphs,
and mines, or other rights in Thibet.
Article 5.
The two Governments agree that no part of the revenues of Thibet, whether
in kind or in cash, shall be pledged or assigned to Great Britain or Russia or to
any of their subjects.
Annex to the Arrangement between Great Britain and Russia concerning Thibet.
Great Britain reaffirms the Declaration, signed by His Excellency the Viceroy
and Governor-General of India and appended to the ratification of the Convention
of the 7th September 1904, to the effect that the occupation of the Chumbi Valley

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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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