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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [221] (238/578)
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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AFGHANISTAN.
221
1903 and arrived on the Sistan border in the following month, having
been joined on the w’ay by the Afghan commissioner; and in March
Colonel McMahon entered Persian Sistan and came into direct com
munication with the Persian commissioners. Meanwhile the survey of
the whole disputed area was being pushed on, and in November Colonel
McMahon formally delivered his boundary award to the Persian and
Afghan commissioners. Some delay ensued; but eventually the award
was accepted by the Afghan and Persian Governments, and the line
from Enh-i-Malik Siah to the Siah Koh was demarcated by pillars along
its entire length at the end of December 1904. In February 1905
Colonel McMahon formally delivered to the Persian and Afghan com
missioners the final maps and arbitral statements (No. XX) relating to
the Sistan boundary, as also the detailed list of the boundary pillars
showing the position and nature of each pillar.
In November 1904 Mr. L. W. Dane, Foreign Secretary to the Gov
ernment of India, was sent on a mission to Kabul. Mr. Dane reached
Kabul on the 12th December, and on the 21st March 1905 concluded,
on behalf of the British Government, a Treaty (No. XXI) with the Amir
Habibulla Khan, continuing the agreements which had existed between
the British Government and Abdur Rahman Khan.
In December 1904 Amir Habibulla Khan deputed his eldest
son,
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Inayatulla Khan, to India to pay a visit to the Viceroy.
Lord Curzon received the
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
at Calcutta, and he returned to Kabul
in January 1905.
The full investigations which had been made during his long stay in
Sistan had enabled Colonel McMahon to mature his views regarding the
irrigation rights of both Persia and Afghanistan: and, the boundary
question having been settled, he called upon the Persian and Afghan
commissioners to submit statements of their cases in respect of these
rights and, after consideration of their respective representations, he
delivered his water award in April 1905 (No. XXII). The Amir
accepted the arbitral decision with one reservation; but, up to the end of
1930, the Persian Government had still not notified its acceptance.
From the 2nd January to the 7th March 1907, the Amir visited India.
On his arrival, with a suite of 1,100 men, he was accorded a salute of
31 guns, and in a telegram of welcome from King Edward he was for
the first time addressed as “His Majesty ”.
An Anglo-Russian Convention, relating to Persia, Afghanistan and
Tibet, was signed at St. Petersburg in August 1907, and ratified in the
following month [see Part I, Persia, No. XXI). As regards Afghanis
tan, His Majesty’s Government disclaimed any intention of altering the
political status or (subject to the observance of the Treaty of 1905) of
interfering in the administration, or annexing any territory, of Afgha
nistan, and engaged to use her influence in Afghanistan in no manner
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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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