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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [226] (243/578)
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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Goyernment in the neighbourhood of Torkham, thereby altering the line
demarcated under Article 5 of the Peace Treaty of 1919. Schedule II
provided for matters of detail connected with Legations and Consulates.
Added to the Treaty, and published with it, were four letters dealing
more particularly with the import of munitions; excluding Russian
Consulates and representatives from the territories of Jalalabad, Ghazni
and Kandahar; and declaring the goodwill of the British Government
towards all frontier tribes.
Ihe Ireaty had hardly been signed when Sir Henry Dobbs learned
that, contrary to an undertaking which had been given to him when the
realignment of the Torkham boundary had been under discussion, the
Afghans were still in possession of Arnawai in Chitral, which had been
occupied during the period of the armistice of 1919. On November 29th
(he Amir gave orders for the withdrawal of all Afghan troops fiom
Arnawai and for its restoration to Chitral; and on the 4th December
Sir Henry Dobbs, on his way to Peshawar, carried out the realignment
o± the boundary at Torkham.
Compliance with the Amir’s order for the evacuation of Arnawai
was delayed till the 17th January, when Arnawai itself was handed
hack to the Chitral representative. The “ lands known as Dokalim ”
which were also claimed by the Mehtar of Chitral, as forming part of
. rnawai were not restored, and remained in Afghan possession till 1921).
le questions of title to these lands, and the delimitation of the frontier,
7'iw o’! 7 t J h<! TIC,n - V Agreement of the 9th April 1895 (No. XV),
are still (1930) under negotiation with the Afghan Government.
Shortly after the conclusion of the Treaty His Majesty the King, in
l-tT ,° f C r°“ P k mentary messages with the Amir, accorded to the
latter the style of “ His Majesty ”,
. In A Prl1 1922 > in accordance with the terms of the Treaty, British
tivelv Af H a Vl g »l° nS Were e8taHi8hed in Kabul and London respec-
, "o- , 6 I' 8 *. Ministers being Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Humphrys
Chid 1 j £ H . Ehan - I!rifish Consulates were instituted at
ral' and d th an A f “'“.T m , Au S ust 1922 - The Afghan Consulate-Gene-
vear. a nd % “ 0onsuIates India, were inaugurated in the same
in Hal,L I th 1 i 0 ’ Af w n , Tra r e Conyention ( No - XXV) relating to goods
“• T “-"
British 1 terrify and ' 924 nntnages committed by Afghan subjects in
snh cs of t * f rS m r an,, SpinChilla ’ niin'der by Afghan
iltte necetL d" if n6ar Lan<li Kotal, and certain other
matters necessitated tbe dctpnfi’nti ot
terms of the Treaty of iqoi f ' *7’ m urcor <iance with the
e meaty ot 1921, of arms consigned from abroad to the
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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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