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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [251] (268/578)
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—NO. IX—18S7.
251
[TRANSLATION.]
ANNEX to PROTOCOL No. 4.
(A)
Description of the Afghan Frontier between the Heri-Rud and the Oxus
(Amou-Daria).
The frontier begins on the right bank of the Heri-Rud at a point marked on
the map by pillar No. 1 about 8,500 feet distant from a small tower situated on
a mound at the entrance of the Zulficar Pass. Pillar No. 2 is placed on the top
of the neighbouring rock which commands pillar No. 1. From pillar No. 2, the
frontier turns to the north for a distance of about half a mile as far as pillar No. 3,
which is situated on an eminence at the western extremity of a detached portion
of the cliff. From thence the frontier runs in a straight line towards the top of
a steep hill about a mile and a half distant in an east-north-easterly direction and
reaches pillar No. 4, placed on a low mound in the plain. Beyond this pillar the
frontier, taking a more easterly direction, runs for a distance of 4 miles as far
as pillar No. 5, placed on an eminence, and well in view of the second line of
heights on the northern side of a natural cavity in the rock. From this point
the frontier runs in a south-easterly direction along the crest of the second line
of heights as far as pillar No. 6, placed on the ridge of the northern cliff of the
eastern defile, at a distance of about a mile from the centre of the defile. Pillar
No. 7 is placed below pillar No. 6 near the road in the middle of the pass, and
pillar No. 8 is on the top of the southern cliff facing pillar No. 6. The frontier
then descends the crest of the second line of heights in a southerly direction,
and crosses the path leading to Karez-Elias and Abi-Charmi at a point about
2 J miles distant from the bifurcation of the four roads converging at the eastern
extremity of the defile of Zulficar. Pillar No, 9 is placed to fhe east of the path
on a small rock which overhangs it. From this pillar the frontier gradually
ascends the line of water-parting as far as the highest summit of the range of
Deugli-Dagh, marked by pillar No. 10. At the eastern extremity of this range
stands pillar No. 11. At a distance of about 9| miles in a south-easterly direc
tion are three low hills. On the middle one is placed pillar No. 12. Again turn
ing somewhat to the east the frontier runs towards pillar No. 13, placed beside
the road about half-way between Ak-Robat and Sumbakarez, and thence to
pillar No. 14, situated at a distance of 2^ miles to the east on the top of a hill.
Pillar No. 15 is about 9 miles from Ak-Robat, on the road leading to An-Rohak,
from thence the frontier runs in a straight line towards pillar No. 16, placed on the
more easterly and the higher of the two mounds of Koscha-Tehinguia, 5^ miles
north of An-Rohak. At about the same distance to the north-west of the spring
of Islim, stands pillar No, 17 placed on a flat-topped hill; on the side of the road
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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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