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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎256] (273/578)

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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256
AFGHANISTAN—NO. XII—1893.
of this agreement, if the Russian Government equally abides by them, His High
ness Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, G.C.S.I., Amir of Afghanistan and its Depen
dencies, wishing to show his friendship to the British Government and his readi
ness to accept their advice in matters affecting his relations with Foreign Powers,
hereby agrees that he will evacuate all the districts held by him to the north of
this portion of the Oxus on the clear understanding that all the districts lying
to the south of this portion of the Oxus and not now in his possession, be handed
over to him in exchange. And Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.,
Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, hereby declares on the part of
the British Government that the transfer to His Highness the Amir of the said
districts lying to the south of the Oxus is an essential part of this transaction,
and undertakes that arrangements will be made with the Russian Government
to carry out the transfer of the said lands to the north and south of the Oxus.
H. M. Durand.
Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.
Kabul :
12th November 1893.
12th November 1893=[2nd Jamadi-ul-awul 1311),
No. XII.
Agreement between His Highness Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, G.C.S.I., Amir
of Afghanistan and its Dependencies on the one part, and Sir Henry
Mortimer Durand, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Foreign Secretary to the Govern
ment of India, representing the Government of India on the other part,
—1893.
Whereas certain questions have arisen regarding the frontier of Afghanistan
on the side of India, and whereas both His Highness the Amir and the Govern
ment ol India are desirous of settling these questions by a friendly understand-
mg, and of fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence, so that for the
future there may be no difference of opinion on the subject between the allied
Governments, it is hereby agreed as follows :
(1) The eastern and southern frontier of His Highness s dominions, from
Wakhan to the Persian border, shall follow the line shown in the map* attached
to this agreement.
(2) Ihe Government of India will at no time exercise interference in the terri
tories lying beyond this line on the side of Afghanistan, and His Highness the
Amir will at no time exercise interference in the territories lying beyond this line
on the side of India.
(3) The British Government thus agrees to His Highness the Amir retain
ing Asmar and the valley above it, as far as Chanak. His Highness agrees on the
other hand that he will at no time exercise interference in Swat, Bajaur or Chitral
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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)
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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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