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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [76] (399/578)
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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Ixxvi
PERSIA- APPENDIX NO. XX—1888.
APPENDIX No. XX.—[See page 18.]
Translation of a Proclamation of the Shah of Persia respecting the Protec
tion of the Lives and Properties of Persian Subjects. Tehran, 26 th
May. 1888.
Official Government Proclamation.
The Great and Most High God having made our holy person the source of justice
and benevolence, and the executor of his command and power, and having especially
entrusted the protection of the lives and property of the subjects of the united
countries of Persia into our well-skilled hands, in thanksgiving for this great bounty
we consider it incumbent on us in the execution of this trust not to draw back from
or evade the distribution of justice and the protection of the lives and property of
the people of this country from the encroachment of oppressors, and (we consider
it incumbent upon us) to so properly endeavour and persevere that the people be
masters of their lives and property, in order that they may, with the greatest ease
and prosperity, engage themselves in enterprises which are the basis of civilization
and the source of wealth ; therefore, for the information and assurance of all the
subjects and people, in order to make them acquainted with the watchfulness,
tempered with justice, of our sovereign mind by the issue of this great Proclamation
and noble Address, we make it generally known to the people of the united countries
of Persia that all our subjects, as regards their lives and property, are free and inde
pendent, so that they may, without fear or apprehension, exercise any right of
proprietorship they like over their own belongings, and any enterprise for which the
combination of money and formation of companies for the construction of works
and roads and any branch of the branches of civilization and wealth which they
may undertake will give us satisfaction and pleasure, and the protection of such is
our duty, and no one shall have the right or power to lay hands upon, or take
possession of, or interfere with the life or property, or punish or chastise the
subjects of the Persian Government, except it be in execution of the religious and
civil laws.
Month of Ramazan-ul-Mubareh 1303 {May 1888).
Translation of a Tirman of the Shah of Persia for the execution of the foregoing
Proclamation. May 1888 .
. . ( Tlle Flrmari 9 contain the same words as the Proclamation, with an additional
injunction, of which the following addressed to the Veliahd, or Heir-Apparent, at
labriz, is a specimen.)
It is commanded that the Dawn of the Soul’s Light, the Key of the Gates of
ic ory, t e ight of the Eyes, of the Khilafet and Kingdom, Resplendence of th
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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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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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