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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎96] (419/578)

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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XCV1
PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. XXV—1921.
(12) The Russo-Persian frontier is opened for free travel and transport ot
goods. Persia is allowed the transit of goods through Russia, with a
view to transport from whatever place of whatever things desired.
(13) The Government of Soviet Russia is ready, in co-operation with the
Persian Government, to organise the arrangements for the transport
of goods in Persia with the help of Russian resources for transport
ation, e.g., railways, boats and the like.
(14) Russia refrains from participating in any way in the organisation of
military forces in Persian territory.
(15) Russia agrees to the cessation of business agencies.
(16) Persia is granted the right of appointing its Consuls in all the towns and
points of Soviet Russia, and similarly in Turkistan and Transcaspia
and in the Allied States of Bokhara and Khiva.
The People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs to the Government of Soviet
Russia officially communicates the facts specified above, and fully hopes that this
step, on the part of Soviet Russia, has opened a new era in the history of the Russo-
Persian relations. And the Revolutionary people of Russia sends its fraternal
greetings to Persia, and sincerely wishes that the Persian nation will manage to
throw away from its feeble shoulders the burden of the oppression and tyranny
of the English and other Allied Colonial Governments whose object is completely
to strangle helpless Persia.
The Russian people believes that the Persian nation, counting thirty crores*
souls, cannot die ; and that such a nation, whose past is so great and creditable
and the annals of whose civilization contain names of men before whom the whole
civilized world justly bows its head in reverence, will, with one powerful effort,
wake up from its centuries-old slumber and, brushing aside the tyranny of the mean
robbers, enter the Comity of free civilized nations with a view to render new res
plendent services for the happiness of mankind.
Tchitcherin,
People's Commissary for Foreign Affairs
to the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic.
Annex III.
Tehran,
December 12, 1921.
Sir,
The Persian Government and the Mejliss have observed that Articles 5 and 6
of the Treaty concluded between our two countries are worded vaguely ; the Mejliss,
moreover, desires that the retrocession of Russian concessions to the Persian
Government should be made without reserve or condition, and, that Article 20
* Orore in Persian= 500,000.

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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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