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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎213] (536/578)

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—APPENDIX NO. XllI—192f.
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tracting Party or involving political or military disadvantage to the latter. Simi
larly, each of the two Parties shall refrain from taking part in blockades or economic
boycotts directed against the other Party.
Article 4.
In the event of one or more third Powers at war with one of the two Con
tracting Parties violating the neutrality of the other Party, or causing troops,
arms or war material to pass through the latter’s territory, or seeking to procure
recruits, supplies, beasts of burden or necessaries of war in general on such terri
tory, or causing their armies in retreat to pass through such territory, or for their
own military purposes encouraging or inciting the population of the neutral Party
to rebel, the neutral Party shall be under obligation to prevent such operations
by armed force and to safeguard his neutrality.
Article 5.
The two Contracting Parties agree that within nine months from the exchange
of ratifications their plenipotentiaries shall meet at Teheran for the purpose of
concluding on a basis of equal treatment commercial, establishment, consular,
postal, telegraphic and extradition agreements.
Article 6 .
The two Contracting Parties agree to settle by the means laid down in the
Protocol annexed hereto such differences as may arise between them and as it
may not have been possible to settle through the ordinary diplomatic channels.
Article 7.
It is understood that, apart from the obligations which the two Contracting
Parties have assumed towards one another, each retains complete freedom of
action in his international relations.
Article 8 .
The present treaty is concluded for a period of six years, and shall come into
force after ratification by the legislative bodies of the two countries.
In the event of one of the two Contracting Parties not having announced his
intention six months before the expiry of the treaty to terminate it, it shall be
renewed for periods of one year, until such time as one of the two Parties announces,
not less than six months before the close of the year, his intention not to renew
it at the close of the year.
After the expiry of the first six years, notice of denunciation given less than
six months before the term of the treaty shall be of no effect.
Article 9.
The present treaty is drawn up in duplicate Persian texts, and the instruments
of ratification shall be exchanged at Kabul.

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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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