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File 1377/1905 Pt 2 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Border Meetings' [41r] (77/224)
The record is made up of 1 item (111 folios). It was created in Dec 1903-Mar 1907. It was written in English. 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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Telegram, No. 475, dated the £ 8 th Becemler 1906.
From Sir C. Spring-Rice, K.C.M.G., His Britannic Majesty^s Minister, Tehran,
To—The Foreign Secretary, Calcutta.
Please refer to my telegram, No. 462, regarding the Mekran frontier
meeting. The Persian Government state that Mirza Mahmud Khan will
arrive at Pishin about the 16th January and will stay from 40 to 60 days.
They suggest that all cases remining unsettled after that should be dealt with
at Kerman by the Governor, the Karguzar, and His Majesty’s Consul on Mirza
Mahmud Khan’s return.
This telegram has been repeated to Bushire and Kerman.
Telegram, No. S.— 216, dated the 31st December 1906,
From—The Foreign Sacrelary, Calcutta,
To—The Hon’ble Mr A. L. P. Tucker, C.I.E., Agent to the Governor-General in
Baluchistan, Quetta.
Foreign Department telegram S.—181, dated 15th December. Following
from Minister, Tehran, No. 475, dated 28th December:— Begins. Please
refer to my * * * has been repeated to Bushire and Kerman. Ends.
No. 6183, dated Quetta, the 21st December 1906.
From—The Hon'ele Mr A. L. P. Tucker, C.I.E., Officiating Agent to the
Governor-General in Baluchntan,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Forign Department.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Clarke’s letter
No. 3719, dated the 4th instant, regarding the Charbar border meetino* of
June 1906.
2. With reference to paragraph 5 of that letter I have the honour to
state that I quite agree with the Government of India that the continuance of
the present system of combined meetings is desirable. Subject to such recon
sideration as the circumstances of British and Persian Mekran may demand a
year hence, I think that Charbar, or some other place equally convenient to
the Telegraph Department, may be agreed to as the locality where the 1908
meeting may be held. Before, however, a definite intimation is made to this
effect, it will probably be well to await the results of the Pishia meeting next
month. I should mention that I have not proposed the abandonment of these
meetings, combined or otherwise. The impression that the abandonment of
the meetings have been a matter under consideration appears to rest on passages
in Captain McConaghey’s letter, No. 17 C.-P., dated the 15th June 1906, which
gives an account of his special deputation to Persian Mekran last winter in
connection with the illicit traffic in arms. Captain McConaghey certainly
recommended that he shonld be sent on similar deputation again this winter,
and that the Director of
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Telegraphs should send him his border
cases for settlement. But by the insertion of the words “ settlement at the
border meeting” in my covering report No. 645, dated 17th August 1906, I
intended to make it clear that I did not advocate the abandonment of the
Border meetings and the substitution for them of an arrangement under wffiich
the Assistant
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
in Mekran would tour in Persian Mekran with
some regularity and while on tour carry out practically Consular duties in
respect of claims against Perso-Baluchistan made by British Indian subjects on
the Perso-Mekran littoral. Clearly before an arrangement of this kind could
be considered, the assent of the Persian Government would be required thereto,
while I infer from the absence of instructions on my reeemmendation that
Captain McConaghey might be allowed this winter to carry out a second tour in
Perso-Baluchistan in connection with the arms traffic, that the assent of the
Persian Government to a repetition of the tour will not be readily forthcoming.
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Part 2 contains correspondence relating to meetings between Persian and British officials to address matters of dispute and to promote order along the frontier zone. The correspondence is between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, Viceroy of India, Foreign Office, and 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. . Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- the Persian Prime Minister (Mushir-ed-Dowleh);
- Major Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire;
- Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan;
- British Consul at Kerman;
- Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kalat;
- British Chargé d'Affaires (later, Minister), Tehran;
- Director of Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Telegraphs, a division of the Indo-European Telegraph Department of the British Government;
- Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Mekran [Makran].
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- the question of a garrison of Persian troops at Irafshan [Īrafshān];
- the demolition of a fort at Magas;
- British opinion of the incoming Governor-General of Kerman and Governor of Baluchistan;
- proposals for closer ties between British authorities in Kerman and those in Baluchistan;
- the arrangement of annual meetings between Persian and British officials to discuss frontier matters;
- the outcome of these meetings for the years 1905 and 1906;
- the postponement of the 1907 meeting owing to unrest in Dizak following the death of the Shah of Iran (Muẓaffari’d-Dīn Shāh Qājār);
- the question of political control over the Mekran border;
- the case of Persian government official, Mir Ahmad Khan, entering British territory in pursuit of tribesmen who were allegedly avoiding the payment of taxes.
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