File 1377/1905 Pt 1 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Frontier Demarcation' [119v] (10/188)
The record is made up of 1 item (93 folios). It was created in Nov 1904-Oct 1921. 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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Hardinge, dated the 14th May
Telegram from Sir Arthur
1905.
Telegram to Sir Arthur Hardinge, No. 979, dated the 17th
Maj 1905.
Telegram from Sir Arthur Hardinge, dated the 22nd May 1905.
Telegram to Sir Arthur Hardinge, dated the 28th May 1905.
o. jlu expicun uie purpose or
these maps, I attach copies of
the marginally noted correspond
ence between Sir Arthur
Hardinge and myself.
6 . I beg that copies of this map may be sent to Sir Arthur Hardinge.
7. I have endeavoured to throw some light on the topography of Miriawa
in my Diary entry of 25th May 1905, to which I invite a reference.
t ^• 8 * T ! 1 - 6 * 2 ~ 1 . mile sll0ws manner in which the dry bed of the
Hadis or Mirjawa Diver splits up into innumerable and almost indistinguishable
branches before reaching the bed of the Dar-i-Ghiaban nulla. It shows the
dithcultyof fixing upon any particular point as the junction of the Ladis or
Mirjawa River and the Dar-i-Ghiaban.
. 9 * There is no line at present recognised as the boundary from the Dar-
i-Ghiaban to the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
of the Mirjawa hills (vide Sir Arthur Hardinge’s
telegram of 22nd May 1905). An arbitrary line drawn from any point on
the Dar-i-Ghiaban, a little north of our Padaha post (Killa Safed) to the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
, would probably suffice for all practical purposes.
10 . I would suggest that a copy of this letter be sent to Sir Arthur
Hardinge when forwarding to him copies of the above maps.
No. 3230, dated Camp Baghab, the 14th June 1905 (Confidential).
From-CoLONEL A. H. McMahon, C.S.I., C.I.E., British Commissioner, Seistan
Arbitration Commission,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.
I have the honour to forward herewith two maps of Mirjawa.
. 2 . One is on a scale of 2 ,/ =l mile and represents merely the country of
Mirjawa itself, i.e., that between the old ruined village of that name and our
new post, called by us Padaha, but known locally only as Killa Safed.
3. The second map is one on a scale of 1"=4 miles of the country round
Mirjawa. J
4. I beg that these two maps may be sent for reproduction in colours,
t.e., outline in black, hills in brown, irrigation channel in blue, and cultivation
m green. Por this purpose, three separate traces are sent with the r=4-mile
map and two traces "with 2 =1 mile map, the latter containing no hills. As
the number of copies to be printed will probably be few and the amount of
blue and green colouring small, it may be found more convenient to paint in
these two colours by hand. The figures of latitude and longitude in the
1 -4-mile map and the titles and notes in both maps should'be inserted in
proper type. It was not possible to have suitable lettering executed in our
Camp Office.
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Part 1 contains correspondence relating to the demarcation of the boundary in Baluchistan, between Persia, British India, and Afghanistan. The correspondence is between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Viceroy of India, the Foreign Office, and the 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:
- Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, British Commissioner, Seistan [Sīstān] Arbitration Commission;
- Evelyn Grant Duff, British Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran;
- Arthur Henry Hardinge, British Minister, Tehran;
- Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- the definition of the border in the Seistan region and around Mirjawar [Mīrjāveh];
- the allocation of water resources;
- the export of grain from Persia to British frontier posts;
- customs duties on exports into British territory.
Folio 133 is a copy of the agreement concerning the border at Mirjawar and the export of grain, signed by Arthur Hardinge and the Persian Prime Minister (Mushir-ed-Dowleh) on 13 May 1905.
Several maps are included, as follows:
- map of Mirjawa and neighbourhood (folio 121);
- sketch map of Mirjawar (folio 122);
- three maps of the North-Western Trans-Frontier (including Seistan province) in various scales (folios 202, 203, and 204).
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