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File 1377/1905 Pt 1 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Frontier Demarcation' [‎159r] (89/188)

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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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revenues of the State. If, in connection with the settlement of Seistan and frontier
affabs your Highness could relieve the people of Seistan from these restnc ions on
their agriculture and trade, restrictions which, as you are aware, exist m no
civihzecf 1 countrv except Persia, you would, besides encouraging commercial
relations with India, confer upon these subjects of the Shah a boon of the greates
ValU A third point which it would be desirable to adjust as part of a general settle
ment of frontier affairs before the departure of His Majesty the Shah from Persia lor
Europe, is that of the right of foreigners to acquire real property m Seistan m he
same way as in other provinces of Persia. This right has been restricted oy a recent
proclamation of which we have reasonable grounds to complain. It appears to us
that whatever rights are allowed to Russian or Turkish subjects m the provinces
bordering upon their respective countries, for instance, Ghilan, Azerbaijan, Kur
distan, and Arabistan, should he equally allowed to British subjects m Seistan and
Beluchistan which border upon India, and that any attempt to deprive them ot the
equality of treatment which they enjoy under our Commercial Treaty, on the ground
that the land in Seistan, most of which is desert, belongs to the State, and not to
private owners, may be justly objected to by His Majesty’s Government as unfriendly.
The Persian Government, which three years ago gave a Russian Road Company the
rjo-ht to expropriate the owners of lands of all description in Azarbaijan all along the
Julfa—Tabreez—Tehran road, and this notwithstanding the tact that such a procedure
is not authorized by the religious law, cannot justly refuse to Indian traders the right
of acquiring house property in Seistan for their business there. The one is a border
province as well as the other. ..
As it appears very desirable that an understanding on all these questions should
be come to before the Shah’s departure, which I learn unofficially is to take place in
the course of the present month, so that His Majesty may not be troubled during
his journey in Europe by complications and difficulties on the Indian frontier, I
would ask your Highness to give me in writing a reply to these various suggestions
and proposals at your earliest convenience, so that the necessary instructions may
be dispatched as soon as possible to the Representatives on the spot ol oui respective
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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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