File 1377/1905 Pt 1 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Frontier Demarcation'

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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).

Extent and format

1 item (93 folios)

It is part of

File 1377/1905 Pt 1-2 'Perso-Baluch Frontier'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/79

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/79/1

Former external reference(s)

P 1377/1905 Pt 1

History of this record

Date(s)

Nov 1904-Oct 1921 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Water resources

Places

Mirjawar

People & organisations

HM Ambassador to IranBritish Commissioner, Seistan Arbitration CommitteeGovernment of India, Foreign and Political DepartmentAgent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan

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