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'Collection of journals and reports received from Captain the Hon G C Napier, Bengal Staff Corps, on special duty in Persia, 1874. Includes revised index. London: HMSO, 1876' [6r] (15/409)
The record is made up of 1 volume (201 folios). It was created in 1876. 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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On the 7th February 1874, Mr. Taylour Thomson, Her
Majesty’s Minister at Teheran reported that a successful raid had
been made by the Persian Governor of Khaff on Herat territory,
and he proposed that a
native agent
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
should be sent from Meshed,
in conjunction with an agent of the Persian Government to as
certain on the spot the true state of the case, with a view to obtain
restitution of the plunder, if proved[to be Afghan property. Upon
the suggestion of the Government of India it was eventually
decided to employ a European Officer instead of a
Native Agent
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
,
and Captain the Hon. G. Napier, of the Bengal Staff Corps was
ordered by that Government to proceed to Teheran and report
himself to Her Majesty’s Minister at that Court for special duty.
That duty was primarily to report upon the circumstances of the
raid made upon Herat from Khaff, but he was also instructed to
embrace the opportunity of his journey to Khaff to obtain all
available information on the present condition of the Persian
frontier ; the feelings between the Persians and Afghans on either
side of the border; the condition of the Turkoman tribes; the
effect of the late arbitration in regard to the Seistan boundary ;
and on similar matters of interest.
Captain Napier arrived at Teheran on the 4th June 1874, and
started for Meshed on the 3rd July. He reached that place on
the 10th August, commenced his return journey via Asterabad,
on the 21st October (having spent a portion of the intervening
time in a visit to Kelat, a district in the mountains north of
Meshed), and arrived once more at Teheran on the 21st December
1874. The journals and reports which follow, are those sub
mitted from time to time by Captain Napier to the Government of
India, narrating the various points of information which he acquired
on his journey.
Political and Secret Department.
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.
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1st January 1876.
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(11966.)
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Reprint of Collection of journals and reports received from Captain the Hon. G C Napier, Bengal Staff Corps, on special duty in Persia. 1874, with a revised index at pp 348-355 (folios 181-185). A copy of the original index is present at folios 186-200.
A letter from the Under Secretary of State for India to the Under Secretary of State for War has been pasted into the front of the volume (folios 2-3), noting that two copies of the revised version have been forwarded for the use of the Intelligence Department.
The volume contains ten documents written by George Campbell Napier, and compiled by the Political and Secret Department of 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. . The documents included are as follows:
1. Report of the proceedings in regard to the Khaff [Khvāf] raid;
2. Diary kept during tour in Khorassan [Razavi Khorasan];
3. Observations on the topography of the Eastern Alburz tract, with notices on a few places of interest on the Persian Border;
4. Memorandum on the condition and external relations of the Turkoman tribes of Merve [Mary];
5. Reports on events in Herat and Turkistan. Diary for March 1875;
6. Report on the present situation in Seistan [Sīstān] in relation to late arbitration;
7. Report on the Perso-Afghan border;
8. Notes on the political condition of the population of Eastern Khorassan;
9. Notes on the condition of the districts, chiefships, and tribes of the north-eastern frontier of Persia;
10. Memorandum on the relations of Russia and Persia with the Turkoman tribes of the Attrek Frontier.
At the back of the volume (folio 201) is a fold-out map of the northern frontier of Khorassan, with parts of Irak [Iraq] and Mazandaran [Māzandarān].
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- 1 volume (201 folios)
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A table of contents can be found at folio 5v.
The revised index is found at folios 181-185; a copy of the original index is also present at folios 186-200.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 203; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Collection of journals and reports received from Captain the Hon G C Napier, Bengal Staff Corps, on special duty in Persia, 1874. Includes revised index. London: HMSO, 1876'
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