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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' [‎7r] (17/409)

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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JOURNALS AND REPORTS.
No. 1.
Report of Proceedings in regard to the Khaff Raid.
No. 11, dated Meshed, 19th August 1874.
Ffom—Captain the Hon. Gh C. Napier,^ on special duty in
Persia, to C. U. Aitchison, Esq., C.S.I., Secretary to the
Government of India, Foreign Department.
I have the honor to enclose a copy of a letter which I have
addressed to His Excellency W. T. Thomson, Her Majesty’s
Minister, Teheran, giving such information regarding the KhafF
raid as I have been able to obtain.
It will be seen from the enclosure that the Persian authorities
have a very decided objection to any close inquiry into the
circumstances of the raid. I have, therefore, for reasons noted
in the inclosure, deferred the prosecution of my journey to Khaff,
pending receipt of further instructions from Mr. Thomson.
The main objection raised by His Excellency the Governor-
General of Khorassan to my visit to Khaff was, that it was
unadvisable to press inquiry into a matter which had been for
some months settled to the satisfaction of both parties. This
objection has weight only in so far as it is true that the parties
are really satisfied and not merely silent or quiescent until such
time as opportunity may offer for retaliation or prosecution by
other means of dormant claims, and I have as yet heard no
evidence of such satisfaction.
The Afghans appear to have got back only a moiety of the
property plundered from them, and though the Ruler of Herat
may be satisfied or may make no further complaint, the owners of
the property will not share in that satisfaction and will certainly
only await a fair opportunity for righting themselves.^
The Persian authorities allege that the raid by their people was
made in retaliation of a previous Afghan raid, of which however
I have as yet been able to obtain no independent proof. It is
said that a body of 900 Turkomans and Afghans carried off a
number of sheep from the Khaff plain. In the present or rather
the normal condition of the border, according to Persian accounts,
such a raid would be a very probable occurrence, and it would
go so far to justify a retaliation that one is at a loss to understand
the extreme anxiety of the authorities on the border to prevent
inquiry. A reprisal made under such circumstances would hardly
call for more than explanation ; but the Persian authorities have
not only failed to furnish me with full information and opposed
mv prosecuting the inquiry on the spot, they have also taken

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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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