'PLAN TO ILLUSTRATE ROUTES TAKEN BY ARMS CARAVANS BETWEEN THE MAKRAN COAST and the AFGHAN BORDER'
IOR/L/PS/20/10, f 17
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The record is made up of 1 map. It was created in Aug 1908. 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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The map shows routes taken by arms caravans between the Makran Coast and the Afghan border during 1907-08, and is used to accompany notes on the illicit trade of arms and ammunition in the region.
It also illustrates the general directions followed by arms caravans as reported by Captain McConaghey in a letter to the Government of India, dated 15 June 1906, and notes telegraph lines, and demarcated and undemarcated boundaries.
Compiled by Claud Hamilton Griffith Black, Division of Chief of Staff from reports furnished by Consuls.
Drawn in Simla Drawing Office Survey of India.
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- 1 map
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- Scale
- Scale 1:2,028,000
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 34° 36' 0" N, 55° 59' 24" E
Top-right: 34° 36' 0" N, 67° 40' 48" E
Bottom-left: 24° 36' 36" N, 55° 59' 24" E
Bottom-right: 24° 36' 36" N, 67° 40' 48" E - It is part of
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Materials: Printed on paper
Dimensions: 680 x 617mm, on sheet 777 x 677mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/20/10, f 17
- Date(s)
- Aug 1908 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/L/PS/20/10, f 17
- Title
- 'PLAN TO ILLUSTRATE ROUTES TAKEN BY ARMS CARAVANS BETWEEN THE MAKRAN COAST and the AFGHAN BORDER'
- Pages
- 17r:17v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence