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Coll 28/28A ‘Persia: Perso-Baluchistan frontier; demarcation near Mirjawa [mostly copies of papers on 28/28]’ [‎39r] (77/572)

The record is made up of 1 file (285 folios). It was created in 25 Apr 1924-12 Sep 1935. 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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Letter from the Surveyor General of India, No. 263-T-, dated Simla, the
20th June 1932.
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Captain Bomtord, B.E., Survey of India on the work carried out by him.
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Sbcbet letter from Captain G. Bomford, B.E., in-charge Perso-Baluch
Bgcndart Party, Survey of India, to the Surveyor General of India
No. 240 of 7th June 1932.
I have the honour to submit the following report of my proceedings in con
nection with the Perso-Baluch boundary between Pillar 11 and the Koh-i-M&lik
Siah.
(1) In accordance with proposals made in telegram No. 704 of 4th March
1932, from the Government of India, to the Secretary of State [Serial No. (81)1,
I was instructed as follows :—
(а) To demarcate the boundary between the watershed of the Mirjawa
Koh and the junction of the Tahlab and Mirjawa rivers, on the basis of the
Holdich line, if agreement with the Persian representative /should be found
possible.
(б) To extend the demarcation to the Koh-i-Malik Siah, if the Persians
should so wish.
(2) As reported in my telegram No. 208 of 13th March 1932, to the Hon’ble
the Agent to the Governor General in Baluchistan [Serial No. (114)], I met
the Persian representative, Sartip Abdul Razzaq Khan, at Mirjawa on 13th
March 1932, who informed that he was not authorised to demarcate, and that
the Persian Government at present wished to confine Iheir operations solely
to making a map of the area in which the boundary lies. I therefore proposed *
to do the same, and have done so. •
(3) The area which I have surveyed is shown on the attached Map No. X
(Survey of India sheet No. 30, Scale 1 : 1,000,000). It is a" strip 15 to 5) miles
wide from Pillar 11 to the Koh-i-Malik Siah through the centre of which the
boundary runs. The scale of survey is 4 miles to one inch. I have also made
a small map of the immediate neighbourhood of Mirjawa on the scale of 211
inches to one mile.
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(4) The Persian survey has been started on the larger scale of 1 : 100,000
(about II miles to one inch), and has not progressed very well. The . area
covered up to 11th May 1932 is also shown on Map No. I. In flat ground the
Persian map has a satisfactory appearance, but the Persian surveyors do not
know how to draw hills, and up to 11th May 1932 they were hardly attempting
to make a serious map of the hill areas. Sartip Abdul Razzaq expressed the
intention of completing the whole remaining area between Mirjawa and Koh-i-
Malik Siah during the last three weeks of May, but he will certainly not have
been able to do so with any fidelity. I presume that he was relying on copying
our old degree sheets, or our new map, if I send it to him before he has to
submit his map to the Persian Government. (As authorised in Hon’ble Agent
to the Governor General in Baluchistan’s No. 316-S. of 5th May 1932) [See
Serial Nos. (129) and (132)].
He expects to recess in Tehran this summer, or possibly to work on the
Turkish frontier, and to return to Baluchistan next winter to complete his
survey down to Pillar 11.
(5) I have had no discussion with Sartip Abdul Razzaq on the subject of
where the boundary should lie, but as I have had the opportunity of seeing the
ground and considering the subject for some time, I submit my opinion in the
attached appendix.
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Photographic reproductions of letters, memoranda, printed copies of correspondence and maps, relating to the demarcation of the border between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan (in present-day Pakistan) around the town of Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh]. The majority of the file’s papers are duplicates of material in the file Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3425).

Correspondence dating between 1924 and 1935 comprises the first part of the file (ff 2-153). The second part of the file is preceded by a cover slip attached to folio 154, which reads: ‘Collection ‘B’’. Papers in this part of the file (ff 154-286) comprise copies of correspondence dating between 1871 and 1912. Three of the file’s thirteen maps (f 223, f 224, f 242) are not duplicates of maps included IOR/L/PS/12/3425.

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1 file (285 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 286; 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.

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Coll 28/28A ‘Persia: Perso-Baluchistan frontier; demarcation near Mirjawa [mostly copies of papers on 28/28]’ [‎39r] (77/572), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3425A, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100042214843.0x00004e> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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