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Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land' [20r] (39/443)
The record is made up of 1 file (220 folios). It was created in 19 Mar 1931-1 Feb 1941. It was written in English and French. 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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affairs* The most recent maps of the Survey of India
covering Seistan do not contain this information* The
topographical 1" to 4 miles maps are merely hatched and
has
not contoured, as the field data gangaiyxkafcKhafltxami/not been
collected. Apart from the topographical maps there only
exist the geographical maps of scale 16 H to 1 mile, on which
contours are at great intervals and of no value for details,
and the old maps of Seistan made by Colonel McMahon in 1903
to a scale of 1" to 1 mile, which are not contoured and only
embrace a small area of the delta entering the Hamun-i-Zabari
(c) On purely technical gu grounds there is no object
ion to a copy of the report being given to the Iranian
Government, but I would draw attention to Chapter XI wherein
the existence of coal and petroleum in Baluchistan is
mentioned. This is not even referred to in the ubiquitously
circulated Statistical Year Book of the World Bower Conferen
ce 1938* The importance of the maps and sections I have
already dealt with. Other points which should be considered
are the accounts of the equipment needed in the shape of
water carrying utensils, the fuel question, and the
descriptions of the conditions of communications at various
seasons of the year. These latter conditions, it is
true, are indicated in the topographical maps of the Survey
of India to which I have already made reference.
I feel that much useful advice ggratl could be given
regarding foild control on the Helmand River by an engineer
visiting Seistan.
Sd/- A.R.B. Edgecombe,
Secretary, <
Central Board of Irrigation.
7*3.^ -
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The file concerns the sale of land belonging to the Seistan and Kain (Zabul) Consulate, and reports on the flood in Seistan, causing damages to the Vice-Consulate at Zabul.
The file contains:
- proposed sale of land situated outside the compound of Seistan Consulate, on which a building was erected in 1931, by Mohamed Ali & Brothers
- insolvency of Mohamed Ali & Brothers, not paying rent for the building
- negotiations between Mohamed Ali & Brothers, interested in buying the building or receiving a sum on the sale, and the Government of India, interested in selling the building to others
- sketch representing the land leased in 1906 to Mohamed Ali & Brothers (f 80)
- negotiations to sell the land to the Afghan Government, in 1937
- proposal to offer the property to the Iranian Government, in exchange for freehold rights over the land occupied by the Zahedan Vice-Consulate, in 1938
- reports of the 1939-40 floods of the rivers Naurab, Hermand and Shela, surrounding Zabul, with sketch (f 48). The floods affected ground and building of the Zabul Consulate. Damages to bridges, roads and telegraph poles in Seistan are also reported
- report on the river Helmand's changing delta; sketch representing Oscillations of Helmand 1760-1940 (f 25)
- sketch representing Mouth of the Nuriab (f 14).
The file is composed of correspondence between the British Consulate at Seistan and Kain, the British Legation at Tehran, the Foreign Office, the British Consulate at Khorasan, 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 Government of India, and Mohamed Ali & Brothers.
There is a letter in French, from the Afghan Legation at Tehran.
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- 1 file (220 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 221; 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3601
- Title
- Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 15r:24v, 26r:47v, 49r:71v, 73r:98v, 100r:158v, 162r:219v, 220v:221v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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