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The record is made up of 1 file (388 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1899-4 Apr 1904. 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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These districts are geographically separate from Kirman, with which they have
po concern they are separated by a great desert from Kirman, and there
1S ri^ 0 P ft Ul com . mun * ca ^ 0 . n with Kirman across the desert. The argument
adduced by Captain Sykes is that the trade route passes through both districts
rom _andar Abbas. This trade route runs to Meshed and beyond, and if Captain
v y es argument is applicable, the whole of Eastern Persia from the Russian
rentier to the Sea should be included in one Consulate-General.
. 7 ' ^ or ,j e , r t0 wor ^ his.district Captain Sykes urges that it is essential
a . e s ould have a well paid agent at Kirman. It does not seem to me that
r i 15 ? v eSSa,ry, i WOuld P ro P ose that Captain Sykes should return to Kirman.
Colonel late made recommendations as to this part of Persia also, but as it is
beyond my jurisdiction, I do not propose to further consider the matter. Seistan
however, is in this Consulate General, and it does not appear to me advisable to
continue the present arrangement according to which Captain Sykes is under me
as regards Seistan and independent of me with respect to everything else. With
respect to Seistan he corresponds direct with the Secretary of State for Foreign
Anairs. I his arrangement was only a temporary one, as it was intended that
• Telegram No 31, from Minister, dated 24th substantive arrangements* should be made
October)! 8 , 8 , to Consul-General, Meshed (co Py afterwards, whether a Consulate is estab-
tnmpthofir , r . . hshed by Russia or not in Seistan, it seems
Officer h AntI ?h t V t a , ConSuI ln Kamand Seistan, he will require a Medical
the wS P / S J fl haS T® ?J an once asked for one and ma hes the request
Meriffi 1 Offi herewith. If we do not maintain a Consul there, still a
Medical Officer is required in any case. Plague may at any time break out ■ and
1 we do not establish plague observation posts, the Russians will. They have a
doctor and two assistants at both Karez and Turbat-i-Haidari, with a lady doctor
all timI a s to r e P a Kr a t, nd C0ssacks under Russian Military Officers ready at
other wet f 3 COrd ° n t0 Pre n. the passa 2 e of a11 Pe rso "s. traders 7 or
easily on tbe nlca ? fuff™™? B,rjand and Seistan the Russia >^ could
a y ' P f lea of establishing plague observation posts gain a predominant
position there from which we could not dislodge them. This could be obv atod
by the presence of a British Medical Officer, 8 with two Hospital Assistanlf l
J, p'ul" did hv 0 U ' < i‘! r C °d mmend th iV he P r °P°sal made
, r n , J . , ' • b y my predecessor Colonel Yater shnulrl
be followed, and that this officer should be my Assistant. The settlement of
political affairs and cases arising out of trade could be placed in his h“ to
has also to be borne in mind that if we maintain a Consular Officer in Kain and
Seistan before Russia has appointed one, Russia will probably be obliged to
appoint one as a counterbalance. If W e appoint a Medical Officer he S would
counterbalance the Russian Officers already at Turbat-i-Haidari and Karez
mendations- theS6 ClrcUmStances 1 would be 2 make the following r'ecom-
^ n ai ^ dependent Con suIate should not be created in Seistan and
(6) Captain Sykes should return to Kirman.
(c) A Medical Officer for medical and political work should be an.
pointed to Kain and Seistan as Assistant to the A°-ent to the
Governor-General and Consul-General, Meshed. ' ' “
9 ; In my letter No. 103 of June 24th, I have already pointed out tW
Captain Sykes has on several occasions expressed his opinion that our nlto
and interests in Kain and Seistan could be guarded by the occasional vLrof an
No. 6, dated Duruksh, the 7 th July 1899 .
From—P. Molesworth Sykes,
To—Sir Mortimer Durand, K.C.S.I., etc.
. In accordance with your instructions that I should
limits of my consular district, I would venture to request thatohe t0 ‘4
Kain form a portion of it, as at the present time q " 1 th province of
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The file contains papers relating to Seistan [Sistan] and Persia [Iran].
The file includes printed copies of despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorasan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, with enclosed despatches from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Marquis of Salisbury). Skyes’s despatches regard matters including: Seistan; trade routes into South-East Persia; the boundary between Persia and Afghanistan, in relation to the River Helmund [Helmand] changing its course (in despatch No. 5, which includes four sketch maps, folios 12, 13, 14 and 15); Sykes’s journey to Birjand (in despatch No. 7, which includes a sketch map on folio 20); the ruling family of Kain, which also governed Seistan, Tabbas and Tun; Sykes’s journey from Seistan to Kerman [Kirman] (in despatch No. 11, which includes a sketch map); and the direct Kerman-Quetta caravan trade that Sykes was trying to establish.
The file also includes copies of the following papers:
- A despatch from Temple to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing a letter from Temple to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (HM Minister, Tehran), with copies of enclosures, regarding the establishment of a Seistan and Kain consulate
- A letter from Charles Edward Pitman, Director General of Telegraphs, to the Secretary to the Government of India Public Works Department, enclosing a copy of a ‘Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier’ by H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department, which includes six photographs of views along the route [Mss Eur F111/352, f 52; Mss Eur F111/352, f 53; Mss Eur F111/352, f 54; Mss Eur F111/352, f 55; Mss Eur F111/352, f 56; and Mss Eur F111/352, f 57], and a map showing the proposed route of the telegraph line [Mss Eur F111/352, f 59]
- Letters from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing copies of the diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai, for the weeks ending 16 February, 28 February, and 8 March 1900
- Diary No. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Major-General George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, HM Consul for Seistan (Diary No. 6 includes a sketch map, folio 86)
- A copy of a ‘Report on Reconnaissances Made while Attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission’ by W A Johns, Deputy Consulting Engineer for Railways, Bombay
- A copy of the report ‘Notes on Persian Seistan’, compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, and issued by the Government of India Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General’s Department
- Two copies of map signed by Plunkett titled ‘Persian Seistan-Cultivated Area’ [Mss Eur F111/352, f 270]
- A booklet entitled ‘Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman.’
- Printed copies of letters from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), relating to the maintenance of British interests in Persia, dated 4 September 1899 and 7 November 1901 (the former with an enclosure of a minute by the Viceroy on Seistan).
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- 1 file (388 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear 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 inside back cover with 390; 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. The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 301A
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- 'Seistan'
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- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 58r:58v, 60r:112r, 113r:125v, 147r:218r, 218r, 219r:269v, 271r:301v, 301Ar, 301Av, 302r:388v, 389v:390r, 389r, back
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