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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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7. Saindak, Kirtaka and Kacha have all springs or wells of drinkable water
Grass and firewood are also plentiful, and all that is required is the location of
permanent Baluch settlements at each place to provide transport and supplies.
The road between Kirtaka and Kacha requires opening out in the narrow
parts.
8. Ziarat-i-Piran.
There are ruins and signs of former cultivation here with good water and
plenty of grass and firewood. The location of a Baluch settlement here does not
seem a question of great difficulty, and cultivation should be encouraged.
9. I may mention that the road between Kacha and Ziarat-i-Piran passes
through Persian territory at a place called Bug, 9 miles from Ziarat-i-Piran. The
latter Ziarat too is exactly on the frontier. The Persians have no post on this
frontier, and no objection is taken to caravans passing through, but how the
boundary line came to be drawn through here, I do not know.
It ought to have followed the tops of the hills just above ; but so far as
I know, this part of the frontier was not visited by the Commissioners.
Possibly some chance of rectifying this and of acquiring Bug may occur
later on and should not be lost sight of.
10. Koh-i-Malik Siah has good water and plenty of grass and firewood.
All that is wanted is a village to furnish camels for transport and supplies. This
is the end of the British section of the road. There is a map of this route
attached to Major Brazier-Creagh’s report on Seistan,
11. With regard to the remaining sections in Persian territory from Neh to
Koh-i-Malik Siah the stages are as follows: —
Neh.
Miles.
Hauz-i-Gudar-i-Zard
Mad eh
Safidaba
Poghi
Sangar-i-Mir Alam Khan
Siah-ab
Gumbad-i-Shelah
Hurmuk
Robat-i-Koh-i-Malik Siah
13
21
15
19
'9
20
*4
22
18
1 OTAL 161
M ,d 3 - A P ern ?f" ent , British C ^sular officer will, I hope, be appointed to Seistan
No lung can well be done to improve the road till we have him there ; but when
he is appointed, I would suggest that the following notes be communicated to
him with a view to h,s using his influence to effect the necessary improvement °
are inkaitf^o^ 66 ^ ^dar-hZard, Madeh and Safidaba
At the first, water is only procurable when the tank has been filled by rain.
.. “ h f the ruins 0 / a vil,a s e and a Kanat of water. All that is reauired
there is the clearing out of the Kanat and the settling down of some villagers to
h 4 af'^l S a a s1t P S 0 a V fida e b S a UPP h eS ‘ 0 Gra ^ a " d are pfentiful
nere as well as at oahdaba, where water is also procurable from a spring
1 J 4 ' f 3 ® 211 ' 1S situated on a bare plain and nothing can be done there Water
and supplies must always be carried from the nrevions si™ OI „i ,, VVater
is to plant a village at Safidaba and Sano-ar-i-Mir Alam K?ia’n TV t t' ng
15. Siah-ab and Gumbad-i-Shelah.
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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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