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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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or Mi ! 0 IT TnH r i e k CheS me ° f any s . us P icions being aroused regarding Sarhad
with anyone. ^ 1 H neVef mentl0ned ‘he point or discussed that border
mv nUrl'N^^f J, S n ° W 7 er l hotanda stron g hot wind blows every day. In
mr r 'f L_' 3 , f ° r P enod 9th to 22nd April I reported that the Bad-i-Sadobist
this noint that’ ? "g 5 ^ 6 ' ? erslan statements are so conflicting on
like t P he he? ■ a ,u h f rd t0 find ou ‘ the troth. The present hot wind which is
he »•„? ,! Wlnds ha S ' Ve T • 0ver Ra iP u tana and Central India is most probably
the wind always mentioned m connection with the climate of Seistan.
tent* Near n ? the P art y. are safely sheltered in mud huts now. To have lived in
t , ?, u , hav k e been ‘^possible. The few tents standing are much torn and
only held down by ropes while the heat in them is more that even the native of
inaia can stand.
1 r^ n ^ me u anXie ^ about tbe cavalr y horses who are standing out in the
sun not that the heat affects them so much, but at night the poor beasts get no
rest from the mosquitoes which raise great lumps on their bodies. The Persians
cover their horses up in a sheet and have a thick namdah to protect the horse
trom the sun s rays.
that WC ha * Ve a large savin S over th e allotment for ration of men and
horses and am arranging te spend about Rs. 10 on each horse to provide them
with coverings similar to those used by the Persians.
Later on the fly of Seistan attacks the horses even worse than the mosqui-
oes an i would be impossible to see them suffer as they would without giving
them something to alleviate their distress.
The health of the camp is excellent and all are in good spirits.
Dated Nusratbad;
F/ie i$tk June I goo
AD^
E. CHENEVIX-TRENCH, Major
Her Britannic Majesty's Consul,
Seistan.
G. C. Bress, Simla.--No, 621 F. D.—27-7-X500—^1.
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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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- Mss Eur F111/352
- Title
- 'Seistan'
- Pages
- 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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