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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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Diary No. 12 of Major G. Chenevix-Trench, Her Britannic Majesty s
Consul for Seistan, from 16th August to 31st August 1900.
The precautions taken against the spread of glanders among the cavalry
horses mentioned in my last diary proved sufficient to check the disease. No
further cases have occurred and the horses have returned to their lines.
i6th August .—The usual gymkhana took place. For the first t' me
Surhang attended. He has always been anxious to do this, but has retrained as
his father is said to have considered it would show too much attachment to the
British cause. He used in this instance the occasion of making a return call as
an opportunity to see the sports.
ijth August.— Sartip Mir Mausum Khan arrived from Birjand. The
people of the country are all pleased at his appearance on the scene. . He com
mands universal loyalty except from
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Pardil Khan, and h.s immediate
following, who hears the eventual return to power in Seistan of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Syad Khan
Naroi-Baluch, through the attachment to the latter s cause of the Saitip.
The past history of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Svad Khan has been fully narrated by me in a
note forwarded with my No. 108 of 201'h August. Ihe Amir Ka hmut-ul-Mulk
is said to be glad to have the Sartip back in Seistan, for he did not
influenced bv the Shawkat-ul-Mulk, whom he consideis to be not too tnend'y to
wards himself. The Amir hopes to arrange amicably the differences between
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Syad Khan and
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Purdil Khan, and then desires to have Seistan to
be ruled by the Sartip, while he and the Surhang visit Birjand and possibly ien-
ran, with a view to again being reinstated in 1 abas.
20th August .—Received a visit from Mustophi Khalik Khan, who talked
about the revenue demand, and said he hoped the Amir would agree to the terms
ordered from Tehran.
21st August .—The Rusian Vice-Consul has a Mirza from Meshed as an.
attache. This man is most unpopalar here, and does a great deal of harm to the
Russian cause. He affects an overbearing manner and demands obser\ances
of etiquette, he is in no way entitled to. He paid a visit to the Amir and com
plained openly that while the Russian Vice-Consul was treated with scant
courtesy, messengers were sent far and wide for the Fnglish Consul when he
represented that the water channels supplying his camp were running low.
Mr. Miller a few days previously remarked to me that it was the duty of the
Sartip to call on the Consuls first, and asked me what I thought. At the time I
had not given the matter any consideration, and said so. I found out later that
the orders of the Russian Government to their Consuls in Persia were that the
Persian Sardars, not being ruling chiefs, should invariably call first on the Rus
sian representative, an order no doubt easily enforced in Northern Persia. On
enquiring into the etiquette of calling, I found that among equals it was custom
ary for the first arrived to call on the later arrivals. And as I had when l came
called on the Amir first and his son the Surhang, I called in the same manner on
tne Sartip Mir Mausum Khan.
My visit was a terrible blow to Mr. Miller for seeing that I am his senior, it
quite stopped all chance of the Sartip making the first call on him, and as the
Russian Consul could not go against the orders of his Government the matter had
to be referred to Tehran. In the meanwhile no communication between Mr.
Miller and the Sartip can exist.
Mr. Miller in conversation with me later said that having to go by the orders
of his Government had been a serious blow to his position here, for he could not
expect any answer from his Government before two months and when he did
receive orders, he was afraid his action would not be supported, and that he would
be ordered to call, which would in the circumstances be a great loss of dignity.
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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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- 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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