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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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quietly, owing to the strict surveillance over all exports and imports by Belgian
officers in the Customs Department, it was impossible to entertain the idea of his
taking mules to India without.full authority from the Persian Government. Appli
cation was therefore made to His Britannic Majesty’s Minister at Tehran for
leave to export mules.
Mule export.from Persia is as far as I know prohibited.
I made a present to the Naiur-ud-Dowlah, the Governor of Khorasan of an
English saddle, and a gun.
The Governor has been very friendly with us, and has in many uays safe
guarded our interests. 1
In private conversations he assures me of the hold the Russians have crot in
Persia through the Sadr-i-Azim, who is now completely in their hands.
The Naiur-ud-DowIah is not in the least afraid of the Russian Consul-Genera 1
r ere ’ji - e l atter warned him at a private interview that if he continued to be so
friendly with the English, he would be turned out of the Governorship.
I have, on the other hand, told the Naiur-ud-Dowlah that he will have our
support against intrigues.
Mahomed Akram Khan, the caravanbashi, who came to Meshed with the
Patna INawabs, gave them a great deal of trouble on the way, black mailing them
at every turn. This man went to Quetta with a caravan belonging to Seth Sulei
man, and gave a great deal of trouble. He spread bad reports about the route
I beheve he was in the pay of Mr. Miller, and brought him information.
Inrk ? n hlS arri ^ al he . r ^ 1 ! nformed the Governor about him, and asked him to
rrrnnHpH T ^ H h,m , ° r f mo y in g British subjects. T he Governor at once
complied, he now understands whom it is best to serve. Such acts have a orear
effect on the Persians and on the Russians too great
This shows how little the Governor has cared for Russian threats forth*
have made a great point of preventing the burial of this threatS ' for the V
British subjects have been registered here since May, 86
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that 'hrtftfafelfhettVsetbluleLTnTh t0 the ^ U2ar . in Bir iand
had not actually heard that there was any difficuhv^here t' S H debtS ; '
the Karguzar in Birjand, who is in Rn^ian J hU 6 ’ bU , 1 wisll ed to show
here The Meshed Karguzar complied with mv^ren ^ ^ plent T of power
wffiich he gave to me, in his own hZd-wriUnJ my ret,UeSt ’ and Wrote the OT der
Mr Castaigne with whom I am on intimate terms is still u
about the conduct of Mr. Molitor in going to stav with IU u- mUch exerc >sed
him again fresh orders that all cusfoms a— Mr c M,ller - has sent
with the approval of Major Bern, that when Mr MolitoVvi^uHor^l ' 0 be , d ° ne
Indian frontier, he is to go if nossihle umk iv/r • „ s,ts Horn uk, and the
also that Mr. Miller has nofhing to do with the^uston^""^ He haS Warned him
trade there, and that British subjects are on no 0r even with
Molitor in the Russian Consulate. ccount to be received by M r .
It will be interesting to see the result of these s*v*r»
orders. 01 tnese sever e censures, and strict
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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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- Title
- '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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