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'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎102v] (209/386)

The record is made up of 1 volume (189 folios). It was created in 1907. 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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left bank of the Helraand, thence up the river to a point a mile above the
great dam at Kohak, and finally in a straight line south-west from that
point on the river to the Koh-i-Malik Siah. The future trouble, which might
have been foreseen, from making the bed of a shifting river like the Helmand
the boundary, was since realized, and the various changes occurring in the
course of the river were made an excuse by both Persians and Afghans for over
stepping the limits laid down in the Goldsmid award. In May 1691), a dispute
arose between the Afghan officials of Chakansur and the Persian officials in
Seistan regarding the Helmand water-supply and alleged encroachments by
Persians on land, which the Afghans claimed to have been thrown by the
Helmand on to their side of the border, and complaints were made both at
Tehran and Kabul.
il. The indeterminate condition of parts of the eastern frontier of Persia
both along the Perso-Afghan boundary north of Koh-i-Malik Siah and the Perso-
Baluch boundary south of that point, was then referred to by the British Lega
tion in Tehran in reporting to the Government of India the representation
which the Persian Government had made about the alleged incursions of Afghan
cultivators and the alleged reinforcement of the troops on the Per?o-Af»han
frontier, and the question was mooted whether the Government of the Shah
should be invited to effect a general setilemert of the frontier line. The reply
of Lord Curzon’s Government in January 1901 was that the Governor-General
in Council would prefer not to move at present either in regard to the Helmand
question or in reganl to the frontier line irom Koh-i-Malik Siah to the coast.
There were five parties either directly or indirectly concerned in a re-openino* of
the Seistan boundary question, namely, the Persian Government, the Afghan
Government, the Br.tish Government, the Russian Government, and the focal
Chiefs. It seemed improbable that any settlement could be arrived at which
would not array against us the possibility of at least two, aud probably three, of
these parties. Moreover, if the British Government volunteered to intervene,
sinister intentions were certain to be suspected, and meanwhile it did not appear
that British interests were either suffering or threatened. In the circum
stances, the Governor-General in Council thought it better to leave the local
authorities to adjust the various land claims on the Seistan border between
themselves, and to wait for the day when all parties would appeal to the British
Government as the inevitable umpire.
22. In March 1901, Major Trench successfully lent his goodoTces to assist
the rn al claimants to arrive at a temporary modus and the Akhundzada
and the Hashmat-ul-Mulk engaged for both sides to refrain from making any
advances, pending the marking of the border in accordance with the Gofdsmid
map. Colonel Trench s intervention was soon followed by a request from the
Amir for a copy of General Goldsmid’s arbitration map, which was supplied
to His Highness in July 1991. The Amir, before his death, sent it to Herat,
and the Governor of Herat invited the Governor-General of Khorasan to
depute a Persian Agent to meet an Afghan representative, and settle the
boundary in accordance with the line shown on that map. In Februarv
1902 a deputation from the Akhundzada of Chakansur arrived at Isasratabad,
with letters for the Hashmat-ul-Mulk, the Karguzar of Seistan, Major
enn and, it was reported, for the Russian Consul, saving that certain Afghan
subjects had been plundered by Seistanis, and that an Afghan Commis-
sioner ad arrived with orders to meet the Persian representative and settle
tbe border. M. Miller had now begun to show considerable interest in the
course of this dispute. In July matters reached an acute stage. The Afghan
Commissioner, tired of waiting for the Persian representative and piqued at
the discourteous treatment he was receiving, occupied a village named Dost
Muhammad which was in disputed ground. M. Molitor, the Belgian Customs
o c.r, uen to the spot with a small force and threatened to disarm the
Atgnans on the plea that the importation of arms into Persia was forbidden.
On the protest being disregarded, M. Molitor with M. Miller and the Yamin-
i-Aizam visited the Seistan Governor and M. Miller ordered the latter to send
a us troops to the border to oppose the Afghans, and demanded a guard for
. 18 f ^ er f°V^ protection. He also wrote to the Governor that the Afghans were
ms i 0 a e ^ Major Benn, who had in no way interfered. The Persian troops,

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Printed at the GC [Government Central] Press, Simla.

The volume is divided into three parts: Part I (folios 5-47) containing an introduction; Part II (folios 48-125) containing a detailed account; and Part III (folios 126-188) containing despatches and correspondence connected with Part I Chapter IV ('The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', folios 28-47).

Part I gives an overview of policy and events in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region during Curzon's period as Viceroy [1899-1905], with sections on British policy in Persia; the maintenance and extension of British interests; Seistan [Sīstān]; and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Part II contains more detailed accounts of selected topics, including sections on British policy in Persia, customs and finance, quarantine, administration, communications, and British and Russian activity in Seistan. The despatches and correspondence in Part III include correspondence from the Government of India in the Foreign Department, the Secretary of State for India, and the Viceroy; addresses and speeches by Curzon; and notes of interviews between Curzon and local rulers.

Mss Eur F111/531-534 consist of four identical printed and bound volumes. However, the four volumes each show a small number of different manuscript annotations and corrections.

This volume contains manuscript additions on folios 8, 11-12, 14, 42 (a sixteen word note concerning the use by the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] of a distinctive colour [flag] for Kuwait shipping), and 62-66.

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1 volume (189 folios)
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The volume contains a list of Parts I-III on folio 4; a table of contents of Part I on folio 6; a table of contents of Part II on folio 49; and a table of contents of Part III on folios 127-129, which gives a reference to the paragraph of Part I Chapter IV that the despatch or correspondence is intended to illustrate.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 191; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎102v] (209/386), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/534, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100070118030.0x00000a> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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