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‘Seistan Persia & Seistan’ [13r] (30/617)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (301 folios). It was created in 22 Jun 1896-3 Mar 1900. 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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recommendations,
carried out till the
Any measures of the kind suggested could not well
.Political Assistant starts again for Nushki in October.
be
Dated Seistan, the 13th May 1897,
From—S urgeon-Major G. W. Brazier-Creagh, A.M.S.,
To—The Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan,
I have the honoui to forward, for your information and favourable trans
mission to Grovernment of India, the attached recommendations I consider it
advisable to carry out for the protection and encouragement of trade with
Seistan and Khorassan, etc.
1. That in view of the great scarcity and difficultv in obtainin 0 * supplies
either by the very poor nomad Baluchis and Kafalas en route, would strongly
recommend that each of the thanas be supplied with flour, barley, and c^hee to
be retailed at proper values to all comers.
2. Many of those I met on journey were eating roots, fungi, and grasses
consequent on famine.
Consider it advisable to send an Engineer Officer along these routes next
cold weather with some Sappers and Miners, etc., to repair and re-dig wells along
route and thus secure a proper and adequate supply of water.
In several places where long weary marches have of necessity to be made
owing to complete absence or foul supply, new wells will of necessity have to
be dug and stone built inside to prevent their falling in and guard against
surface drainage of foul nature again flowing back into wells, as camels, sheep,
etc., are watered close, and most wells are in consequence polluted and source
of sickness and disease to travellers.
3. A trough should be built with gutter leading from an elevated plat
form on which the water is raised up.
4. Iron pulleys fixed for raising the water.
5. Willow trees might with little cost or trouble be planted along water
way at thanas where there is running water, viz., Dalbandin, Sandaik, Tazgai,
etc., etc., and particularly at Bobat, our frontier outpost, where there is a good
supply of water.
6. A set of rules for the guidance of the thanadars at all stations, fixed
rates for all supplies, and above all protect the wood (trees) as much as possible,
or fuel must in time be nil. A few thousand
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
spent thus will be wisely
laid out and a judicious encouragement to traders.
7. Traders should be protected on arrival at Quetta as far as possible from
the brokers and rigged prices, and the bunniahs now at Nushki, into whose
hands several of the Jalk traders have fallen and are in debt (vide previous
reports under date 12th April 1897), should be prevented from intercepting
onward journey to Quetta.
Seistan ; | G. W. BBAZIEB-CREAGH,
The 13th April 1897, ) $urgeon»Major, A.M.S*
No. 159, dated the 6th July 1897.
From— Lieutenant F. C. Webb-Ware, Political Assistant, Chageh,
To—The First Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan.
In reply to your No. 3987, dated the 26th June 1897, forwarding certain
suggestions by Surgeon-Major Brazier-Creagh on special duty in Seistan, as
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The volumes contain papers relating to Persia [Iran], including Seistan, and the tract of land south of the Baluch-Afghan boundary between Nushki and Persia, which had become British territory following the demarcation of the Afghan-Baluch border.
The papers largely consist of printed copies of correspondence between the Governor General of India in Council (Government of India Foreign Department) and the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), and enclosed correspondence and papers.
Letters from the Governor General of India in Council to the Secretary of State for India include:
- Number 170, 16 September 1896, relating to the opening up of a trade route between Nushki and the Persian frontier, crossing the tract of British territory south of the Baluch-Afghan boundary, and the protection of the newly-demarcated frontier, with enclosed memorandum by Captain Arthur Henry McMahon, British Commissioner, Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission, containing his proposals for the management and administration of the tract and for the protection of the trade route
- Number 58, 31 March 1898, concerning the trade route between Baluchistan and Persia, including the suggestion that Consular Agents should be appointed at central points along it between Seistan and Meshed, with enclosures including a report by Lieutenant Frank Webb-Ware, Political Assistant at Chagai, on his visit to Seistan at the beginning of 1896, and the measures introduced for the development of trade between Baluchistan and Persia (which includes a blueprint map, Mss Eur F111/350, f 33)
- Number 163, 15 September 1898, forwarding copies of papers regarding the situation in Makran and Panjgur, following recent ‘disturbances’ in Makran.
The file also includes:
- Copies of Government of India Foreign Department papers numbered 40-58 relating to the Kerman Consulate and British interests in Southern Persia, including correspondence between the Government of India Foreign Department and the Secretary of State for India
- A letter from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General of India in Council, with enclosed despatch from Sir (Henry) Mortimer Durand, HM Minister at Tehran, to the Foreign Office, dated 12 February 1899, in which he gives his opinion on suggestions for the appointment of additional consular officers in Persia (this includes a map titled ‘Skeleton Map of Telegraph Lines in Persia.’ Mss Eur F111/350, f 187)
- A letter from Durand to the Secretary to the Foreign Department of the Government of India, 24 February 1899, enclosing a copy of his memorandum (with appendices) drawn up in 1895 on the situation in Persia, and the steps he proposed should be taken to improve the British position there
- Copies of a draft despatch from the Governor General of India in Council, 2 September 1899, regarding relations between Great Britain and Persia, including improving the British Political and Consular service in Persia, and the extent of the share of responsibility for Persia that should be devolved upon the Government of India, followed by printed comments upon the draft
- Copies of a minute by George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of India, on Seistan, dated 4 September 1899, including the question of a railway connection between India and Seistan
- Handwritten pencil notes by Curzon relating to Persia and the ‘Seistan Question’.
In addition to the two maps noted above, the file also includes the following maps: map of the area south of the border between Afghanistan and Baluchistan (Mss Eur F111/350, f 300); map of the area west of the border between Persia and Afghanistan (Mss Eur F111/350, f 301); and ‘Route Plan of Robat Nala’ (Mss Eur F111/350, f 302).
- Extent and format
- 2 volumes (301 folios)
- Arrangement
Most of volume A is arranged in reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume (from folios 6 to 76); volume B is arranged is rough chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: this file consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover of volume one (ff 1-150) and terminates at the inside back cover of volume two (ff 151-304); 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.
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- ‘Seistan Persia & Seistan’
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- front , back , spine, edge , head , tail, front-i, 2r:32v, 34r:62v, 64r:84r, 86r, 89r:93v, 96r:96v, 99v:100v, 101v:128v, 129v:149v, back-i, front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 152r:186v, 188r:189r, 190r:299v, 303r:304v, back-i
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