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‘Seistan Persia & Seistan’ [29v] (63/617)
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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Kushki with ill*cone
occurred in his bearing,
distrust
as marked
i’rom
as
that day, however, a change
„„ marKe(l ptoiiing; henceforth, he enlisted
- , ’ and X hate nothing but praise tor his con-
himself unreservedly k V, t0 the extent of Its. 1,54, t39-lo-0 has
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add that the revival of trade is
shops in Nushki.
. . ., honefits which the abolition of
7. In addition r | ts fcra 4 e by placing the patronage of a locil
has conferred on the distri , enabled me to adjust a long outatanding
Levy service in m y factions which of late years had
feud between two of the aad had led to more than one out-
S- SStr mfto establish a succession of small
dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
betweL Nushki a,id' <n, , at 3°“
Nushki and at Saki Muhammad. Shah and Yadgarchah bb^ and do,
mdes respectively, from Dalbandin, which answer the double purpose of
safe uarding the caravan route and maintaining uninterrupted communication,
ifor these posts, small but adequate
dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
chaukis are in course of erection, by
which their comfort and welfare will be permanently secured. . lo the erection
of these chaukis, 1 attach no little importance: for the existence at every
few miles of posts, small though they be, held by Government sowars, brings
home to such traders as traverse the route for the first time a feeling of
security not easily over rated.
8. With the final settlement of the country and with the erection at
Nushki of a tham, a small trading bazaar will quickly arise. Eager enquiries
have more than once been addressed to me as to when a tliana will be erected,
and on my enquiring the reason for the questioner’s anxiety for such a building,
the answer has been that be proposed moving to Nushki as offering a better
base for conducting bis business.
9. Up to Dalbandin, I had not thus to indent on my Quetta-raised
Levies ; bere I proposed stationing my first tbana, and this was quickly
arranged. Leaving with the L’hauadar instructions to guide him in his-
dealings with Natives and caravans, and halting only sufficient time to
enlist such local Baluch aa were requisite to bring the post up to its full Levy
strength, and impressing on the Thanadar the imperative necessity for
starting work on this thana at once, I hurried on to Galachah. I may say
here that, on my return, I found a tine roomy thana not only finished
but in actual occupation, a building whose construction reflects great credit
on the energy and industry of the post.
10: Of Gaxachah, 1 will say but little, as it has since been abandoned
or reasons presently to be stated. The steps I had taken at Dalbandin
were hare^ repeat *1 wffh the exception that Sir Nauroz Khan’s action in
tilling m the district wells had instilled such fear into the few remaining inha-
* f i U1 1 encmn ere t iat it was only after repeated assurances of protection,
Tomaklai'tolXTrvipe. 111 ' 101 ^ patien0e * that 1 P re ' railed on a
without il'? 13th Ffihluar .'’> I reached Amirchah
a well filled in flush with u/e vr^ uf ^At AmRCHAn X l ' Cn ?P elled *? re -°P en
r: a S y ‘ c —
fraROHAH 7 S P ^ ’ <>nl ?- 8 a ^ & aueh a c-omraaoding position.
route and is of S steS 0 ' 1 , of *¥ Kharan aad d irec D Nushki
Koh-i-Sultan range, to the e’vIu-etnHtion 0 S i ^ k doeS th * €ntir t
cause to allude. Added tr> fLio -f ‘ ^ °^. ° F which I have already had
gives it a climate by no m^-d, 8 nnh^miV^ 8 ' th *i ^ awo " l>di ?8 P 1 ^
months. A couple of well, were quicklv re^on’ne 1 tl t e , , h » tteSt
i ■ op ne l, nut the water Yielded wa&
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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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- Title
- ‘Seistan Persia & Seistan’
- Pages
- 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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