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‘Seistan Persia & Seistan’ [132v] (269/617)
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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No. 54A.
Telegram, No. 282, dated Quetta, the 4th July 1898.
From—The Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan,
To—The Foreign Secretary, Simla.
Tour telegram 1007 E.-A., July first. The figure for financial year
1897-98 is five
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
ninety-eight thousand six hundred and thirty. JNo
returns were kept prior to February 1897.
/
No. 54B.
Extract J'ro'ci the Diary of the ^Political Assistant, Chagch, for the week
ending 31s£ May 1898.
******
2. I am pleased to report that Nushki import and export returns for the
first four months of the current year amount to the sum of Us. 3,11,000.
The
kafila
A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers.
season of 1897-98 is noteworthy as showing the steady expansion
of the new route. In 1896-97 the Perso-Quetta
kafila
A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers.
season closed at the
end of February ; the present season is still open. A
kafila
A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers.
is now preparing
to start for Meshed, while I am in receipt of information to the effect that a
Seistani caravan is on its way to Quetta. Such activity in Quetta-Persiari
trade has never been known in the history of Quetta. I attribute this
greatly to the sense of security engendered by the five forts and thirteen
block-houses that stud the road between Nushki and Koh-i-Malik Siah.
*******
No. 55.
Received with letter from the Secretary, Political and Secret Department,
No. 28 3 dated the 24fA June 1898.
Foreign Office to
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.
.
g IRj February 17th, 1898.
I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to state that a telegram
has been received from Her Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires at Tehran, reporting
that Captain Sykes is now available for duty at his post, and that he has
instructed him to proceed to Kerman, to watch the proceedings of the
Governor, who is advancing with a large force to subdue the revolt in
Baluchistan and to punish the murderers of the late Mr. Graves.
The presence of a British Consular Officer in the Kerman district seems
specially required in the present condition of affairs, and Lord Salisbury
proposes to approve the instructions given by Mr. Hardinge to Captain Sykes.
I am, however, to remind you that no decision has been arrived at with
regard to the permanent establishment of a Consulate at Kerman, and to state
that His Lordship would be glad to learn Lord George Hamilton’s opinion on
the arrangement suggested in the letter from this office of the 12th of October
last, which depended on the Government of India being prepared to contribute
half the cost of the proposed establishment.
I am, Sir, &c.,
(Sd.) F. H. VlLLIERs.
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- Content
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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