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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [108r] (215/442)
The record is made up of 1 file (221 folios). It was created in Nov 1911-Mar 1917. 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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14.
Koh-I-Hal±k Siah, skirting the Northern limit e of the
Koh-I~Sulten mountains end the foot of the lonft steep slope
which springs from the base of the wed^e shaped hills, kncvm &8
the Kaoha-Saindak-Amalaf ranrre.
At the close of the last Afghan war, the boundary whioh
separated Daluohistmi Vrotn Afghanistan left the whole of the
Nushki Beglatan, the Chafrai Sarlat hills, and the Southern banl:
of the river Helmand, in Western damsel, without Afghanistan.
This boundary, although t rib ally oorreot, was somewhat indetemdnate
as the influenoe whioh the Brahui Khans of Kalat possessed in
Nushki and over its outlying pastoral tribes was subject to
considerable fluctuations and wa s no t infrequently disregarded.
The Khar an
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
^would never accept Kalat authority and such
attempts as had, from time to time, been made by the Khan to
enforce it had failed. Although the sympathies of the Chagai and
Western damsel Sardars lay rather with Kalat than with Afghanistan,
yet out off as they were from Kalat by Xharan, their intercourse
had always lain with the heeds of their tribes in Seistan, rather
than with Kalat. In short, like Khar an, they claimed to be
Baluchistan Sardars, under British protection. The late Anir of
Afghanistan, with the sagacity and'prescience whioh were always
characteristic of that remarkable man, was not slow to grasp the
great military importance of the position Chagai fort and the
Chagai hills occupied, in relation to the Helmand valley and
Southern Afghanistan. By recourse to force of arms, he took
possession of Western Garmsel and, using this as a base, he
manipulated matters in such a way that on the first favourable
opportunity offering, he seized Chagai Fort. While the Baluoh-Afghan
delimitation ccamaission of 1896 resulted in his withdrawal from
Chagai fort, yet he retained possession of Western Gartnsel, as
well as of an important foothold in the Chagai Sarlat hills. There
were, at the time, obvious difficulties in pressing the Afghans baok
to their traditional frontier line, yet in view of the clearness
of our case, the protest we had entered at the time of the wholly
f o
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railway, the Baghdad Railway, and the Nushki and Dalbandin extension from Quetta. The documents discuss the merits and flaws of the proposals, technical issues such as gauge sizes, and the impact of such projects on Britain's relations with Russia, Germany, France, and Turkey.
At the back of the file are a number of official reports on Parliamentary debates within the House of Commons, dating from 10 July 1912 to 25 May 1914, all of which feature railways (folios 128-218). Also at the rear of the file are three maps:
- General Map of Asia with proposed British, German, and Russian rail lines added by hand
- War Office map of the Middle East, showing railways and railway projects
- As above with further rail lines added and details of gauges given.
Correspondents include: Arthur Campbell Yate, army Officer; Henry McNiel; Francis Richard Maunsell, army officer; George Lloyd, politician; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington, army officer and war correspondent; Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Leader of the House of Lords; Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord Lansdowne), statesman; Lucien Wolf, journalist and historian; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Charles Prestwich Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director, Imperial Bank of Persia; and Colonel Frank Cooke Webb Ware, former Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai.
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 221; 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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- Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia
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- 87r:90v, 95r:221v
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