Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan

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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement of the opposing claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan [Sistan]. The papers lead up to the establishment of a commission of arbitration of the Seistan boundary, under the adjudication of Major-General Frederick John Goldsmid.

The papers cover: précis of correspondence concerning the Perso-Khelat [Kalāt] boundary settlement; background to the dispute between the two countries over the Seistan boundary; correspondence from Goldsmid, setting out a framework for the arbitration, and reporting the progress of negotiations; correspondence from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], reporting the attitude of the Persian Government; a reported increase of Persian forces in Seistan, June-July 1871; instructions for the commencement of survey work in the area; British action to induce the ruler of Afghanistan to abstain from hostilities; and a letter from the Viceroy to the Amir of Cabul [Kabul] concerning the Seistan arbitration, 31 October 1871.

The Enclosures are dated 25 March - 31 October 1871.

Extent and format

1 item (27 folios)

It is part of

Secret Letters and Enclosures from the Government of India

1346 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/268

Arrangement

There is an Abstract of Contents on folios 428-432, numbered 1-46.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 427-453

Former external reference(s)

Secret No. 72 of 1871

History of this record

Date(s)

25 Mar 1871-9 Dec 1871 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Frontiers

Places

Seistan

People & organisations

HM Ambassador to IranArbitrator, Sistan Arbitration Commission

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