‘Perso-Balūch Boundary from B.P. 11 to Kūh-i-Malik Sīāh’

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Printed map with hand drawn additions. The map is signed by Captain Guy Bomford, Royal Engineers, and Superintendent of the Survey of India. A note at bottom of the map states that it was published under the direction of Brigadier Robert Henry Thomas, Surveyor General of India, in 1932. The B.P. referred to in the map’s title stands for boundary pillar. The map indicates: boundaries (international, state, district); railway lines; telegraph lines; roads, tracks, and other paths; hydrology; topography, with some indication of relief and heights expressed in feet; settlements; structures (including forts, watchtowers, mosques); post and telegraph offices. In the bottom left corner of the map is an inset A small map or other image enclosed within the margin of a larger map, map sheet, or larger image; or papers placed inside a book or archival volume. map of Mīrjāwa [Mīrjāveh] (scale: 1:31,680), showing town, river, railways, roads, telegraph line. In the bottom right of the map is the printing statement: ‘Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Dehra Dūn [Dehradun].’

The map’s hand drawn additions were made by Bomford. They are three additional frontier lines marked on the map, with accompanying key: 1) the Holdich Line, as transferred from the small scale map accompanying Thomas Hungerford Holdich’s agreement, with a correction to the Longitude measurement (blue dashed line); 2) a line considered to be the closest interpretation of the Holdich Agreement (solid blue line); and 3) an alternative interpretation of the Holdich Agreement (gold line). These additions are signed by Bomford.

Two maps that follow on folios 116 and 117 are identical to this map, with the exception that they do not include Bomford’s hand drawn additions.

Extent and format

1 map

Area map covers

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Scale

1:253,440

Scale designator

Horizontal

Orientation

North

Degree coordinates

Top-left: 30° 0' 9" N, 60° 48' 33.48" E
Top-right: 30° 0' 9" N, 62° 42' 36" E
Bottom-left: 28° 0' 14.76" N, 60° 48' 33.48" E
Bottom-right: 28° 0' 14.76" N, 62° 42' 36" E

It is part of

Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/3425

Physical characteristics

Dimensions: 895 x 750 mm, on sheet 975 x 785 mm.

Materials: printed on paper.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Map

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/12/3425, f 115

Former external reference(s)

Reg. No. 45 X.D.D.'.32(0.0.2-3/8")66.

History of this record

Date(s)

1932 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

Surveyor GeneralSurvey of India

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‘Perso-Balūch Boundary from B.P. 11 to Kūh-i-Malik Sīāh’, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 115, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100085085664.0x000009> [accessed 29 July 2026]

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