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Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’ [4r] (18/658)
The record is made up of 1 volume (323 folios). It was created in 14 Apr 1924-20 Nov 1935. It was written in English and Persian. 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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Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and is marked on a map
prepared "by a subordinate commission in the following year
under the orders of Major St. John. As far as we are aware
there is no later map than Major St. John’s of 1872, and it
is probable that it is not very accurate. It has therefore
been suggested that if the Iranians raise the question of
demarcation of any part of the com ;on frontier on the ground,
we should endeavour to divert them to this sector. We can
point out that frontier delimitation of the northern sector
y/as sufficiently arranged by the .joint commission attended by
Captain Bomford in 1932, and that if any work is now required
it should take place on the southern undemarcated sector,
particularly as we have no later papers than 1872 dealing with
this sector. At the same time we may add that the whole
frontier is covered by written agreements and that in vie?; of
the sparsely inhabited character of the terrain and the
few incidents which take place, we deprecate the heavy
expenditure which would be entailed by boundary demarcation
in the difficult and desolate country.
Sgd. O.K. Caroe.
20
11. 35-
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Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Duzdap [Zahedan] stretch of the North Western Railway, and territorial claims made by the Khan of Kalat, Mir Mohammad Azam Jan Khan, and the Persian Government. The volume’s correspondents include: Foreign Office and 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. officials; the British Legation at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare; Charles Dodd); the Government of India (Francis Verner Wylie); the Agent to Governor-General and Chief Commissioner for Baluchistan (Alexander Norman Ley Cater); the British Consul for Sīstān and Kain [Ka’īn] (Clive Kirkpatrick Daly).
The correspondence covers:
- The historical basis for negotiations, being surveys carried out in the 1870s, and a demarcation agreement concluded on 24 March 1896 by Colonel Thomas Hungerford Holdich, later referred to as the Holdich Line. Papers include correspondence from the 1930s in response to uncertainties about the precise position of the line (including extracts of the agreement in Persian), and copies of correspondence from 1895-1896 relating to the conclusion of Holdich’s agreement.
- Arrangements in 1932 for a joint British and Persian survey party to map the frontier, with Captain Guy Bomford of the Survey of India leading the British party. The results of Bomford’s survey are summarised in a copy of a secret letter, dated 9 June 1932, with accompanying maps (ff 113-119).
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- 1 volume (323 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 321; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and two ending flyleaves.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3425
- Title
- Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:13v, 15r:37v, 41r:53v, 59r:100v, 102r:114v, 116r:117v, 120r:160v, 163r:173v, 175r:179v, 181r:185v, 187r:257v, 259r:281v, 283r:291v, 293r:305v, 307r:321r, back-i, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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