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Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’ [‎19r] (48/658)

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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5. In February 1932, however, H.M*s Minister Tehran
reported that the Persian Government had sent a Survey
Party to Duzdap and that the Minister for Foreign
Affairs had asked whether the Government of India would
be ready to send a similar party immediately to
delimitate the frontier before the hot weather. In
his despatch No.59 dated 15th March 1932 Minister
explained the Persian Government’s reasons for raising
the question of delimitation. They considered it
essential, owing to certain ambiguities and differences
of opinion which existed as to the 1871 Agreement, to
re-demarcate those parts of the frontier on the basis
of that Agreement. The Indian authorities were alleged
to have made certain encroachments, the opinion of the
Persian Government being that Piran and Eacha as well as
Kila Safed should be in Persian territory. After
discussion ?/ith the Government of India and H.M’s
Minister Tehran the Home Government agreed to a fresh
delimitation of the frontier near Mirjawa, and if the
Persians wished it up to Koh-i-Malik Siah, on the basis
of the Holdich Agreement. Fortunately the Persians sent
no plenipotentiary with their survey party, so we did
not send one either and no delimitation actually took
place. The Persian surveyors did very little work in
the field and practically all the surveying was done by
Captain Bamford, who with the approval of Government
gave the Persian party a copy of his map. The question
of demarcation was once more dropped by both sides.
6. In this connexion I may mention that when the
Home Government asked for our views on the ’’red line”,
and enquired whether Persians trespass wa.s still banned
between the red and blue lines, the Agent to the Governor
General replied that owing to the abandonment of the
trade

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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)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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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 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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English and Persian in Latin and Arabic script
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