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Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’ [‎44v] (99/658)

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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33 The procedure which I venture to urge should he adopted, is that the
Persian GoXnment should be pressed forthwitt, toagreetotheshghtrec^
fieation of frontier required for the adoption of the red boundary line, and to
send the Yamin-i-Nizam necessary authority to demarcate accordingly. In
the meantime this Mission should remain in Seistan. .
34. If the above request does not include the necessary rectification of
boundary at Padaha also, it should be so worded as not to preclude a further
subsequent representation regarding the latter place, ^enl a ve,
sure I will have, to refer the matter on arrival there. So little would then
remain to finish up a long and weary business that not only would the Persian
Commissioner be likely directly or indirectly to support my representations
but the Persian Government would, after giving in on the first point, be less
likely to make a stand on the second and final one.
35. What appears to me to be a strong argument for tackling the Perso-
Baluch boundary question with the Persian Government direct, at Tehran,
forthwith, without waiting for this Mission to leave Seistan and arrive at an
impasse in Miriawa, is that, when the Seistan question is settled up and we are
known to have embarked on that of the Perso-Baluch boundary, Russian
diplomacy at Tehran will doubtless be more wideawake and more actively
directed than at present towards thwarting our wishes in that direction, bir
Arthur Hardinge will know whether this argument carries weight, or not, and
consequently whether it is better to include both the red line and Padaha in
one representation, or take up the red line first, and await further leference
before tackling Padaha.
36. A copy of this memorandum and of North-West Trans-Frontier map,
4 inch = 1 mile, sheet No. 14 N.-W., dated 1902, with the red and blue
boundary lines shown thereon, is being sent direct to His Biitannic Majesty s
Minister at Tehran.
Camp Kohak ;
The 5th Novemler 1904.
a. h. McMahon, Colonel,
British Commissioner.
MGIPC—S 6 -VM— 14 . 3 . 34 — 2 S.

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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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