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Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan [437v] (22/54)
The record is made up of 1 item (27 folios). It was created in 25 Mar 1871-9 Dec 1871. It was written in English. 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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3. As I have before stated, my services are at the disposal of Government
, , , in any capacity. So Ion" as health does not wholly
^annexu^.’ paragrap ’ an J have no private considerations to put forward
when Government does me the honor of requiring me. If it be for the more
important duties of arbitration, I am ready; if for the less important duties of
personally ascertaining a political status and superintending the preparation of
F ° a map, I am ready also. In either case it is not only
Paragraph 3. ^ ue to Captain Lovett that I should recommend his
employment in continuation of a work for which he has already been attached,
but in acknowledgment of good service in Beloochistan.
4. If on the other hand Government did not judge it necessary to send
an officer of my rank at all on the less important duty abo\e noted, and arbi
tration on the spot were indeed set aside, I could make no fitter suggestion
than that contained in my demi-official letter to your address, dated Kurman,
2nd January last. Captain St. John,. R. e., late Acting Director of the Persian
Telegraph, now in Persia, possesses, in my opinion, the qualifications neces
sary & to survey and map out the territories coming under discussion, as well as
obtain all data, political and geographical, for examination and investigation
at Teheran, with a view to ultimate settlement.
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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.
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There is an Abstract of Contents on folios 428-432, numbered 1-46.
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- IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 427-453
- Title
- Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan
- Pages
- 427r:453v
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