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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [48] (65/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (289 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English and French. 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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PERSIA— NO. Ill—1801.
Article 1.
As lono' as the sun, illuminating the circle of the two great contracting powers,
shines on their sovereign dominions and bestows light on the whole wor , t e
beautiful image of excellent union shall remain fixed on the mirror of duration and
perpetuity, the thread of shameful enmity and distance shall be cut, conditions ol
mutual aid and assistance between the two States shall be instituted, and all causes
of hatred and hostility shall be banished.
Article 2.
If the king of the Afghans should ever show a resolution to invade India, which
is subject to the government of the monarch (above mentioned) the prince of high
rank, the king of England, an army overthrowing mountains, furnished with all
warlike stores, shall be appointed from the State of the conspicuous and exalted,
high and fixed in power (the king of Persia), to lay waste and desolate the Afghan
dominions, and every exertion shall be employed to ruin and humble the above
mentioned nation.
Article 3.
Should it happen that the king of the Afghans ever becomes desirous of opening
the gates of peace and friendship with the government of the king (of Persia),
who is in rank like Solomon, in dignity like Jumsheed, the shade of God ! who has
bestowed his mercy and kindness on the earth ; when negotiations are opened for
an amicable adjustment, it shall be stipulated in the peace concluded that the king
of the Afghans, or his armies, shall abandon all design of attack on the territories
subject to the government of the king above mentioned, who is worthy of royalty,
the king of England.
Article 4.
Should ever any king of the Afghans or any person of the Prench nation com
mence war and hostilities with the powerful of the ever enduring State (of the king
of Persia), the rulers of the government of the king (of England), whose Court is
like heaven, and who has been before mentioned, shall (on such event) send as
many cannon and warlike stores as possible, with necessary apparatus, attendants,
and inspectors, and such supply shall be delivered over at one of the ports of
Persia, whose boundaries are conspicuous, to the officers of the high in dignity, the
king of Persia,
Article 5.
Should it ever occur that an army of the French nation, actuated by design
and deceit, attempts to settle with a view of establishing themselves on any of the
islands or shores of Persia, a conjunct force shall be appointed by the two high
contracting States to act in co-operation for their expulsion and extirpation, and
to destroy and put an end to the foundation of their treason. It is a condition.
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The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, was revised in 1930 and published in 1933 by the Manager of Publications in Delhi, under the authority of the Government of India.
Part 1 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Persia and dating from between 12 April 1763 and 10 May 1929. The treaties refer to: trade agreements; foreign relations; prohibition and suppression of the slave trade; sovereignty and status of Persian regions; frontier negotiations; foreign concessions; telegraph lines. Part 2 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Afghanistan and dating from between 17 June 1809 and 6 May 1930. The treaties relate to: foreign relations; the establishment of boundaries and frontier negotiations; peace treaties; commercial relations; import of arms. A number of appendices follow part 2, which contain the text of treaties relating to both Persia and Afghanistan.
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- 1 volume (289 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into two parts covering Persia and Afghanistan respectively, as are the appendices at the end of the volume. Each part is divided into a number of chapters, identified by Roman numerals, and arranged chronologically, from the earliest treaties to the most recent. At the beginning of each part is a general introduction to the treaties and engagements that follow.
There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 4-8) which lists the geographical regions and treaties. The contents pages refers to the volume’s pagination system. There is a subject index, arranged alphabetically, at the end of the volume (ff 277-87) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, front-i, i-r, i-v, ii-r, ii-v, 1:10, 1:306, 1:230, 1:22, iii-r, iii-v, back-i
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