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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [203] (220/578)
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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PART II.
Treaties and Engagements
relating to
Afghanistan.
A T the beginning of the nineteenth century the Durani empire,
extending from Herat to Kashmir and from Balkh to Sind, which
had been built up by Ahmad Shah Abdali, remained undivided in the
hands of his grandson Zaman Shah. Having incurred the enmity of
the powerful Barakzai tribe, Zaman Shah was deposed and blinded by
his half-brother Mahmud, who was supported by Fateh Khan and the
Barakzai. He eventually died a pensioner of the British Government
at Ludhiana. In 1803 Shah Mahmud was driven out by Shuja-ul-Mulk,
the younger brother of Zaman Shah; and Shah Shuja was still in pos
session of the undivided empire of Ahmad Shah at the time of Mr,
Elphinstone’s mission in 1808.
This mission was sent for the purpose of concerting with Shah Shuja
the means of mutual defence against the threatened invasion of Afghan
istan and India by the French in confederacy with the Persians. Ihe
mission was well received at Peshawar by Shah Shuja, and resulted in
the conclusion of a Treaty of alliance (No. I) in 1809. It was under
stood that the stipulations of the second article rendered it incumbent
on the British Government to assist Shah Shuja only in the event of an
attack by the French and Persians for the purpose of fulfilling the
terms of their confederacy, but not if Persia alone should invade Afgha
nistan without such a purpose, or in consequence of former enmity oi
recent disputes.
Mr. Elphinstone had scarcely left Peshawar when news was received
that Kabul had been occupied by Shah Mahmud with the aid of Fateh
Khan. In 1816, after wandering about for some years, the sport of
fortune, now a captive in Kashmir, now the prisoner of Kan jit Singh
at Lahore, Shah Shuja found an asylum in British territory at Ludhiana.
In the meantime Fateh Khan Barakzai, who was the chief support
of Shah Mahmud’s power, incurred his jealousy, and was blinded and
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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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