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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [219] (236/578)
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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AFGHANISTAN.
219
to the south of this part of the river. By the other agreement a
thoroughly friendly understanding was arrived at as regards the Indo-
Afghan fiontier. The Amir retained Asmar and was given the Birmal
valley. Also, to mark their sense of the friendly spirit in which the
Amir had entered into the negotiations, the Government of India raised
his subsidy to eighteen
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
a year, granted him full permis
sion to import munitions of war, and promised him some help in this
respect as a gift. On the other hand, the Amir agreed that the eastern
and southern frontiers of his dominions, from Wakhan to the Persian
border, should follow the line shown in the map attached to the agree
ment, and that he would at no time exercise interference in Swat,
Bajaur, or Chitral. His Highness also relinquished his claim to
Chagai.
Besides the two above agreements the Amir received from Sir
Mortimer Durand a letter, dated the 11th November 1893 (No. XIII),
informing him that the assurance given to him by the British Govern
ment in regard to his territory, when he had come to the throne in 1880,
remained still in force and was applicable to any territory which might
come into his possession in consequence of his agreement with the British
Government regarding the upper Oxus frontier.
The work of demarcation of the Indo-Afghan frontier as defined in
the agreement of November 1893 was divided into sections, and was
carried out for the most part by joint commissions during the years
1894-1896, the only portion of the frontier remaining undemarcated
being a small section in the vicinity of the Mohmand country and the
Khyber. The Afghan-Waziristan boundary from Domandi to Laram
was demarcated by British officers at the special request of the Amir.
The Agreement regarding 1 the Afghan-Kurram frontier was con
cluded (No. XIV) in November 1894: an Agreement concluded in April
1895 (No. XV) defined the boundary line from the Hindu Kush to the
neighbourhood of Nawa Kotal: and the Afghan-Baluch boundary from
Domandi to the Persian border was demarcated (No. XVI) in 1894 and
1895.
In 1894 the Hon. G. N. Curzon (afterwards Lord Curzon of Kedles-
ton) visited Kabul on the invitation of the Amir, and‘spent a fortnight
there as the Amir’s guest. He was permitted by the Amir to visit
Kandahar and to return to India via New Cham an.
In 1895 the Amir deputed his second son, Shahzada Nasrulla Khan,
to pay his respects to Her Majesty the Queen-Empress, the Amir’s own
state of health having prevented him from undertaking a journey to
England in person.
In March 1895, after prolonged negotiations, Notes (Nos. XVII and
XVIII) were exchanged between the British and Russian Governments
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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