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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [229] (246/578)
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.
229
as Regent and Foreign Minister, the King, accompanied by the Queen
and other members of ^he Royal family, left Kandahar early in Decem
ber, and travelled as the guest of the Government of India via Chaman,
Quetta and Karachi, to Bombay and on to Fort Said. A meeting
between the King and the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, was unfortunately pre
vented by the sudden illness of the latter at Bombay. After visiting
Egypt, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, King
Amanulla and Queen Souriya were met at Dover by the Prince of Wales
on the 13th March 1928, and were State guests at Buckingham Palace
for three days, official banquets being held also at the Foreign Office
and the Guildhall. After the conclusion of the official visit, the King
visited Windsor, Oxford, Sandhurst, and many industrial centres, and
was present at naval, military and air force exercises. Leaving Eng
land on the 5th April, he returned to Germany for an operation on his
throat: and proceeded thence to Poland, Russia, Turkey and Persia,
crossing the Meshed-Herat frontier on the 22nd June and arriving in
Kabul on the 2nd July.
Shortly before leaving Afghanistan he had concluded a treaty for the
establishment of diplomatic relations with Poland (November 192T), and
an Air Agreement with Russia (November 1927* * * § ). He also concluded a
Treaty of Friendship and Security with Persia (November 1927t).
In March 1928 an Agreement^ was concluded between the aerial
departments of the Afghan and Russian Governments regarding the
details necessary to the operation of the Russo-Afghan Air Agreement of
1927.
In the course of his tour the following ten additional treaties, pacts
and protocols were concluded : —
Letto-Afghan (February 1928);
Swiss-Afghan (February 1928);
Japano-Afghan (April 1928);
Egypto-Afghan (May 1928) § ;
Turco-Afghan (May 1928)11;
Perso-Afghan (June 1928)11
Perso-Afghan (Extradition) (June 1928)**;
Perso-Afghan (Frontier Commission) (June 1928)tf;
Finno-Afghan (July 1928);
Liberian-Afghan (1928);
* Appendix No. X1T.
t Appendix No. XIII.
X Appendix No. XIV.
§ Appendix No. XV.
If Appendix No. XVI.
|| Appendix No. XIII (Additional Protocol).
** See Part I, Persia, Appendix No. XXVI (Protocol),
ft Appendix No. XVII.
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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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