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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [287] (304/578)
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—NO. XXIII—1919.
287
Article 2.
In view of the circumstances which have brought about the present war bet
ween the British Government and the Government of Afghanistan, the British
Government, to mark their displeasure, withdraw the privilege enjoyed by former
Amirs of importing arms, ammunition or warlike munitions through India to
Afghanistan.
Article 3.
The arrears of the late Amir’s subsidy are furthermore confiscated, and no
subsidy is granted to the present Amir.
Article 4.
At the same time, the British Government are desirous of the re-establishment
of the old friendship that has so long existed between Afghanistan and Great
Britain, provided they have guarantees that the Afghan Government are, on their
part, sincerely anxious to regain the friendship of the British Government. The
British Government are prepared, therefore, provided the Afghan Government
prove this by their acts and conduct, to receive another Afghan mission after six
months for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest to the
two Governments and the re-establishment of the old friendship on a satisfactory
basis.
Article 5.
The Afghan Government accept the Indo-Afghan frontier accepted by the late
Amir. They further agree to the early demarcation by a British Commission of
the undemarcated portion of the line west of the Khyber, where the recent Afghan
aggression took place, and to accept such boundary as the British Commission
may lay down. The British troops on this side will remain in their present posi
tions until such demarcation has been effected.
Ali Ahmad Khan,’ 5 * A. H. Grant,
Commissary for Home Affairs and Foreign Secretary to the Covern-
Chief of the Peace Delegation of the ment of India and Chief of the
Afghan Government. Peace Delegation of the British
Government.
ANNEXUKE.
No. 7-P.O., dated Rawalpindi, the 8th August 1919.
From—The Chief British Representative, Indo-Afghan Peace Conference,
To—The Chief Afghan Representative.
After compliments. —You asked me for some further assurance that the Peace
Treaty which the British Government now offer, contains nothing that interfered
with the complete liberty of Afghanistan in internal or external matters.
D 2
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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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