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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [173] (496/578)
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—APPENDIX NO. 1—1888.
clxxiii
to pillar No. 32. Between Nos. 31 and 32 three intermediate pillars were erected
The first, No. 31A, on the northern side of the road which leaves the Kashan valley
at Kak-i-Dowlat Beg and runs to Mangan. The pillar stands on the top of the
Kotal where the road crosses the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
, and at a distance of nearly 5 miles
from pillar No. 31.
The second, No. 31B, stands on a round-topped high hill, about half a mile
to the north of, and visible from, No. 31 A. The third, No. 310, stands on the
northern side of the road between Yaki Gachan in the Kashan valley and Tannur
Sangi on the Murghab, at the top of the Kotal forming the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
between
the two valleys, and about 3| miles from pillar No. 32. Pillar No. 32 stands on
the top of a conical hill, the highest hill on the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
between the Kashan
and the Murghab, and just at the point where the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
divides near the head
of the Kul-i-Madir-i-Naib which runs northwards from there down to the Murghab.
From pillar No. 32 the boundary turns in an east-north-east direction and runs
in a straight line for a little over 3 miles to pillar No. 33, built on the top of a long
high ridge and then on in a straight line for nearly 4 miles, again to pillar No. 34
on the top of the southernmost point of a high flat ridge between Shor Tannur
Sangi, and the next Shor on the west and about miles from Tannur Sangi itself.
From thence the line crosses the Tannur Sangi Shor in a straight line, and runs
on for a little more than f of a mile to pillar No. 34A built on the top of a high,
rounded knoll on the east side of Tannur Sangi Shor, and between it and the
Murghab, and thence on in the same straight line for a little under half a mile to
pillar No. 35 built on the left bank of the Murghab, and close to the water’s edge
700 feet above the Tannur Sangi ford.
From pillar No. 35 the frontier follows the course of the River Murghab till
it joins pillar No. 36 at the northern end of the Maruchak valley.
C. E. Yate, Lieut.-Col.
W. Peacocke, Major, R.E.
Capitaine Komarow.
P. Ilyin.
Description of the Afghan Frontier between the Hari Rud and the Oxus.
From pillar No. 65 the boundary runs in a straight line for 2| miles in an east
by south direction to pillar No. 66, which stands in the open plain close to the
west side of the road from Andkui to Imam Nazar at a distance of 3,500 feet to the
south of the main well at Imam Nazar. Thence the line runs almost due east for
some 9f miles to pillar No. 67, placed on the top of a sandy rise 20 yards to the
west side of the road leading from Ak Khan Bhai Kak to Tash Kuduk and thence
on in the same straight line for another 4| miles to pillar No. 68 built on the east
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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)
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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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