File 1377/1905 Pt 3 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Piran and Kacha Question'

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Part 3 contains correspondence relating to the border zone around Piran and Kacha. The correspondence is between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Viceroy of India, the Foreign Office, and the 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. . Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:

• Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan;
• British Consul in Seistan [Sīstān] and Kain;
• British Minister, Tehran;
• Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai;
• Consul General in Khorasan, Meshed;
• numerous Persian Government officials.

The papers cover the dispute over the border around Piran and Kacha, including incidents of alleged transgression by both Persian and British subjects. Specific Persian complaints about British interference at custom houses and the operations of a British survey party are also discussed.

Extent and format

1 item (105 folios)

It is part of

File 1377/1905 Pt 3-4 'Perso-Baluch Frontier'

542 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/80

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/80/1

Former external reference(s)

P 1377/1905 Pt 3

History of this record

Date(s)

Jan 1907-Jan 1913 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

PiranKacha

People & organisations

Government of India, Foreign and Political DepartmentHM Ambassador to IranAgent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner, BaluchistanViceroy and Governor-General of India in CouncilBritish Consul, Seistan and KainGovernment of Persia, Qajar dynastyPolitical Agent, ChagaiBritish Consul-General, Khorasan

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