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Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’ [253r] (516/658)
The record is made up of 1 volume (323 folios). It was created in 14 Apr 1924-20 Nov 1935. It was written in English and Persian. 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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claim mpy be put forth, they wish to avoid bringing up the
Mir jaws boundary question.
In view of the Persian claims to the Bahrain Islands,
based solely on the fact that once, very many years ago,
the Persians ruled the islands for a short period, it can
readily be understood that it would be highly inconvenient,
if we were in a position to produce a counter claim, not
less substantial, to a large area of Persian territory in
Bast
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
Persia.
Although I have not been so told, I have every reason
to suppose that my informant was himself chosen by the
G.O.C* as the intermediary for getting in touch with Mir
Azam.
iU-4 Oaa. 6 pifcU-
Since the-has recently died, the anxiety
lf\
of the Persians must have considerably increased, for, I
gather, it is not impossible that Azam Khan may be considered
as his successor.
If, in fret, Azam Khan has documentary evidence to
support the alleged claim, it woulfl appear that we would
be in s possession of a very potent means of combating
Persian claims to Bahrain and also in connection with the
boundary st Mirjawa.
In the latter connection, I have just received a
report that the G.O.C. recently state<^<in Zahidan that
he considered Persian territory extended over a considerable
length of the Kundi - Rob&t trade route and that he was
also convinced that Qe leh Safid ( referred to as Pad&he in
the 1905 agreement ) which we have recently occupied, is in
Persia*
It is also reported from Mirjawa that when he recently
visited that place, he ordered the C&ntonment Commandant to
resist any attempt of the levies at the Fort to take water
from Mirjawa and that if they were seen in the Ha Hah, near
the
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Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Duzdap [Zahedan] stretch of the North Western Railway, and territorial claims made by the Khan of Kalat, Mir Mohammad Azam Jan Khan, and the Persian Government. The volume’s correspondents include: Foreign Office and 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. officials; the British Legation at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare; Charles Dodd); the Government of India (Francis Verner Wylie); the Agent to Governor-General and Chief Commissioner for Baluchistan (Alexander Norman Ley Cater); the British Consul for Sīstān and Kain [Ka’īn] (Clive Kirkpatrick Daly).
The correspondence covers:
- The historical basis for negotiations, being surveys carried out in the 1870s, and a demarcation agreement concluded on 24 March 1896 by Colonel Thomas Hungerford Holdich, later referred to as the Holdich Line. Papers include correspondence from the 1930s in response to uncertainties about the precise position of the line (including extracts of the agreement in Persian), and copies of correspondence from 1895-1896 relating to the conclusion of Holdich’s agreement.
- Arrangements in 1932 for a joint British and Persian survey party to map the frontier, with Captain Guy Bomford of the Survey of India leading the British party. The results of Bomford’s survey are summarised in a copy of a secret letter, dated 9 June 1932, with accompanying maps (ff 113-119).
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- 1 volume (323 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 321; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and two ending flyleaves.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:13v, 15r:37v, 41r:53v, 59r:100v, 102r:114v, 116r:117v, 120r:160v, 163r:173v, 175r:179v, 181r:185v, 187r:257v, 259r:281v, 283r:291v, 293r:305v, 307r:321r, back-i, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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