Settlement and Demarcation of the Frontier between Persia and Baluchistan
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement and demarcation of the frontier between Persia and Khelat [Kalāt], in Beloochistan [Baluchistan]. The frontier settlement mission was led by Major-General Frederick John Goldsmid. The pape...
Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement of the opposing claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan [Sistan]. The papers lead up to the establishment of a commission of arbitration of the Seistan boundary, under the adjudication ...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871. The papers cover: the aims of the Ottoman military expedition against Nejd [Najd]; correspondence with Midhut Pasha, Governor General of Baghdad; British support for Bahrein [Bahrain]; the movements of British wars...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871. The papers concern the seizure and execution of a messenger from the 'pirate', Nassir bin Mobarik, to Jassim bin Mahomed bin Thani [Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī] of Gwuttur [Qatar], at Bahrein [Bahrain], and...
Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 6 December 1871. The letter encloses a report by the Agent at Cabul [Kabul], on the intentions of the Amir of Afghanistan in relation to Seistan [Sistan]. The Amir had given stringent orders to his dependent rulers not to allow any ...