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IOR/L/PS/20/253
- Record Id:
- 040-000565541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000564257
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000ae
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057493740.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/20/253
- Title:
- Précis of correspondence, &c., relating to affairs in Central Asia, Biluchistan, Persia, &c. 1875-77. With appendices.
- Scope & Content:
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A compilation of correspondence, reports, memoranda, gazetteer extracts, dispatches and statistics, prepared by Trevor Chichele Plowden, the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department. Printed in Calcutta, by the Foreign Department Press, 1878.
The volume contains:
- 'Chapter I. Correspondence relating to the establishment of a friendly understanding between England and Russia as to the general policy of the two Governments in Central Asia, with special reference to Afghanistan.'
- 'Chapter II. The Turkomans of the Attrek [Etrek], Akhal [Ahal], and Merv [Mary], and their relations with Russia, Persia, Afghanistan, and England.'
- 'Chapter III. Relations of the British Government with Biluchistan [Balochistān].'
- 'Chapter IV. Relations between the British Government, Cashmere [Kashmīr], and the Frontier States of Chitral [Chitrāl], Yassin [Yāsīn] and Dir [Dīr].'
- 'Chapter V. Events in Kashgar [Kāshgar] during 1875-1877. '
- 'Chapter VI. Events in the Khanate of Kokand during 1875-1877.'
- 'Chapter VII. Events in the Khanate of Khiva during 1875-1877.'
- 'Chapter VIII. Events in the Khanate of Bokhara [Bukhara] during 1875-1877.'
- 'Chapter IX. Miscellaneous.'
- Appendices.
The volume includes two fold-out maps: one stored in a pocket inside the front board; and one at folio 207.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000564257
037-000565294
040-000565541 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/20 : Political and Secret Department Library
IOR/L/PS/20/1-289C : Political and Secret Department Library: Works received later, through official channels, plus miscellaneous items
IOR/L/PS/20/253 : Précis of correspondence, &c., relating to affairs in Central Asia, Biluchistan, Persia, &c. 1875-77. With… - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/20/253, f 2 : Sketch of the Countries between Hindustan and the Caspian Sea
IOR/L/PS/20/253, f 207 : Map to illustrate report on Toorkoman Tribes between the Caspian and the Oxus, February 1876
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/20/253 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0020]/036-000564257[0009]/037-000565294[0226]/040-000565541
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (278 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000ae
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1878
- End Date:
- 1878
- Date Range:
- 1878
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 279; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Arrangement:
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The volume is arranged as follows:
- Table of contents, folios 5-9
- Alphabetical index, folios 10-40
- Appendices, folios 178-278.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)