IOR/L/PS/10/79/1

Part 1 contains correspondence relating to the demarcation of the boundary in Baluchistan, between Persia, British India, and Afghanistan. The correspondence is between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Viceroy of India, the Foreign Office, and the India Office. Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:

• Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, British Commissioner, Seistan [Sīstān] Arbitration Commission;
• Evelyn Grant Duff, British Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran;
• Arthur Henry Hardinge, British Minister, Tehran;
• Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.

Several matters are covered by the papers, including:

• the definition of the border in the Seistan region and around Mirjawar [Mīrjāveh];
• the allocation of water resources;
• the export of grain from Persia to British frontier posts;
• customs duties on exports into British territory.

Folio 133 is a copy of the agreement concerning the border at Mirjawar and the export of grain, signed by Arthur Hardinge and the Persian Prime Minister (Mushir-ed-Dowleh) on 13 May 1905.

Several maps are included, as follows:

• map of Mirjawa and neighbourhood (folio 121);
• sketch map of Mirjawar (folio 122);
• three maps of the North-Western Trans-Frontier (including Seistan province) in various scales (folios 202, 203, and 204).