IOR/L/PS/12/3425, f 54

Copy of a map showing Sir Henry Mortimer Durand’s proposed frontier between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], referred to in the agreement of 27 December 1895 between the Governments of Persia and Britain. The original of the map was signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot, Military Attaché at Tehran, 30 December 1895. A note at the bottom of the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Strahan, Surveyor General of India. The map indicates: the proposed frontier, shown as a black dashed line; hydrography; settlements; topography, with some indication of relief.

The map is signed as being a true copy by Lieutenant-Colonel R A Wahab, Survey of the Perso-Baluch Boundary Commission, 5 April 1896. Printing statements in the bottom right corner of the map read: ‘Photozincographed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Branch, Survey of India, Dehra Dún [Dehradun]’ and ‘Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta [Kolkata].’