The frontiers of Baluchistan travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan / (Record no. 41781)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number DS485.
Item number B17.
Class number T384 1909
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tate, George Passman,
Dates associated with a name 1856-.
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Title The frontiers of Baluchistan travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan /
Statement of responsibility, etc by G. P. Tate ; with an introduction by Sir A. Henry McMahon.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Witherby & Co.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1909.
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Extent xv, 261 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, color maps ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “With a colored frontispiece, thirty-six plates and two maps”—title page.
General note “George Passman Tate was an assistant superintendent employed by the Survey of India who headed the surveys undertaken by two missions that determined large parts of the borders of Afghanistan, the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission of 1895‒96 and the Seistan Arbitration Mission of 1903‒5. The first of these surveys was carried out to delimit the so-called Durand Line, the border between Afghanistan and British India (present-day Pakistan) that was negotiated during the 1893 mission to Kabul by Sir Mortimer Durand of the Indian government and codified in an agreement signed by Durand and the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan. The second survey was to Seistan, or Sistan, a region that straddles eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan (and parts of Pakistan). It was undertaken after the governments in Kabul and Tehran asked Great Britain to arbitrate the border between the two countries in this region. The book contains an introduction by Colonel Sir Henry McMahon, the British commissioner on both missions. Most of the book is taken up by Tate’s account of the Seistan Mission. He describes the journey overland from Quetta (in present-day Pakistan) to eastern Iran and the region of the marshy Hamun-e Helmand (present-day Daryacheh-ye Hamun) fed by the Helmand River. Tate offers vivid descriptions of the harsh and forbidding climate, the famous “Wind of 120 Days,” and the people, economy, and social conditions of the region. The final chapter is devoted to the Helmand River. The book includes illustrations and two fold-out maps, one showing the route of Tate’s travels, and another the region of the Daryacheh-ye Hamun. Tate describes the work of the surveying parties, but he offers little insight into the politics surrounding the determination of the borders, a topic which, as Sir Henry McMahon phrased it in his introduction, he “felt himself debarred from touching.” Tate filed a number of official reports in which these topics were discussed”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Seistan Arbitration Mission, 1903-1905.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Baluchistan – Description and travel.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds485_b17_t384_1909">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds485_b17_t384_1909</a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 30/01/2018   DS485.B17.T384 1909 3ACKU000506468 30/01/2018 30/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.