Abstract: 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.Physical description: 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.