"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٦‎٠‎٤] (١٧٨٢/٧٤٧)

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Sardar
Khan's in
vasion of
South-
Eastern
Persia via
Gwadar and
Chahbar,
1843-44.
Attempt
tie Naib
Kaij on
Gwadar,
1847.
Efforts of
the B;ahuis
to recover
Gwadar,
1857, e'c.
parts of their state, especially upon its western border. Between 1804
and 1807, it is said, Mir Dostain, the Eulaidai chief of Sarbaz, took
possession of Gwadar during the confusion that followed the death of
Saiyid Sultan ; but, if the statement is correct, he was ejected after a
short tenure of the place by troops despatched from Masqat. In 1805
a piratical raid was made on Gwadar by the Qasimi Shaikh of Ras-al-
Khaimah; and about 1839, according to Makrani tradition, Shaikh
Qasim, Gichki, threatened Gwadar and succeeded in obtaining payment
of the Gichki moiety of the revenue on account of two years.
A curious incident, a little later, was an expedition made into South-
Eaetern Persia via Gwadar and Chahbar by ^"ardar Khan, the brother of
His Highness the Agha Khan. At the end of 1843 Sardar Khan left
Karachi with a body of 200 horsemen whom he had collected, and,
marching by land, reached Gwadar at the end of a few weeks. After a
short hait at Gwadar he moved on to Chahbar, which, on account of the
Khojah settlement there, he found a convenient base of operations ; and,
by means of negotiations conducted from Chahbar, he eventually made
himself master of l^ampur. Here however he was besieged by a
Persian army, and, having been obliged to surrender, was removed as a
prisoner to Tehran.
Jn 1847 Faqir Muhammad, the Naib of Kaij, invested Gwadar
with a force of 1,000 men ; his object was to extort from Saiyid Thuwaini,
at. that time regent of ' Oman, a customary annual present which had
been withheld for two years in succession. After the attacks of Faqir
Muhammad had been several times repulsed, the inhabitants of the town,
finding themselves straitened for ammunition and supplies, obtained a
truce ; they then kept the Naib amused with idle promises, and possibly
with small payments, until the arrival of 100 men in the brig " JNasiri"
from Masqat obliged him to relinquish the siege,
+1, i ^ 1S">7 an expedition was organised by Nasir Khan II, partly with
the object of recovering of Gwadar, and was despatched to Kaij under
t le command of Shahghasi ali Muhammad; but the contemplated
attack upon Gwadar was a] parently bought off by the Arab governor,
who presented a nu;r.ber of slaves and a sword to the ruler of Kalat and
possibly paid a sum of money as well. Another expedition against
Gwadar was subsequently planned by Khuda Dad Khan ; but, in conse
quence of tiouble with the Naushairwani tribe of Kharan, it had to be
abandoned.
The claim of Kalat to Gwadar, 1861-63.
he affairs of Gwadar and Chahbar during the following eight
years, from lSfU 1° 1869, were closely connected with the construction
0 . a , e ersian Gulf telegraph, an undertaking which gave rise to some
d'nicult questions of jurisdiction and boundaries.
The preparations for erecting a land line of telegraph from Karachi
to bwadar seem to have inspired the Khan of Kalat with the idea of
reviving, assisted by the British Government, his dormant claim to the