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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [‎7r] (18/380)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (188 folios). It was created in 11 May 1929-13 Jun 1932. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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2.
first class Chief of Borfbiy j^esirlency, is consid ^2)
their last surviving Iinam, Thair Prayer House or •Jamat Kham*
*hich also includes the Conrounity's school, Library and the
so called Council, is a huge splendid edifice "built in about
1B91 "by a donation of His Highness Sir Agha Khan,
There is miniority of British Subjects from the
Punjab or other part of Inlia.
Besides Indians^people of Las Bela State and
Mekranis ^ho are "both British Protected Subjects frequent this
place in th^ir ind ;terminate number. As a rule they, as also
the inhabitants of the neighbouring Persian Balochistan visit
Gwadur ^len famines break out in their own areas or thoir
crops are devasted by locusts ^hich are so numerous in those
parts of the world. They often live temporarily at Gwalur froi
where they attempt to proceed to Karachi in search of some
employment.
The lower classes of Sultan Subjects better kno^n
as •Ivieds* or * ^arTsadahs* (liekranis bom of ne^ ^esses), i ainly
^rork at fishing barks as •Janshus* after entering; into
customary ai reer-ents with their Nakhudas ^10 are chiefly
Sultan Subjects and are often sumamed as ' Kohdas * a corruptic
of •Katkhudas*, Middling people either indulge in sailing,
country crafts or maintain themselves by running petty shops,
majority of country folks eke out a precarious existence by
the breeding- of sheeps and other animals.
1 ajority of Sultan Subjects are of 1 ekrani stock
with a tintse of Persian beauty in the upper classes of Kohdas
and Binds. In the lower classes there is a strong, infusion of
negro blood.
Strictly speaking Gwadur hardly contains an Aral).
Excluding 'Tali, his ftaib at pishkan a neighbouring village
and Customs I udir there are only ?5 \rabs -^ho are not settled
professionalists but rather in the Sultani Service as
•Filawis* or •Irregular Soldiers', Ton of them , " r ork directly
under Wali, P under Customs ludir and the remaining under the
1G-VWV CXCA<XA ^JC aaa o*.ol<\A-
so called aii- of Qalat via in charge of Sultani^ fort
Bltmted In vicinity of the Politic^

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The file covers political, economic and general matters at Gwadar (which is referred to throughout as ‘Gwadur’). The file includes Annual Report of the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Gwadar for the year 1928, written by the British Agent, M Waris Ali, which includes sections on ancient history; area and population; main villages of the Gwadar territory; languages, religion and instruction; constitution, government and justice; British and state representatives; cases settled during the year under report; defence; passports and certificates of identity; frontier news in brief; shipping, communications and trade; foreign and inland commerce and the way in which both have contributed to bring about a destructive effect on Gwadar trade; fish trade; state customs, finance and baladiah; sanitation and doctor; climate, soil, rainfall and agriculture; production, industries and manufactures; mineralogy; slaves and their manumission; government buildings and their upkeep; government post office and telegraph office; meteorological and aeroplanes; banking and currency; weights and measures; the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; distinguished visitors to Gwadar during the year under report; archaeology; locusts; earthquakes; tides and tempests; and obituary for the late British agent, Raja King Lal Khan, who had committed suicide after going insane one night as a result of ‘super abundance [sic] of passport drudgery and other work mixed with anxieties and cares’.

The file also includes papers relating to communal disturbances at Gwadar between Khojas/Aga Khanis (who were British subjects) and Baluchis (subjects of the Sultan of Muscat). The troubles, which followed allegations of the defilement of a mosque with dung by Khojas, resulted in deaths of two members of the Khoja community, 1929-1932

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1 volume (188 folios)
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The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: The foliation system in use is the sequence of numbers appearing in a circle in the top right hand corner of each page. There is also an old foliation system (not circled), numbered 1 (folio 6); then 98 (folio 103) - end of volume.

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