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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [19r] (42/380)
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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14.
Gmdur on its Taoth the .'lastern U^rilf locally called 'Dim aar*
and the 'estern -^.nk called the 'Padi sar*. The letter "bank is
often used while golnf to -Plslikan, oloni, Can?, and Grattur.
The B.I.S.N. Con-pany's Agents for the
entsidiary ports of oiriara, Pasnl, Gwadtar and Ch^rtar are
Messrs Cnrnetji, *>aiashedji and Eoodthoy Karachi. Their
Office <9, at Cmdur i, i^ in represented "by their local
Agent : r. Ahmad a eiiart youn^ man "but being son of a semi..
Insolvent person »Ali"bhoy Eahnatullah is not a very popular
man in G^adur.
"During- the year under report the relations
existing Imtomuthe B.I.S.^Company's Acentn ftQd the looal
leading merchmts have teen most disagreeable, This may le
attributed to two weighty reasons explained "below;-
(1) Gwadnr p«opl« t t chief grievances ^ith-which
the D.P.G.'s and Political A* mt, Muscat's archives are full st
are about •Landing: Charges* ^ihich on account of their "being
charged as tney are, at the rate of* annas - six per gunny "bag
or any Small padtega are almost the loublo charges nhSA
compared with the -^ates charred at 'uscat or oven at Pasni
'•"here the steamers normally ancthor at a comparatively more
distance. These double charros are chart ed by tl e ^.I.S.N.Coy*
Agents under a 5 year a^reenent ^rith the lusat State, as
Landing Charges and arrangements at Gwadur are a matter ^hich
concern the Government of His Highness the Sultan of Muscat.
From their point of view it is necessary that landing
arrangements between 3hi:>s and Customs should be in the hands
of a contractor working under their orders, for if all
Gwadur merchants -"ere allowed to make their own re elective
arrangements, there would surely have been a greater
possibility of evasion of Customs to the financial loss of
the State. ,
On the basis of the above, the director-
C-neral of .Muscat Customs, therefore, granted the contract of
•Tending Charges* to Messrs Cursetji, Jamshedji and Hoodbhoy,
) 1
the B.I.S.N. Coy: \gonts. Shortly after the official
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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)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/R/15/1/379
- Title
- 'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 99ar:99bv, 100r:111v, 114r:185v, 186ar:186av, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence