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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [22r] (48/380)
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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Customs f uren rhowlni: thp > inore-so of tr ^nghlpment
(*rf ; o of fi-h frnn the y onr 19P^ 1 to 19T?, ritiowlng
theroby ihnt the (;md^r rn&torm Contractors of Gnm an-l Jiwii
t^rmpht their o^ti is "-on na of tl air relatives* c^r^o to
t^drr for th^ rnirpos® of tr ^r, "i^nent, The f net f however, is
■tlmt ttiadur rorchmtr, unfit? rtook the customs Contract of (i»am
nnd Jinni J'orts not oRly in 19f 7 ^titel in tho above letter
"but nlso for n ^orlod if il)out rs yanrs previous to that. In
other -ords it is their sols o- 1: for the reason that
owini to their cieot ra-pihical situation, these two ports of tinz
and Jiraii have little or no i ekran interest ml have no
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easy connections ^ith the ^inland of -^-ekran, hence no r ekran
rerchant has "ver co'ae forward to uridertaks the Customs
Contract in question. Home years "co the Customs even
C^adur itself ^as in the hinds of C w adur merchants -tio entered
into contracts rrith the meat State. Iho itove difficulty
would have "been soon ohviated, If ■ rltlsh Mfekran Authorities
hal a^ reed to or hid "been moved to appoint their paid 3tate
Official" at Canr: and Jiwnl instead of l iving the Customs
Contracts of these two ports to ( ^adur merchants ♦iio are now
in trouble on account of their entering, in' o contracts ^rith
the British .nlmn \uthoritlee.
With respect to quotation no. 2 above it may "be
recalled that transhipment la still charged in the case of
cario "brought to tradur for tranship- ent from uwattur, despite
its ha vine a eroner Oustoais lu&lif ••ho normally aeknowledgas
all leiPin^s and nhi 'eings.
The above t"i contentions ^ave impetus to a
private enterprise of startint a steam launch xmxxtv* touching
Can% ji-mi, c^attur and other fishini: hanks of i ekran and
- uscat State and thus solve the cnention oi : transhipment in
question automatically. Accoriiiv-ly steam launch w Said B "by
name and o^ned "bjr Ja^ani Company of Karachi undertook this
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sort of service mith from the ls " b : September 19. 7 ^ade
almost 14 t^
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The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47.
in all but almost every time she came here,
there were incessant troubles about the Lanlint Charges. The
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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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- 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