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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [‎51r] (106/380)

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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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his sons arrcashed \7riting sinilar petitions against
;adhi' DK.fi uhanr iad#
It was again '^"bdur llasul the cld.-st son of
Kohda Mirom who orrjanised, infuriated and led the riotor
to the VVJLi ♦s house in the afternoon of the riot day to
protest against the plastering of the mosque with hmaaa
dung, .J.though Vali did not "betake himself to inspect the
mosque at all or send a timely word to me or to take
effective measures to ensure the dispersal of the riotors
yet everybody is satisfied here that Police-less as he
then was or is, lie tried his "best to quiten the people
and advised them to go hack to their homes and promised
them to do justice after consulting with me. He"sent me
a word but alass the mescen^er l I oiig with all Ilolidas
reached me after the outrage had "been committee and I load
not the least knowledge of it - it "being Sunday on the
first riot day I was at my "be owing to my sore eyes.
Tbere are reasons to "believe that ■Ahdur
Hasul who was then at the head of all the riotors could
easily control the moh when they dispersed at the command
of ali, hut alass ho is allejed to stir up the passions
of the infuriated and impatient men instead of quieten
ing the
In fact Kohda Uahraia or his "brother Kohdas
ha' no "business to come over to me on the evening of the
riot day, alonj with the messenger of \7ali. Tkioy said
that they oamo to advise is to inspect the mosque which
•.ali did not choose to, inspect. Evidently this was not
my concern.Sie fact, however, is that they were puzisled
over the outrage that had "boon committed before their
arrival but they tried to conceal the same from me.
"vgain had they "been sincere at heart, they would have
preferred to remain at the heads of the ir men who were
got ey.cited and infuriated "by the ahettors, so as to
check the possibility of an outrage.
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To begin with it may frankly "be stated
that neither this Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. has any personal grudge against
the ol<: 'iative assistant, nor has he any such complaint
against this Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. or my llunshi against v-hom he has
started the .propaganda work.
i
ifow the natural question is why he
intrigues and creates all those troubles. Just as he
did create in my pre-' ecessor*3 time,, as 'Juliammad Sian
the son of the late r:aja Li-.l Ilian and some well wishers
of thi j . agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. informed me on xoy arrival here. Sie
answer is a simple one and it is that the old Hative
Assistant wanted to kill two birds with a stone by
creating those troubles vii:
a) To take revenge from the enemies of
his "dr llasr t Gul by entangling them in trouble and
thus clearing the ground in his estimation, llie enemies
of his r, i • are and are Ilohda •Abdullah Allah Balaish and
ac?hi. Against the latter he got annanynoas lottei's .
.ritton : nd against the former he scat forged a
false letter in his name Laid sent the same to the
big est authority in the Gulf, so as to entrap him
in trouble.
(u) To get his own son ^tew^iuliah employed
as a llmshi of this Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , It was to secure this end

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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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