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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [‎119v] (245/380)

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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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Pasni.
Dated, 24th July 1929.
From
Th.e Merchants and f-ublic of fasni
Through '^azi Ahrnad rresident Fish merchacte Fasni.
To
The Superintendent of Post Offices
L. S & rersian (iulf Dv. Karachi.
Sir '
Xle the merchants and public of Pasni teg to "bring our real and
genuine grievanees to your notice with sanguine hope that you will
take an early action in matter.
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TTe also want to assure you beforehand that we are not habitual and
.hired complainants and neither we trouble the officers unnecessarily |
without any subst&ihtial reason, as some of follow merchants are
doing sometime when hired "by someone at a,ny other when a whim or
phomtasy takes neld them.
For some time past the mails ate being heavily delayed as forinstant
(a) On 3.6.29 passengers arrived ashore at 11 a .m. but mails were
delivered to vie people after 3 pm(four hours late}.
("b) On 17.6.29 passengers arrived ashore at 10 am but we get our
mails after 2pm(four hours la.tej.
(e) On 1.7.29 passengers arrived ashore at 12 noon but we got mails
after 5 pm i.e. 5 hours late.
(4) On 15-7-29 passengers arrived ashore at 12 noon but mails were
delivered at and after 7 pm(seven hours late).
(i) We addressed the local PostKaster on the subject but he says
that the delay is caused by the C.J.Roodbhoy Coys employees, (G .J.
Hoodbhoy & Co are KuT; Agents of feackinnnn and tiackin&ie Coy) ano.
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he cannot help.
Home of Fasni merchants who have their own people a t HaracLi c ie
sending to and getting letters from Karachi with passengers and they j
get their letters hours earlier but we who trust the rost Office
with letters and pay the cost of staiaps too ; re Eirde to suf i er arid
tear tne panss of wrltlns for hours. Shese merchants on receipt of ||
r -arachis letter can write the fresh instructions to their asents at |L
Turtat or PanjVur and post their letters which are conveyed hy that \t
lilt
r-pt Tetters after hours when the mails are
days mails Y/hereas we gex xeLocaa
on way to xurbrt and Panjgur.

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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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English in Latin script
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