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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [‎150v] (307/380)

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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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/ 8 ee paragrajis 10 and 11 on the sane letter.
/
4, ihe Jfliimji murder was inreBtigated thorouglaly.
I vtomd up with the depositions of 4 witnesses produced More
than a year after the murder had taken place { ray letter Mo.
f 47-C of 3rd March 1931). 'rhe case was finally closed toy
J\r
Ln> the decision of Mr. Ho%ell i irlde his letter of 23rd April
forwarded to Muscat hy the (lovemment of India under endorse-
/ ment Mo.f.42S-^/20) # and I trust that you said no tiling to
r
y the Khojas to encourage them to think that it would be re-
f
opened. With regard to the defilement of the. grare-yard
* the outrage might have been committed toy any mischieTous
^ individual" ( see paragraph 8 of my if.o.Ko.K,49 of 15th
'!September).
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5, With regard to the murder of Ghulam Ali please
study the enquiry which ShaiJsh Zubair and I made ( Tide my
iy letter Ho.72-C of 17th larch 1931 to the Political Hesident).
though over 30 witnesses werejexamined there was nothing to
show that the Baluchis had a hand in this, and the murderer
say ^ust as well haw been a Khoja. You will note that my
impression was that the Agha Khanis seemed to have something
to conceal, at any rate, they did not give much assistance
in our enquiries.
i.ii
6. I do not agree in your estimate of the British
Agent. l|y opinion of him is contained in paragraph 8 of my
(t letter ^©•97-C of 18th floveraber 1930. I think that it would
have been better if you had reserved your opinion until you
had had more experience of his work anc of Gwadur in general.
7 * I think you were <pite correct in getting the
Baluchi night watchman changed for Arabs, if the latter
are .

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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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