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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [152v] (311/380)
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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places have their "lorts". In Muscat for example - or rather
Muttra, which are merely special carters of the town,
surrounded toy a Wall, in which the larger portions of the
coEsiaunity live together. What it means then in awaclur is
that those Khojas who live outside the fort at ni^it go in
and double up with their nei^ibours. This As of course
inconvenient for them, but. I very much doubt if they do it
as a regular thing. It is a common practice of the iSho^as
at Gwadur on the arrival of a Political officer, or M.M.
ship# to go into the fort in order to impress the visitors
with the urgency of their ease* isven after the murater of
ahulum Ali for instance, they had been living outside the
fort. On my arrival a few days later they imuediately
scuttled into it» The Agha Khanis are always read/ to let
fly a stream of vague accusations • especially to a new
officer*. i^toen it cemes down to details however, and they
are asked to give their grievances categorically, they
cannot produce very much ( vide paragraph 7 of my letter
Mo.97-0 of 18th MoveRiber). Md you empire from them
idiether, since the date of my last visit to awadur, the
Baluchis had molested them in any way ? On this subject •
i.e. general molestation - all they could complain of to me
was that sometimes some of the more ignorant of the Baluchis
were rude to them, Had they anthing more serious to
complain of to you this time ? presumably not as you did
not mention it*
11. With regard to the flitui e* The crux of the
situation is that while we are of course prepared to look
after the interests of the Agha Khanis, and to press the
Muscat Government to take adequate action when incidents
happen
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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