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'Précis of Mekran Affairs' [43] (55/134)
The record is made up of 1 volume (67 folios). It was created in 1905. 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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43
" Sir Henry Green reported some time back the entrance of the Persian force into
Seistan, and its establishment there. Lately I had the honour of forwarding a letter from
Vide supra. Captain RosSj Assistant
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Mekran.
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"I have since received a further communication, * * forwarding; extract from a
letter from
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Faquir Mahomed, of Kej, to the following effect;—
"' When I came to Parood a letter was received from the Padshaie (Persian authorities)
to furnish 2,000 sheep and 2,000 maunds of ghee for rations for Bampar, as 8,000 troops and
eight guns are coming against Kej. A letter was also written to
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Mir Hossain Khan,
that the army will come by the Sirbaz route ; and to keep the road clear of his men.' It is
possible that nothing is immediately intended in this; that it is only a feeler put out to see
how such action would be received and noticed. But it shows pretty clearly that there'is a
tendency on the part of Persia to attempt to advance its frontier eastwards, which it is
necessary to provide against in every possible way. Copies of Captain Ross's communication
have been forwarded to Colonel Pelly at Bushire, and to Colonel Phayre at Jacobabad, for
information, and for any further intelligence on the subject they may be able to obtain.
Their replies will be forwarded hereafter. It remains now to consider whether anything can
be done to improve the position of the Khan of Kelat."
53. Some weeks later in the same year Captain Ross again addresses the
No. 133 of I2tli October. Commissioner in Sind :—
" The result of my late enquiries is, that the fact of the Bampur Governor, or Serheng,
having expressed in letters to Mir Abdullah of Geh his intention of proceeding against Kej
is confirmed beyond doubt. Two letters were received from Kerman by Mir Abdullah to
that effect. No actual movement of troops has occurred, nor has Ibrahim Kbau himself
returned from Bampur.
" Mir Abdullah has just been ordered by Ibrahim Khan to collect the revenue of his
districts, and repair with it to Bampur to meet Ibrahim Khan.
"The Gitchki Chief, Mir Bayan, of Kej, recently visited Mir Abdullah for the purpose of
speaking to him about the rumoured expedition ; and, I am informed, requested Mir Abdullah
to oppose the project.
"The Chief of Dustyari, with whom I am well acquainted, and who is a reliable
person, has promised to forward me intelligence, should any further steps be taken by the
Persians.
" There is reason to hope that the design, if at first sincerely conceived, will not now be
proceeded with. ,J
54. On a reference being made to Teheran, in consequence of Captain
Mr. Alison, to the Viceroy, 2iBt November Ross's Reports, Her Majesty's Minister
1868. forwarded a Statement addressed to him
self by Mr, Thomson :—
" I informed the Minister for Foreign Affairs that rumours had reached the Khan of
Kelat's officers, which led tbem to apprehend that the Governor of Kerman intended sending
a military force into a portion of the Kelat territory; and I enquired of His Excellency if
there was any foundation for these reports ? He replied that it was usual for the Governor of
Kerman to assemble a small force on the frontiers of Beluchistan from time to time, in order
to maintain his authority in that quarter, and that he had heard of the recent departure of
the Governor from Kerman with this object; but he was not aware that it was his intention
to proceed beyond Bampur with the force under his command. The Kerman Governor's
Reports, however, he said, were forwarded to the Mustofi-ul-Memalik's department, and he
would make enquiries there, and ascertain what information had lately been received from
that province; but he thought that, in a case of this sort, the Khan of Kelat, who had the
means of doing so, if he chose, would have done well to have addressed himself to the
Governor of Kerman directly for any explanations he might require on this subject/'
55. At the commencement of November, the Chief Director of the Indo-
European Telegraph arrived in Bombay from England, and proceeded soon
after, in accordance with instructions, accompanied by the Assistant Political
Agent, to Gwadur, and other parts of the Mekran Coast, to prepare the way
for intended arrangements with the local Chiefs, But the then recent death
of Mir Abdullah, by far the most notable of these, and the delay in nomination
of a successor, rendered it necessary to defer for a time actual negotiations.
No. 225 of 7th December 1868 to Secretary, Eieutenant-Colonel Goldsmid forwarded,
Bombay Government. however, his proposal for further pro-
1869. ceedings; and on his return to Mekran
Eesolution No. 400,5tb February 1869. early in Eebruary, received the instruc
tions of the
Government of Bombay
From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions.
to " deal with the Chiefs, west of Kelat
territory, as he should find most advisable when on the spot,'*
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The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is a précis of affairs relating to Makrān (spelt Mekran throughout) coast in the south of Sindh and Baluchistan. It was prepared by Judge Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Service, and published in 1905 by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in Calcutta.
The volume includes a preface (folio 4) and list of contents (folios 5-6). The volume is divided into chapters and sections as follows:
- Chapter 1: Our early connection with Mekran: (I) Jask, our port of trade with Persia from 1615 to 1622, (II) Captain Grant's mission to Mekran, 1809;
- Chapter 2: Telegraph and Mekran: Persian pretensions: (I) Reverend Mr Badger's reports, 1861, (II) Proposed negotiations with Persia and Mekran Chiefs: completion of the telegraph, (III) Proposed lease or purchase of Gwadur [Gwādar], (IV) Obstruction of the Persian Governor to the progress of the telegraph line - claims of Persia to Gwadur and Charbar [Chābahār], (V) Colonel Goldsmid's report of December 1863 in regard to Persian claims in Mekran, (VI) Colonel Goldsmid's first report of 1864, (VII) Colonel Goldsmid's second report of 1864, (VIII) Colonel Goldsmid's third report of 1864;
- Chapter 3: Agreements with Maskat in regard to telegraphic extension to Bunder Abbas [Bandar ‘Abbās] 1864-65. Colonel Pelly's report on the country from Bunder Abbas to Jask [Jāsk];
- Chapter 4: Negotiations with Persia for telegraphic extension westward from Gwadur, 1865-68. Telegraphic Convention of 1868.
- Chapter 5: Captain Ross's reports about Mekran, 1867-68;
- Chapter 6: Arrangements with local Chiefs as regards the telegraph undersettled state of the country;
- Chapter 7: Perso-Baluchistan boundary dispute settled by a Commision, 1870-72: (I) Persian agreement to demarcate the boundary line by a mixed Commission, 1870, (II) Proceedings of the Commissioners, (III) The Persian Government accepts the line sketched out by General Goldsmid;
- Chapter 8: Telegraph and Persian Baluchistan Chiefs. Internal Disturbances and changes, 1869-95: (I) The Persian Baluchistan Chiefs (including a genealogical table), (II) Disturbances at Jask, 1873, (III) Relations between the various Chiefs, 1883, (IV) Thefts of the telegraph lines in Geh territory, 1883, (V) Certain changes in Chiefs in 1883-84. Death of Sartip Ibrahim Khan [Sartīp Ibrāhīm Khān], 1883-84, (VI) Abul Fath Khan [‘Abd al-Fatḥ Khān], Governor of Bampur [Bampūr], 1886-89, (VII) Rising in Persian Baluchistan, 1889, (VIII) Arrest of several Baluchi Chiefs, 1891, (IX) Internal Affairs from 1891 to 1895. Death of Mir Abdul Nabi [Mīr ‘Abd al-Nabī] of Jask, 1894;
- Chapter 9: Jask Telegraph Station: (I) The detachment of Jask, (II) British control and jurisdiction within the station, 1869, (III) Interference of Persian officials within Jask station limits. Removal of the detachment and agreement about Jask station, 1886-87, (IV) Alleged Persian interference within the Jask station, 1889;
- Chapter 10: Protection of British subjects in Persian Baluchistan: (I) Plunder of British Indians by Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Hossein Khan [ Sardār Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Ḥusayn Khān], appointed Governor of Charbar and Dashtyari [Dashtyārī] in place of Din Mahomed [Dīn Muḥammad], (II) Murder of a British Indian subject at Baku, 1882, (III) Plunder of Hindu traders of Dizzak and Geh, 1884, (IV) Seizure at Charbar of Doshambi, sailor of a British Indian vessel. Arrangements for his release, (V) Dharmu Mulchand's case, 1889-89;
- Chapter 11: Rising of Baluchi Chiefs. Anarchy in Persian Mekran. Murder of Mr Graves. British detachments stationed at Jask and Charbar. British policy, 1897-98: (I) Rising of Baluchi tribes, (II) Murder of Mr Graves and measures taken to trace and punish the murderers, December 1897 - January 1898, (III) Detachment sent to Jask and Charbar, January 1898, (IV) Unauthorised action of Commander Baker of the Sphinx in landing a force at Gulag and proceeding with it to Rapch, February 1898, (V) Operations against the insurgent and punishment of the murderers, (VI) Indemnity of the murder of Mr Graves, (VII) Rewards to Persian officers for services rendered in Mr Graves's murder case, 1898-99;
- Chapter 12: Changes in payment of telegraph subsidy. Settlement of outstanding claims of the British Indian subjects against Perso-Baluch Chiefs. Arrest of the remaining two murderers of Mr Graves. Detachment at Jask and Charbar. Deaths of several Chiefs, 1899.
- Chapter 13: State of the districts through which the telegraph line passes from Gwettur to Jask, 1909-04;
- Chapter 14: Gwadur and Charbar affairs: (I) Early history of Gwadur and Charbar, (II) Azan bin Ghias [‘Azzān bin Qays]'s attempts to take Gwadur and Charbar, 1869-70, (III) Seyyid Turki [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd]'s rights to Charbar, (IV) Persian pretensions to Gwadur and Charbar. Demarcation of boundary line between Khelat [Kelāt] and Persia. Capture of Charbar by the Persians, (V) Question of rendition of Gwadur to the Khan of Khelat, (VI) Reported intention of the Russian Government to place an agent in charge of the Customs at Gwadur;
- Chapter 14: British Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Mekran.
There is one appendix on folio 63, which is a report by Edward Charles Ross, Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Muscat and Khelat, dated 31 January 1886, entitled 'Report on the nature of the Trade at Gwadur and the probably amount of its Revenues'. This relates to Chapter 5 where the report is discussed.
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- 1 volume (67 folios)
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The contents of the précis are arranged in rough chronological order, and organised under a number of chapters and section headings, with each paragraph numbered from 1 to 331. There is one appendix (folios 63-64). There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (folios 5-6) which lists the chapters and sections with their corresponding paragraph numbers.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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