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'Memorandum by the Rev. G. P. Badger on the Pretensions of Persia in Beloochistan and Mekran, drawn up with especial reference to her Claim to Gwadur and Charbar' [6v] (12/20)
The record is made up of 1 file (10 folios). It was created in Dec 1863. 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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Art. 9. Should the Governors of Pars, or the Governors of -Kirman, on any
important occasion, wish to despatch troops towards Catch, or Mekran,* or Be-
loochistan, they shall be treated with the respect due to Governors, and shall be
supplied with provisions, guides, and escorts.
Art. 10. Should the Governor of Shiraz have cause to complain of the conduct
of the Governor of Bunder Abbas, the Imaum of Muscat, on being informed thereof,
shall, without any excuse, immediately remove him, and shall appoint another
person in his place, who shall also be subject to the Governor of Shiraz, as were
the Governors who preceded him.
Art. 11. Should any of the subjects of Laristan, or of Es-Sebaa, or of the
province of Pars, or any of the subjects of Kirman, take refuge within any of the
above-mentioned limits, the^ Governors of those places, on being apprised thereof
shall send them back to their respective homes.
Art. 12. This Treaty, regarding Bunder Abbas, and all the conditions therein
set forth, are to be held as restricted to the person of Seyyed Saeed, who is now
living, and to his children, and as applicable to them and them only. Should any
other rule over Muscat, Bunder Abbas and the islands are not to be his, but they
are to be at the disposal of the Ministers of the State. J
Art. 13. Whilst Bunder Abbas, and Shemeel, and Minau, and the two
maritime islands shall be in the hands of any officer of the Imaum of Muscat he
shall not give passage there to any agent of the foreign Governments • but
he shall engage to guard and protect the above-named places both by sea and
land. _ And wherever there is a safe anchorage, in any of the places under
his jurisdiction, he shall maintain ships of war there, always ready to prevent the
entrance of any foreign enemy, and shall especially guard against treachery at all
times and by all available means. And, further, he shall not suffer any enemy
from among the Arabs, or from any foreign State, to enter the above named limits
and should they attempt to enter the soil of Iran, he shall not permit it but shall
prevent their doing so. ’
Art. 14 The Imaum of Muscat has not the right to make over Bunder Abbas
and the other places above named to any foreign Government, or to any other
parties, even under the foregoing conditions. The jurisdiction over them is con
fined to himself personally, to those appointed by him, and to his kinsmen subiect
to the conditions above set forth. ’ J
Art. 15. The
Banyan
Merchant of Indian extraction.
who farms the customs of Muscat shall not levy anv
duty on goods which do not enter Muscat, and which are taken to India or else
where.
Art. 16. The property seized at Kishm* shall be sent to Bunder Abbas and
* During the late war between m£K ! e ° f ver AR 1 ’ 0 , 01 Muhammed, the head
Seyyed Saeed and the Persians. .j 6 who shall send it to Bushire, in
order that it may be restored to its owners.
Written in the month of Shaaban, A. H. 1272 [A.D. 1856].
True translation from the Arabic version.
(Signed) George Percy Badger.
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This file consists of a memorandum by George Percy Badger (scholar and missionary) concerning Persian claims in Beloochistan [Baluchistan] and Mekran [Makran], particularly Gwadel or Gwadur [Gwādar] and Charbar [Chābahār]. It contains the following: a history of Persian encroachments in Beloochistan; a table outlining the political divisions of the maritime provinces of Mekran, and their respective governments; an assessment of Persia's jurisdiction on the Mekran Coast; details of the sovereignty of Gwadur; a discussion of hostilities between Persia and the Sultan of Muscat over Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and other dependencies; a summary of the 1856 treaty between Persia and Muscat. A map depicting the political geography of Mekran is included on folio 5.
The appendices include:
- a translation of the treaty between His late Highness Seyyed Saeed [Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd] and the Persian Government, relating to Bunder Abbas, etc., dated 1856;
- a report by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic John Goldsmid on the claims of Persia, Khelat [Kalat], and Muscat, to sovereign rights on the Mekran Coast;
- extracts from Lieutenant-Colonel Goldsmid's diaries on defining boundaries and districts;
- a memorandum on Western Mekran by Lieutenant-Colonel Goldsmid.
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- 1 file (10 folios)
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This file consists of a single memorandum (f 1-5), with appendices at the back (f 6-10).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 10; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Memorandum by the Rev. G. P. Badger on the Pretensions of Persia in Beloochistan and Mekran, drawn up with especial reference to her Claim to Gwadur and Charbar'
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- 6r:6v
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- Badger, George Percy
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