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Mir ’Abdulla II was succeeded in the sardarship by Mir NaVab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Khcn.
The latter was a son of Mir Isa, who was a great-grandson of Mir Mihrab
Khan, the fourth 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. of Jalk.
At this period Mir Alam Khan (father of 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. Dilavar Khan, of Eizak)
conspired with Mir Gajian, Naushirvani (the father of Shirdil Khan, of
Kalaghan, and own brother of the famous 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. Azad of Kharan) to depose
Mir Navab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. , and being successful, they killed him.
This treachery appears all the blacker, as Mir Navab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. s wife was Mir
Gajian’s sistei. On Mir Navab’s assassination, the people of Jalk
elected Mir Maddat Khan, son of Mir ’Abdulla II, as_sardai\
He, in revenge for the death of his cousin, killed Mir Gajian.
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. Azad Khan of Kharan, on hearing of the assassination of his
brother, marched an army of Naushirvanis against Mir Maddat Khan to
exact vengeance. Mir Maddat Khan being quite helpless and unable to
cope with Azad Khan, gave BalaKalat (the then largest village of Kalaghan,
vide account of that district) to Azad Kh§.n in settlement of the blood-feud,
and the latter returned to Kharan, no blood having been shed.
Shortly after this, Mir Alam Khan succeeded is seizing Mir Maddat Khan
by treachery, and sent him to Bampur, where he eventually died as
a prisoner. Mir Alam Khan then seized Jalk, which, together with Kalaghan
he constituted as part and parcel of his own district of Dizak, and since
that time they have formed simply sub-districts of the latter.
Thus Mir Alam Khan w r as the tenth hakim of Jalk, and the fifth hakim
of Dizak, i . e ., since the time of Niamatullah (see account of DIzak), and
this was the first time that one man ruled both Dizak and Jalk. After the
blood-feud between the now deposed Mir Maddat Khan and 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. Azad
Khan, by the cession to the latter of Bala Kalat, a great friendship had
sprung up between these sardars, and in consequence Azad Khan was much
enraged at the seizure and deposition of Mir Maddat Kh .n, especially so,
as Mir Alam Khan refused to recognize his rqht to Bala Kalat.
The result was that Azad Khan marched an army against Kalaghan, raided
that district, and partially destroyed the fort of Liji. This happened about
1857 A.D. _ . . .
From that period till his death, Mir ’Alam KhSn. resided in Dizak
and his son Sard&r Dilavar Khan in Jalk, whence he, under his father,
ruled that place as well as Kalaghan.
On Mir ’Alam Khan being gathered to his fathers, Dilavar Khan succeed
ed him and took up his residence at Dizak, while he in his turn has been
succeeded by his son Mir ’Abdulla Khan, who was 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. in 1902,
under the nominal overlordship of the Governor-General of Persian
Baldchistan. # ... ,
The authority of the latter, however, in the outlying border districts or
his province, is a very shadowy one, and can usually only be insisted
on by force. In 1902, Persian troops visited Jalk and destroyed the
forts of Hushab and Dashtak, but on the advice of Major Showers, the
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. of Kalat, left those of Kuhkan and Shishriz untouched.
It may here be mentioned that in 1896 a Boundary Commission under
Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich, visited Jalk, and delimitated the frontier
east of that place, by which the much disputed date-groves of Maehkid fell