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‘Masqat Arms Traffic. 1908–1909.’ [9r] (22/128)
The record is made up of 1 volume (60 folios). It was created in 1909. It was written in English and French. 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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7
Here it came into collision with 270 Sistanis under
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.
Purdil Khan,
but forcing its way through these without loss or difficulty reached Afghan
territory by
Puzeh-Kun*i-Dagal.
Dasht-i-Mahi.
Dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
-i-Dila (on the Helmand).
8. The main Afghan Arms caravan consisting of some 1,500 camels with
about 1,200 men and carrying about 50,000 rifles and 2 million rounds of
ammunition, most of which had been landed in the vicinity of Jashk, started from
the coast at the beginning of May 1908 and proceeding by two routes one
being via :—
Angushki,
Sirik,
Taling,
Jaghin,
Manujan,
and the other by—
Jaghdan,
Anguran,
assembled at Chah-i-Malik 10 miles south-east of Rigan on the 22nd May.
On the 26th May it was attacked at Dashtak by 50 Persians under Shaukat-ul-
Mamalik but after a skirmish proceeded unharmed to Garagheh via :—
Shuru,
Mazarab,
Gurg,
Nasratabad Sipi.
At Garagheh the caravan split up into two parties in order to facilitate the
march through the difficult country between that place and the Helmand.
The river was reached by one party on the gth June via :—
Tappeh-i»Khak-i-Darvish.
Rigavak.
Dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
-i-Dila.
And by the other party on the nth June via
Baluch Ab (Pain).
Shila.
Dasht-i-Tarakhun.
Bandar-i-Kamal Khan.
It was reported later that the
Dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
-i Dila party marched for Herat and the
BandarT-Kamal Khan party for Ghazni.
9. A small caravan headed by one Jodha a Kubdani crossed, in May 1908,
a corner of Baluchistan into Afghanistan. From jalk he appears to have taken
the following route
Talab River.
Talab Spr.
Nodu.
Borghar where he crossed the trade route.
Darana Koh,
Zireh.
Bandar-i-Kamal Khan.
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Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909.
The first report is entitled Statistics regarding the Masqat [Muscat] Arms Traffic (Revised.) (ff 4-16), and contains several appendices and fold-out tables giving details of: caravan routes along which arms trafficking is carried out on the Makran coast; total values of arms and ammunition imported into Muscat and other Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ports; importers and (European) exports of arms.
The second report is entitled Special Reports on the Masqat Arms Traffic, Season 1908-09 (ff 17-60), and comprises a number of reports on the arms trade through Muscat, submitted by ‘secret agents’, and a map illustrating the arms traffic from Muscat to Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan (f 59). The report also includes two appendices, lettered G and H. Appendix G is a letter (in French) dated 28 October 1907, from M Pick to Messieurs Malcom and Company of Muscate [Muscat]. Appendix H comprises lists (in French) of arms for sale, with prices given in French francs.
The voluime includes a map illustrating the Muscat arms traffic, dated 1909, indicating routes taken by the Muscat arms trade from the Persian (Makran) coast and inland, into Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan (f 59).
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- 1 volume (60 folios)
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 62; 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: this part also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- ‘Masqat Arms Traffic. 1908–1909.’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:35v, 38v:61v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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