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Coll 20/25 'Muscat: Kalat-Gwadar Relations' [93r] (185/407)
The record is made up of 1 file (201 folios). It was created in 28 Aug 1936-1 Apr 1948. 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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So far as the latter point is concerned, there appears ^
to nie to be good grounds for the State authorities con
tent-on and I have advised them to try the npurderer
themselaes* J n / J
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3. The question of the dwadur boundary is discussed at
length on pages 280 and 281 of the Gazetteer .of ..Lakran and
T enclose a map showing the three boundaries described
and also the boundary as at present claimed by Kalat State
Zhefacts appepr to tree that in 1783 the then Khan of
iv ,at allowed Saiyed Sultan to settle in Gwadur as a re
fugee and assigned to him the revenues of the place.
When Saiyed Sultan returned to Muscat and usurped the
SulUan-ale he retained possession of Gwadur and
since then he and his successors have bern endeavouring
to enlarge their dominion by constant encroachments - a
process which is still going on. Tt is difficult for the
Kalat State authorities to deal with such encroachments
as the country is mostly desSfcand unless^awake they fail
to ascertain xx what is go-?ng on # LJfoi
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4. My personal view is that although the sovereignty of
the Sultan of Muscat over Gwadur cannot #now be disputed
we must # resist any encroachments into ^alat territory
and limit the Sultan s dominion to that area over which
he appears on good evidence to have exercised sway more
or less continuously in the past.
would accordingly propose that for practical pur-
poses(the red pencil line m the enclosed map should be
treated as the boundary. This appears to have been the
boundary which the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
of the Gazetteer regarded as
the generally accepted one at the beginning or the cen-
f tury. So far as is kjiown nothing has occured since which
establishes the Sultan’s claim to any territory beyond %
this line. Sven if demarcation were to take ;jlace it is
very unlikely that the Commission appointed for the pur
pose would find anything more reliable on which to base
their decisions than what is stated in the Gazetteer.
6. 1 would not propose that either the Khan of Kalat
or the Sultan of unseat should be asked to accept this
boundary as it is certain neither of them would agree to
do so. but merely that it should be treated by political
officers in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and Baluchistan as the
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Correspondence, notes, and memoranda relating to relations between Kalat State and Gwadur [Gwadar], the latter being part of the Sultan of Muscat's territory.
- the Kalat State's request for postal and telegraphic offices to be established at Jiuni [Jīwanī] and for British India Steam Navigation Company steamers to make fortnightly calls there
- the Burmah Oil Company Limited's application for an oil prospecting licence in the Gwadur area
- the demarcation of the boundary between the two territories, necessitated largely by oil exploration
- the Sultan's complaints about a blockade of Gwadur by the Kalat State and encroachments over the border by Kalat State officials and American geologists
- arrangements for a meeting between the Sultan of Muscat and the Khan of Kalat (which never took place)
- the Royal Air Force's use of facilities in Gwadur and Jiwani
- the question of the strategic importance of Gwadur to the British and whether to induce the Sultan to sell the enclave back to the Kalat State
- the status of Kalat following India's independence and the creation of the Dominion of Pakistan, including a memorandum by the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, dated 12 September 1947, that deals with the legislative and political relations between certain 'Princely States' and the Dominion of India (folios 42-51).
The principal correspondents include the Government of India (External Affairs Department), Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 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 Kalat and Chagai, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, 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, Admiralty, Air Ministry, British Agent at Gwadur, Commonwealth Relations Office, and the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Pakistan.
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- 1 file (201 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 203; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-203; these numbers are also written in pencil and circle.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 20/25 'Muscat: Kalat-Gwadar Relations'
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- front, front-i, 2r:63v, 64v:118v, 121r:126v, 130r:145v, 147r:154v, 157r:182v, 185r:203r, back-i, back
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