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Coll 20/25 'Muscat: Kalat-Gwadar Relations' [127r] (253/407)
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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, ^ G^Py °f a memorandum No.2327, dated the 18th October
1938. from ¥azir-i-Azam, Kalat State, to the Political
Agent in Kalat.
Subject:- G-wadur boundary.
Reference correspondence ending with my memorandum
No.2268, dated the 10th instant.
2. Your Express letter No.4888 dated the 26th September
1938 sho?/s that the position at Gwadur is at present in a
state of such confusion as to require clarifying to enable a
correct conclusion to be arrived at. The actual facts as can
be gleaned from the different versions and correspondence,
printed and otherwise, lead one to believe that Gwadur port
and its hinterland formed part of the territory which was
undeniably included in the borders of the Kalat State and
that the income of the port of Gwadur was allowed by the
then Khan of Kalat to be enjoyed hy for his maintenance by a
relative of the then Sultan of Muscat, who had left Muscat
and come to the court of Kalat as a refugee about the end
of the eighteenth century. The practice of the Khans of
Kalat has been, and still is, to grant a sanad to the person
on whom they bestowed grants of land or jagir showing
pretty well a the area thus bestowed with a clear indication
of the boundaries of such area. This being the case, the
Sanad of the then Khan of Kalat conferrirg the enjoyment
of the income of Gwadur to the refugee relative of the
Sultan of Muscat must be in possession of the present Sultan
and can no doubt be produced by him. This Sanad will not
only show the extent of the Kalat territory given as a
jagir to the Muscat refugee for his subsistence, but will
also show that the concession was given in the same manner
as such concessions were granted, and are even now granted,
by the rulers of Kalat to their subordinate Sardars and other
personages. The grant of such concessions did not, and does
not, mean that the Khans relinquished their suzerain powers
anf and rights over the areas, but that on the other hand
it always meant that the Khan retained, as they do even now,
their suzerainty over them and thus possessed the powers
of either allowing, at their discretion, the continuance or
discontinuance of the concession. This will show tint Gwadur
is a-jagir granted by the Khan of Kalat to a refugee of
standing ...
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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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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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- 155r:156v, 127r:129v, 119r:120v
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- Wazir-i-Azam
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