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'Report on the Development of the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts, for the year 1899-1900' [‎15r] (29/64)

The record is made up of 1 volume (28 folios). It was created in 1900. 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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ON THE NUSHKI, CHAGAI AND WESTERN SINJERANI DISTRICTS, 1899-1900.
83. The programme I had sketched for the winter included a tour down the Perso-Baluch
Frontier to Mashkhel, but the news which I received on my return to Killa Robat on the
IHh March, to the effect that Major Chenevix-Trench had been posted as Her Britannic
Majesty's Consul in Seistan and was on his way to join his appointment, compelled me to
defer this part of my programme to another year and to return to Nushki via the trade route.
Leaving Koh-i-Malik-Siah on the 12th March I returned by the caravan road to Nushki, meet-
in«- Major Trench and his party* at Chah Sandan. I was much pleased to find that the katcha
road, which I had marked out while on my way to the frontier, had reached a point ten miles
west of Mashki Chah.
84. It may not be considered out of place to give here a brief description of the katcha
road to which I have alluded so frequently in the course of the last few pages. The road
consists of a track, varying in breadth from 15 to feet, completely cleared of all stones,
bushes, trees, and boulders, and roughly levelled. M here the road crosses small nullahs the
crossing has been effected by ramping both banks, but in the case of nullahs whose size pre
cluded ^this being done the road has been carried, from side to side, by scarping the banks at
a gradient which offers laden camels no difficulty. Where the country is at all open the
road can be seen winding for miles across the plain. Guides are no longer required on any
section of the road, indeed it is now quite impossible for the most careless traveller to miss
the way.f
85. I reached Quetta on 14th April after an absence of 4| months, during which I have
covered a distance of 1,536 miles without any casualty occurring.J
86. The several suggestions which I have made in this Appendix for the development of
trade by the trade route, enumerated in their order of importance, are as follows :—
(а) The construction of a rough cart road between between Quetta and Nushki.
(б) The erection of a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). near the Quetta Railway Station to be placed on
completion in charge of a smart active reliable native with duties to assist pil
grims, travellers, and traders in every way.
(c) A special allotment of Rs. 5,00Q to be devoted to the realignment of the caravan
road between Merui and Mashki Chah and to providing water at stages of every
ten miles along the road.
(d) A special takavi allotment to be used to extend the area under cultivation by dig
ging karezes and generally in developing the country through which the caravan
route passes.
(«) The extension of the Quetta-Nushki Telegraph System, firstly to Dalbandin, and
afterwards to the Persian Frontier.
87 This Appendix furthermore contains several other suggestions dealing chiefly with
matters without the limits of my Political Assistancy. I would respectfully venture to draw
attention to the more important of these suggestions, which, enumerated in then older o
importance, will be found to deal with the following questions .
(а) The question of posting native agents Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. at selected places in Persian Baluchistan.
(б) The question of opening a temporary post office in Seistan.
(c) The question of establishing direct trade and dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. communication between Kirman
and Quetta.
(d) The question of deputing a surveyor to Khorassan to make a survey of the 1 erso-
Afghan Boundary north of Seistan.
* Included amongst Major Trench’s party was Captain Eenn, I.S.C., who was on his way to
md Meslied.
t Tlii. katclm road took eigkty men .is months to make.
; I find that I am not quite correct in saying that no casualty occurred, as ,t appears one
make bite.
England md Seistan
camel succumbed to

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Report by Captain Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Calcutta at the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1900. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] trade route and follows on from Ware's similar reports of 1897 (Mss Eur F111/362) and 1898 (Mss Eur F111/364).

The report opens with a letter from Ware to the Agent to the Governor General in Baluchistan, Quetta, dated 31 July 1900, in which the main points of the report and certain events of the year are summarised. The report itself consists of four appendices, as follows:

  • I 'On the administration of the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts' (folios 5-7)
  • II 'On the Quetta-Seistan Caravan Route' (folios 8-15)
  • III 'Nushki Trade Returns for the year 1st April 1899 to 31st March 1900' (folios 15-23)
  • IV 'Miscellaneous' (including genealogical tables of the main Seistan and Shorawak families) (folios 24-29).
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1 volume (28 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; 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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