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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' [‎16r] (31/64)

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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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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'Report on the Development of the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts, for the year 1899-1900' [‎16r] (31/64), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/374, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100065028790.0x000020> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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