'Report on the Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] Trade Route, for the year 1900-1901' [4r] (7/32)
The record is made up of 1 volume (14 folios). It was created in 1901. 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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No. 973 of 1901.
From
CAPTAIN F. C. WEBB-WAIiE, I.S.C.,
Political Assistant, Chagai,
To
CAPTAIN A. McCONAGHEY, I.S.C.,
First Assistant to the Honourable the Agent to the
Governor-General in Baluchistan.
Quetta, the 17th August 1901.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit, for favourable consideration and orders, my
annual report on the development of trade by the Nushki-Seistan trade route.
2. The trade returns for the year 1900-01,* which amount to Its. 15,34,452,
show an improvement, in value, of three
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
over the returns for
the preceding twelve months. The total reached by trade during the year
1898-99 was Es. 7,28,082; thus trade through Nushki has doubled in value in
the space of two years, a result which cannot fail, I think, to be considered
satisfactory.
3. The instructions conveyed me on the subject of entering in the monthly
trade returns the destination of goods exported from Baluchistan through
Nushki reached me in November last, and thus too late in the year to enable
me to make the necessary corrections. The Honourable the Agent to the Gover
nor-General’s orders on this subject have been, however, carefully noted and
the new year’s returns are being prepared in accordance with them.
4. The diminution in crime of a serious nature noted in my previous reports
has been maintained. Eaids have almost ceased, and robberies are now of rare
occurrence. I would venture to draw special attention to the recommendations
I make in paragraphs 40 and 62 of the appendix attached on the subject of
guarding the trade route from attack from Sarhad, and of granting the Damani
Chief a monthly service allowance.
5. My report this year differs in several particulars from the reports I have
submitted in previous years, for firstly, the administration portion of the report
has been eliminated, in accordance with the instructions conveyed me in
Foreign Department letter No. 53-F., dated 8th January 1901, and secondly, a
few notes have been added, by the desire of the Honourable the Agent to the
Governor-General, to the appendix which deals with the year’s trade returns.
I regret that these notes do not cover more ground than they do, but the distance
* The trade returns which are referred to in this letter and in the Report which accompanies it, have been published
in the Gazette of India, dated the 9th November 1901.
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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, 1901. The annual report concerns the conditions and development of the Quetta-Seistan trade route and follows on from Ware's similar reports of 1897 (Mss Eur F111/362), 1898 (Mss Eur F111/364), and 1899-1900 (Mss Eur F111/374). The report opens with a letter from Ware to Captain A McConaghey, First Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, dated 17 August 1901, in which the main points of the report are summarised and a brief account of the year is given.
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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 16; 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.
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