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‘Seistan Persia & Seistan’ [81v] (167/617)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (301 folios). It was created in 22 Jun 1896-3 Mar 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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who had fled from the field. Unfortunately this person subsequently escaped r
and has taken refuge in Persia.
7 The Nazim of Makran, accompanied hy several loyal Chiefs, who had
been kssisting him, reached Colonel Mayne’s camp on the 1st of February
TIigss loyal Chiefs woro Mir Abdul Karim, Gitchki, tho Khan of Kalats Kaib
of Kej, Mir Slier Muhammad, Gitchki, of Nasirabad, Mir Kamal Khan, Bizenjo,
Mir Khan Muhammad Gazkandi, Rind, from Mand, Mir Mazar Khan,
Boledi, Mir Ghulam Muhammad, Naosherwani,' etc. The rebellion was for
the time completely broken hy Colonel Miayne s success at Gok Piusht,
and the troops were subsequently employed as described in Lieutenant Knox’s
report (No. 921-B., dated the 6th instant, attached) in marching about the
country re-asserting the Khan of Kalat’s authority, and in supporting Lieu
tenant Knox in rewarding the loyal and in punishing the guilty.
8. The causes of this rising seem to have been as follows :—Mir Baluch
Khan, Naosherwani, had been granted a fort called Bit in the district of Boleda
in Mekran by the Khan of Kalat. This fort was occupied by Mir Azim Khan,
Boledi, who held a sanad for its possession from the Khan of Kalat, and con
sequently refused to give it up. When the question was referred to the Agent
to the Governor-General, it was given against Mir Baluch Khan, and this
incensed him against the Nazim, as he considered that he was responsible for
the decision. Mehrab Khan, Gitchki, is young, headstrong and an intriguer.
He considers that he would have been Chief of the Kej Gitchkis if we (as re
presented hy the late Sir Robert Sandeman) had not interfered to place his
elder brother, Sheikh Omar, in that position. It seems certain that Mehrab
Khan had been nominated by his father to the Chieftainship as being a far
more capable man than Sheikh Omar. This, and apparently some quarrels with
the Nazim, induced Mir Mehrab Khan to seize the opportunity of Dewan
Udho Hass* being alone and comparatively unprotected, to make bun a prisoner,
and seize Turbat fort.
The leading men of Kej were the third factor in the rebellion, as they
disapproved of the Nazim’s system of taking revenue from all ranks alike ; for
the old practice, which was in force before the present form of Government
had been established, consisted in the Khan’s Naib making the various Chiefs
of the petty Baluch tribes agents for the collection of revenue from their
Various tribesmen, for which work they enjoyed immunity from taxation.
Another cause of the recent rising, and failure of our present arrange
ments in Makran, is the undoubted unpopularity of the Nazim. I do not say
that Dewan Udhq Dass is a bad or corrupt officer, but he has the misfortune
H >ndu ruling a Mussulman district, and as such was out of toueh
with the people, and seems to have been lacking in sympathy with them. It
appears a doubtiul policy to place a Hindu over a Muhammadan population,
and we have seen the experiment fail before in Baluchistan, where I need only
. e f xa f n J! e , of La s Bela, m wliieh State a very good and able Hindu
officia! quite failed as
Wazir
Minister.
, and where he has been successfully followed by
ad t - 1 “p U'e above causes, the unrest, which existed along
and the news that ar, 11 p 0t lM d ' aIa rk ye ^' SeemS t0 baTe reaclled to Makran,
Eastern Pol and (Ml \ Graves ) ],a<1 been murdered in South-
en-aked wltlthelnki.Tk ° |,S T' 6 , lK : avil .''> a ' ld always successfully,
engaged with the 1 athan tribesmen, tended to excite men’s minds, and led to
a belief that we were soon to he driven into the sea Tt is s,™ • • fi
fore, that, when the Makranis heard that the K ' s not suipnsing, there-
* 9. Me now come to the consideration of tho. Vww i i • i xi
Khan of Kalat shall control Makran for ,h„ L lT k V, wlu f, tbe
the late Sir Robert Sandeman and Sir James P™ lh f P lan advocated '>?
tion of revenue and - , Browne was to leave the collec-
ihuu ui ievenue ana toe executive charse of tli^ i i c
Khan’s Naibs hot to nlnn* ^ aistl ict m the hands of the
& xidios, out to place in Makran an Ln°lish Polift’r.ni nm „ t i
by a small escort of about 350 men and <„! ““ 1 0fflcei > supported
Army. This officer would he able, in ^
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The volumes contain papers relating to Persia [Iran], including Seistan, and the tract of land south of the Baluch-Afghan boundary between Nushki and Persia, which had become British territory following the demarcation of the Afghan-Baluch border.
The papers largely consist of printed copies of correspondence between the Governor General of India in Council (Government of India Foreign Department) and the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), and enclosed correspondence and papers.
Letters from the Governor General of India in Council to the Secretary of State for India include:
- Number 170, 16 September 1896, relating to the opening up of a trade route between Nushki and the Persian frontier, crossing the tract of British territory south of the Baluch-Afghan boundary, and the protection of the newly-demarcated frontier, with enclosed memorandum by Captain Arthur Henry McMahon, British Commissioner, Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission, containing his proposals for the management and administration of the tract and for the protection of the trade route
- Number 58, 31 March 1898, concerning the trade route between Baluchistan and Persia, including the suggestion that Consular Agents should be appointed at central points along it between Seistan and Meshed, with enclosures including a report by Lieutenant Frank Webb-Ware, Political Assistant at Chagai, on his visit to Seistan at the beginning of 1896, and the measures introduced for the development of trade between Baluchistan and Persia (which includes a blueprint map, Mss Eur F111/350, f 33)
- Number 163, 15 September 1898, forwarding copies of papers regarding the situation in Makran and Panjgur, following recent ‘disturbances’ in Makran.
The file also includes:
- Copies of Government of India Foreign Department papers numbered 40-58 relating to the Kerman Consulate and British interests in Southern Persia, including correspondence between the Government of India Foreign Department and the Secretary of State for India
- A letter from the Secretary of State for India to the Governor General of India in Council, with enclosed despatch from Sir (Henry) Mortimer Durand, HM Minister at Tehran, to the Foreign Office, dated 12 February 1899, in which he gives his opinion on suggestions for the appointment of additional consular officers in Persia (this includes a map titled ‘Skeleton Map of Telegraph Lines in Persia.’ Mss Eur F111/350, f 187)
- A letter from Durand to the Secretary to the Foreign Department of the Government of India, 24 February 1899, enclosing a copy of his memorandum (with appendices) drawn up in 1895 on the situation in Persia, and the steps he proposed should be taken to improve the British position there
- Copies of a draft despatch from the Governor General of India in Council, 2 September 1899, regarding relations between Great Britain and Persia, including improving the British Political and Consular service in Persia, and the extent of the share of responsibility for Persia that should be devolved upon the Government of India, followed by printed comments upon the draft
- Copies of a minute by George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of India, on Seistan, dated 4 September 1899, including the question of a railway connection between India and Seistan
- Handwritten pencil notes by Curzon relating to Persia and the ‘Seistan Question’.
In addition to the two maps noted above, the file also includes the following maps: map of the area south of the border between Afghanistan and Baluchistan (Mss Eur F111/350, f 300); map of the area west of the border between Persia and Afghanistan (Mss Eur F111/350, f 301); and ‘Route Plan of Robat Nala’ (Mss Eur F111/350, f 302).
- Extent and format
- 2 volumes (301 folios)
- Arrangement
Most of volume A is arranged in reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume (from folios 6 to 76); volume B is arranged is rough chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: this file consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover of volume one (ff 1-150) and terminates at the inside back cover of volume two (ff 151-304); 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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- ‘Seistan Persia & Seistan’
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- front , back , spine, edge , head , tail, front-i, 2r:32v, 34r:62v, 64r:84r, 86r, 89r:93v, 96r:96v, 99v:100v, 101v:128v, 129v:149v, back-i, front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 152r:186v, 188r:189r, 190r:299v, 303r:304v, back-i
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