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'Report on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts for the year 1897-98 and on the Development of The Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] Trade Route' [3v] (6/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (72 folios). It was created in 1898. 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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the question of Russian opposition so closely affects the further development
of the trade route, I have devoted a separate appendix to briefly discussing
the question in its various bearings.
7. The famine, which has for upwards of two and half years prevailed
over the districts of Chagai and Western Sinjerani as well as in Kharan and
a portion of N ushki, has now come to an end, but nearly one-third of the live
stock in the districts affected has been destroyed.
8. I trust that the measures which I have adopted to develop and
protect the trade route will meet with your approval.
9. Four appendices are attached :—
I. On the administration of the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani
Districts.
II. On the Quetta-Seistan trade route.
III. Regarding the question of appointing
Native Agents
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
and News-
Writers in S-E. Persia, and the effect which such appointments
would be likely to have on the present position in that country.
IV. Nushki Trade Returns from the month 1st April 1897 to 31st March
1898.
I ha ve the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
F. C. WEBB WARE, Lieut.,
Political Assistant, Chagai.
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Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1898. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan trade route and follows on from Ware's similar report of 1897 (Mss Eur F111/362).
The report opens with a letter from Ware to the Agent to the Governor General in Baluchistan, Quetta, dated 18 June 1898, in which the main points of the report are summarised. The report itself consists of four appendices, as follows:
- I 'On the Administration of the Nuskhi, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts', with information on the history of tribes, water-supply for irrigation, lands, crops, and revenue (folios 4-12)
- II 'On the Quetta-Seistan Caravan Route' (folios 13-15)
- III 'Regarding the question of appointing Native Agents Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. and News-Writers in South-Eastern Persia and the effect which such appointments would be likely to have on the present position in that country' (folios 16-18)
- IV 'Nushki Trade Returns for months April 1897 to March 1898', consisting of tables of statistics (folios 19-68).
Near the back of the report are genealogical tables of the Nushki Jamaldini, Zagar Mengal Amirzai, Mandai, Sinjeranis of Chagai, Narui Baluch, and Rekis of Mirjawa (folios 69-71).
Folio 73 is a map of the area covered by the report.
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- 1 volume (72 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 74; 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 Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts for the year 1897-98 and on the Development of The Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] Trade Route'
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- front, front-i, 2r:72v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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