'Report on the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts' [‎6v] (12/72)

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d *Tk tt0 i- he KhaT1 * To ^ lve tliis appointment to a Kalat official
of the ordinary type would, I feel assured, inevitably entail failure,
rudely shake new-born confidence, and be inadvisable to the last
degree. If, however, either of the schemes be adopted, funds
will be required to provide accommodation for district officials,
the necessary administrative buildings, and above all for the
construction on the Dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. of few simple irrigation works. These,
owing to the conformation of the country, need not be of an
expensive nature, and they would operate'to catch the overflow
water of the Vmhin Lora, which now flows aimlessly on the Lora
JUmdn, there to perish instead of discharging its proper functions
m watering the rich and fertile alluvial lands known as the Dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
A o better scheme could be derived for winning the people over to
pacific pursuits than to supply them with a sufficiency ot irrigated
land lor agricultural purposes. 3
, , l 2 - t0 l 1 '" PJ^ent, I have refrained from touching on a most impor
tant question. I refer to the protection of the latelv demarcated frontier
especially that portion bordering on Shorawak. Oa niy arrival at Nusukt’
mostTfl 61 e i '- S , aSeri earl - v attention. In a darbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). to which I summoned the’
most influential men m tue district, I warned all that attempts to infringe the
dbuEt to ° * h6 v' ontler b y perseverance in such practices as thev wefe ad
dicted to, using husHKi as a base, would meet with speedy punishment Mv
words have had a far deeper effect than I anticipated. Not a sing” “L Ins
come to my knowledge where the frontier has been violated from outside
nf'faet'f 1 C0U ^ sa - r that . the state of thin gs had been reciprocated, but as a matter
Kalat territory ^ro F^ d ° CCU T d u WMch raids have been oom»itted in
Tte. n te ? ltor f , h y offenders who have crossed the Shorawak borders
The boundary between pillars cxlvi and clvii is, as far as Afghanistan is
“khan icHAtr; a ro i the D , e rr ?.r nwr of
OADIK KHAN ACHAMAT, a despicably ieeble creature, addicted to the use of
to b t a n 9 ’ ri nd C 0 7 , U(J , t . to the last de ? ree . tills State of affairs is mamlv
to be attributed. He wields little or no authority, and to repeat a rumour tw
has the Stamp of universal credence, is disinclined to e^ter ou a crusTagain
raiding from personally interested motives. To look to him for assistance in
repressing such traus-frontier crime as originates in Shorawak is, I fear, quite
13. To meet the difficulty, the method that best commends itself tom,.
CHA^PANKwtv^ the D 1 K y ENGiL preference, I wodd sel!"t
CHANDA>r Khan, a man highly respecred by the whole tribe—in charge of tlmf
portion of the frontier just aUuded to, allot him a small Levy servicf sav of
Ks. 200 monthly, and hold him responsible for the renression nf *tli L • i i
S'S'k®! ST 1 , h " r
whose rather
greatly tend to consolidate Muhammad Ali Khan’s Sirdarshin a T1 u W ?u lcl
old system of mutual reprisals will continue. ' U t the
our flture^olte/t'NusHKt wha^ft Lav^iT is °T P oint - tt at, be
f wee in Nusho to deter raiding, arrest^ffLders^and ^ve foree to^dicTl
decisions. ^ at ^ ern Pf the administration of the countrv in flip nh K- l
such force, experience has proved must lead to failure.' absence ot some
TRADE.
a reputation as a trade mart ofTo’ns'ideraWnmpoMar 1 '^ 6 l^” 68 ’ h ] S “"■i 0 - 76 ' 1
commerce which has increased and diminialioi * P rta, |? e » claim to a
districts from which t“dTL towa eiZ fni3Tbl°f n “ the Sttrr0undi ^
with inter-tribal feuds. Mv enouiri^ , )ue ^ l re P ose or were torn
n '-“ - -*• •< ■*”' e txtzx ‘ srs