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File 1323/1916 Pt 1 ‘Baluchistan:- Disturbed conditions on the Anglo-Persian border. Future administration of Mekran, Sarhad & the Kalat States’ [81r] (159/896)
The record is made up of 1 item (446 folios). It was created in 28 Mar 1916-16 Jan 1925. 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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Lieut»Golonel TXeyes, O.k.Gr.,
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Kalat, and Liaison Officer,
The Secretary to the Hon*hie the Agent to the
Governor General in Baluchistan*
Bated Dal hand in, the 9 th March 1924.
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I have the honour to report on the formal
handing over of the Bar had to the Persian representative.
Colonel Salar Amjad-ul-Mulk, on March 1 st, 1924.
2 . The first definite information as to the intentions
of the Persian Government regarding the re-occupation of
Sarhad and Persian Mekran was given in telegram ho*399 of
2 nd Becemher 1923 (Aerial ho.149) from His Britannic
Majesty^ Minister in Tehran, and my instructions were
contained in L T o«7G(ivj M of 24th Bec.nnher 1923 from the
Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department
to the Hon^le the Agent to the Governor General (Aerial ho
181 ).
3. My first meeting with Aalar Amjad took place at
Bug.dap on January 12 th, after which I returned to Aibi;
and Major Dennys, Deputy Liaison Officer, rejoined the
Aalar at Du&dap on January 30th.
4. Meanwhile the outlook had changed to some extent#
First the Persian plan of carrying out the whole
operation from Aeistan under the Shaukat-ul-Mulk as
Governor of Baluchistan had been modified. The
Ahaukat* s appointment had been cancelled, and negotiations
with Mir Dost Muhammad were being carried on through the
Kerman authorities.
5 # The Persian estimate of Dost Muhammad 1 s
strength, was unduly high, and possibly my own reports
may have given, on the British side, an exaggerated
idea
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The part contains reports, correspondence, and printed copies of correspondence, relating to affairs on the frontiers between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [Pakistan], as well as between British Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The part includes: reports of unrest and desertion amongst the Zhob militia in 1916, and losses incurred as a result, as reported by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Zhob, Major Arthur le Grand Jacob; the granting of financial rewards to officers and men in the Zhob militia who did not desert during the Third Anglo-Afghanistan War in 1919; the continuance of funds towards a number of British border forces in 1921, including the Swat Levies and the Mekran Levy Corps; discussion of the future arrangements for the administration of those parts of Mekran [Makran] under the authority of the Khanate of Kalat, 1922; reports on the Kalat administration; the disposal of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Duzdap [Zahedan] railway; and the transfer of control over tribes in the Sarhad district of Persian Baluchistan, from the British to the Persian authorities, March 1924.
The part’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; the Agent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kalat, Terence Humphrey Keyes; the Foreign Office; and HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran.
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- 2r:207r, 208r:293v, 295r:337v, 339r:428v, 428ar:428av, 429r:448v
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