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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’ [‎105v] (208/896)

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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Telegram P., No. 505-S., dated the 6th March 192*.
p rom The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and
Political Department, Delhi,
To—His Majesty’’s Minister, Tehran.
We have repeated to* Secretary of State for India Keyes’ telegram to
A^ent to the Governor-Genera... Baluchistan, dated March lst,f No. 5-B. |
comment as follows. Begins, Situation has probably
* * * * , consider his views.
JEnds.
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Telegram R., No. 4, dated the 4th (received the 5th) March 1924.
From—His Majestay’s Consul, Kerman,
To—The Foreign 1 Secretary to the Government of India nfthe Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi.
(Addressed Tehran No. 13, repeated to Bushire No. 8 and Birjand No. 38.)
. My itelegram dated January 8 th. Diwan Begi is now on his way back to
Kerman from Baluchistan and has telegraphed to Governor-General that Dost
Muhammad has apparently no intention of being recalcitrant and has onerea
in future to pay revenue at tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 19 thousand per annum as hxed by late
Birman Firma ot er 30 years ago.
Prime Minister has also been elected as member for Medjliss from Balu
chistan with Diwan Begi as second. This actually means election of Diwan
Begi.
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No. 17-M., dated Delhi, the 6th March 1924. (Confidential).
Endorsed by the Foreign and Political Department.
A copy of the undermentioned paper is forwarded to the Hon’ble the
Agent to the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Balucnistan for
information in continuation of the endorsement^ from the Foreign and Political
Department of the Government of India No. 70 (IV) M., dated 27th February
1922.
Sarhad Series, Bari II,
Telegram from His Majesty^s Consul, Kerman, No. 4, dated 4th March 1824.
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Telegram R., No. 503-S., dated the 6th March 1924.
From—His Excellency the Viceroy (Foreign and Political Department), Delhi,
To—His Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, London.
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Kerman telegram|| No. 4, March 4th. Begin*. My telegram
* * * election of D. Ends.
.•.Serial.No. 16.
t Enclosure to Serial No. 12.
|Serial No. 229 in File 70 (IV) M.
§Serial No. 6-A.
|| Serial No. 18.

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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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File 1323/1916 Pt 1 ‘Baluchistan:- Disturbed conditions on the Anglo-Persian border. Future administration of Mekran, Sarhad & the Kalat States’ [‎105v] (208/896), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/594/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100080241537.0x000014> [accessed 19 April 2024]

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