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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’ [130r] (257/896)
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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iie iniormed ii.jj.Syed Hassan that he has dropped the idea of
laoviEg- his cavalry and camelry direct to Khwash from Duzdap,
and that he intended moving his force to larjawa by road and not
to ask for any railway accommodation* He has net mentioned any of
these points to me as yet.
^ fare my arrival at Duzdap the Dover nor organised
an SKtertsimnent in honour of Halar .majad promotion to the
roriA oi full Colonel, oalar Hmjad arrived at this party over two
imuis late exf^ uij.ei'eby considerably annoyed the Dovernor. I am
informed that he and the Doverncr have been on bad terms for some
days. It is also said that Dalar Hmjad has fallen out with Shauqat-
Ul “iU 111 iL •
u. fne Governor and Karguzar called on me on 31st January,
o-* H*jj* even hassan informs me that one of the Persian officers
has met with a serious revolver accident, apparently self inflicted*
dalar iWjad is anxious to get the officer into hospital and 11*3*
Syeci Hassan has offered to take him into Quetta. ith a view to
.promoting good relations with oalar Hmjad I have written to hi
.m
to say if he would care to send this officer to Quetta I will ask
icr permission to allow him to receive treatment in the Civil
Hospital.
la. The political situation as regards o&rhad tribes and Barnpur
is as follows
Dost Muhammad is attempting to get a hold over the Damnis by
promise to meet oalar Hnjad near Khwash with a view to persuading
him to forgive them for the Jeruft raid and to cancel the demand
feu lest oration of the XO£ looted property* He has sent Bhahsowar
and Nur muhammad a verbal message that should the Persians press
ior the return of the loot they should move down towards Bampur.
The Damnis are said to have sent a verbal reply to Dost
Muhammad that they are prepared to fight the Persians.
Tne above information, which has already been reported by the
Indian assistant at Khwash in his diary for week ending 25th January
is confirmed by the report of an Intelligence Agent recently sent
from Duzdap to Sarhad.
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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’
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- 2r:207r, 208r:293v, 295r:337v, 339r:428v, 428ar:428av, 429r:448v
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