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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’ [‎133r] (263/896)

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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{Received on 27th January 1924, with Tolitical Secretary's weekly letter
No. 2, dated the 10th January 1924.)
E.-34—1-34.
Foreign Office,
S. W. 1.
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8th January 1924.
Sir,
With reference to your letter No. F.-5008* of the 1st instant, I am direct-
ed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to he laid
ore Viscount Peel, the accompanying copy of a telegram, which has been
addressed to His Majesty’s Minister at Tehran, authorising him to make repre
sentations to the Persian Government in the sense of the Government of
India’s telegram No. 1848-S,f of December 28th, relative to the activity of
Qadir Baksh of Kohak and the proposed meeting between Shauqat-ul-Mulk
and Colonel Keyes.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
D. G. OSBORNE.
The Under Secretary of State,
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. .
Enclosure to Serial No. 263.
E.-34—1—34.
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There,
Sarhad.
You may act in the sense proposed by the Government of India in their
telegram No. 1848*S.f of December 28th.
264
No. 70-(lV)-M., dated Delhi, the 30th January 1924. [Confidential.)
Endorsed ly the Foreign and Political Department.
Hon’b le the Ag ent t o
The undermentioned papers are forwarded to the ** 1 . 9 Ma3 ^ ty ’ s Coqslx L for
His Majesty’s Consul
General Staff
the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan
Sistau and Kain
for information, in continuation
Kirman
Branch
of the endorsement from the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, No. 70-(IV)-M.,t dated 17th January 1924,
hich
Sarhad Series.
Serial Nos. 236—256. * S
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* Serial No. 247.
f Serial No, 192.
S Serial No. 241.

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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’ [‎133r] (263/896), 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_100080241537.0x00004b> [accessed 27 April 2024]

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