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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’ [‎223v] (444/896)

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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Bam and Narmashir with a strong garrison to prevent raids and then
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our assistance.
15 At the same time the Shaukat from Seistan is moving and has pro
posed to garrison Khwash.
16 The Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor General in Baluchistan has
said that he cannot control this territory and the tribes we now subsidise if
Persian troops and officials are in occupation of the country. The truth of
this is self-evident. Our object is to avoid the present anomalous position
of our occupying a portion of Persian territory.
17 Thus the .question resolves itself into a simple matter; if the
Persians can take such steps as will guarantee the safety of the Railway we
should leave the 'Sarhad to them and evacuate—if they cannot we must con
tinue as we are till they can so do.
18. The matter then turns on the preparations the Persians can make.
19. But the Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor General has stated that
if the Persians wish to make a gesture from this side to show Dost Muham
mad that it would be wisest for him to come in, the objections taken to their
intrusion on the Sarhad would not maintain provided this gesture does not
affect the Sarhad, i.e., provided they do not advance beyond the Duzdap-
Shorgaz line which is the line of the proposed new short route to Kerman.
20. While we cannot tell the Persians they cannot advance in their own
country we can tell them that if they desire to advance beyond a certain route
we will withdraw but that in that case they must guarantee us the safety
of the railway.
! 21. It will be seen that I consider the Sarhad and Persian Baluchistan
to be two different questions, in their essential points. Though Dost
Muhammad and the tribes are in close touch and assist each other in their
{ raiding parties though their conditions act and react upon each other their
fundamental conditions of Government are separate. The Sarhad might be
ruled from Bampur. Bampur could not be ruled from the Sarhad.
22. Any further report must wait till we see what preparations the
Persians are able to make and this will depend very largely upon the political
. situation at Tehran.
23. The question as to whether the Consul for Southern Baluchistan
should be appointed immediately to take the place of 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. ,
Chagai, if the Persians assume control of the Sarhad, is one which concerns
the Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor General most but I would state my
opinion that if all subsidies are withdrawn suddenly it will not assist the
Persians in maintaining the control we desire while the payment of these
subsidies as a life measure would probably be cheaper than the present
system; payments could easily be made through a Consular Officer.
24. I am sending a copy of this letter to the Hon’ble the Agent to the
Governor General in Baluchistan and forward 3 copies of this letter with the
request that a copy may be forwarded to His Hritannic Majesty’s Minister
in lehran. The post from Kerman to Tehran take 26 days.
f
133
No. 2.-Q., dated Quetta, the 21st November 1923.
hrom—B. J. Gould, Esq., C.I.E., I.C.S., His Britannic Majesty’s Consul for
beistan and Kain,
To Hie Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and
1 ohtical Department, Delhi.
nsiaoLisnment of Persian Control in Persian Baluchistan,
representation in that district.
q J" ac 4 ,^ a / ? c f ) V]th / ^ lle . directions conveved in vour telegrams No. 1266-
■ ot tlie 20th 0ct ober (Serial No. 96), and No. 1283-S. of the 23rd October

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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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