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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’ [‎296r] (589/896)

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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Kie Secretarjr to theyimafea^slofj.india
in the i’o reign and Political Department,
ma Majeaty's Under Secretary of State for India,
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. ,
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Mgust 1923.
Sir,
I axii directed to invite reference to the
correspondence forwarded under coyer of ny letter Eo. 10S-M.,
OAiteo 22nd December 1921, regarding an attack on Tump in
British Eekran in October 1921 by Brahim 3& a n of Irafslian
anc. a large following, in which a Giehki Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. a nd his two
daughters were killed a nd a large amount of booty was carried
off,
^ :i3 ^sence of any further report from the
4gsnt to the Governor General in Baluchistan it was assumed
tha b tnis raid - like so many others on the Perso-Baluch
frontier -were Baluch Chiefs on both sides of it are
intermixed by intercourse and marriage - had on investigation
proved io be an interlude in a family feud which had yielded
to a local solution on customary tribal lines. Hence the '
r statement in the Government of India's Secret Despatch lo.
It 1 , dated the 19th October 1922, that our control of the
Sarhad had secured for the Eekran border five years of
unprecedented security. That statement it is true i s
literally accurate, for between 1916 and 1921 there was not a
^5^Ss.raiu oj. any moment from Persian territoiy into British
'17 But the Government of India would have qualified
statement had they been warned by the local
administration
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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’ [‎296r] (589/896), 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_100080241541.0x000001> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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