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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’ [‎328r] (653/896)

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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present position of the Wazir Minister. -i-^am is in accordance with the
wishes of His Highness the Khan and is approved by the Sardars,
and if, further, while consolidating the Khan's finances and
administration in the Niabats and upholding his authority as the
head of the confederacy, it in fact tends also, so far from
undermining, to uphold the position of the Sardars as members of
the confederacy, there is clearly no reason for a change. Never
theless the fact of the emergency of a factor inevitably associa-
tea with one particular element in the confederacy and immeasur
ably more powerful than the hereditary Mustaufi of the old days
whom Colonel Keyes regards as its prototype, must be carefully
watched. Por it can hardly be expected that the Kalat State will
always conmnd the services as Hasir-i-izam of an officer so
sagacious and so experienced as Sir Mir Shams shah or one as
anxious as ourselves to hold the balance even between the Khan
and his Sardars. Yet a shifting of the balance may be none the
less fraught with grave consequences because it is so gradual
that it arouses the misgivings of neither Khan nor Sardars. The
history of our connection with Kalat is a history not merely of
institutions but of personalities, and the Government of India
are assured that you, no less than Colonel Keyes, will closely
watch the evolution of our institutions and will not hesitate
to recommend a change if a change seems called for - whether
on account of some inherent defect that may come to light in the
institutions themselves, or of the personalities that have to
work them ~ in order to restore the balance of power between
the two elements that together make up the Kalat constitution,
the maintenance of which is at once the historical basis of

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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’ [‎328r] (653/896), 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_100080241541.0x000041> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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