"مذكرة أعدّها القس ج. ب. بادجر بشأن مطالبات بلاد فارس في بلوشستان ومكران، والتي تضمنت إشارة خاصة إلى مطالبها بجوادر وتشابهار" [ظ‎‎٨] (٢٠/١٦)

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Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, on discussing the Herat question :—The
of principal “ object we have in view in those discus-
“ sions is the security of our frontier in Khorasan,
“ Kirman, Beloochistan and Seistan.” With the Minister in such humour, no time
would seem better adapted to treat with him on the Mekran boundary, and we
might honestly respond to the above general invitation by confining our attention *
to the points on which we ourselves are especially interested. I hope to he
acquitted of presumption in making even allusion to a point of Foreign Office
diplomacy, but the terra incognita of Beloochistan, however unimportant in a
map of the world, becomes full of life and meaning when viewed from Western
India.
14. The conduct of the Governor of Bunpoor, recently brought under the
consideration of Government, supports these con-
Correspondence endingwith Bom- elusions. The words of a hasty and impolitic meddler
July last, Secret Department. ma 7 not be without their use, though in a way dif
ferent from that intended. His interpretation of
the status of Khelat should be that of his Government, for he must in this respect,
if in no other, have had his instructions. He may he said indeed to admit that
the Khan is the Sovereign of an independent State extending westward to Gwadur,
and such view is opposed to the notion that Persia
. Mimster for Foreign ] a y g c i a j m t; 0 the whole coast line from Bunder
November 1861. Abbass to the frontiers ot Sind, t.e., Kurrachee.
On the 6th April last this person sent a messenger
to the Khan of Khelat with a letter complaining of Azad Khan, Chief of Khuran.
His letter, whatever its hidden purport, is most respectfully worded, and treats the
Khan as a wholly independent Prince allied to the British Government. And on
the 19th of the month following, the same authority writes to the British Agent at
Muscat:—- c< As the Government of Gwadur is not under my charge, I have nothing
to say to your having gone there.” Even if we go no further, it is important to
us to secure a line of boundary placing Gwadur to the eastward of Persian claims,
a position which, however now casually admitted, would be doubly sure if officially
acknowledged.
15. On the subject of the claims of the Imaum of Muscat, the only two
possessions that seem to require notice are Gwadur and Choubar, or Charbar.
Those further to the west commence from the point where the Mekran boundary
(or at all events the Belooch Mekran boundary) terminates. It is presumed that
the tract between this boundary and Persia proper must be considered to be
Persian Beloochistan, if not Eastern Kirman.
16. Of the history of Gwadur, little is known prior to its first possession by Sultan
Gwadur Syed [Seyyed Sultan] of Muscat about the middle of
the last century. From Albuquerque’s Commen
taries we learn that one of the conditions which the Ambassador of the Shah of Persia
exacted from the Portuguese in the Treaty made at Ormuz in about 1515, was
that they should give their aid in retaking Gwadur from a rebellious King of
Mekran. The position of Gwadur is described to be between Cape Jask and Sind,
and it is called subject to the King of Ormuz. Albuquerque gave the required
aid. The name is also contained in several maps, and casually inserted in several
gazetteers, both old and recent, but I have been unable to obtain anything like a
detailed memoir.
17. Major Green was of opinion that it was a mere temporary possession of
the Imaum, lent for a special occasion which no longer existed, and that it rightly
belonged to Khelat. This is the view also stated by the son of the Darogha Gul
Mahomed in his Memoir of Khelat, translated by Captain Dickinson. The
Reverend Mr. Badger thought it was a gift in perpetuum from a former Sultan to
a former Khan. The only evidence that I have been enabled to discover, in
addition to that obtainable in the records of Government, is that of Haji Abdul
Nubbi, published in the Asiatic Society’s Journal under the heading of Tour
through parts of Beloochistan in 1838 and 1839. He says : “ The Brahiu’s half
“ of Gwadur was given in grant by Meer Nussir Khan to the present Imaum’s
“ father,^ Syed Sultan, who took refuge at Khelat during some convulsion of the
“ State.” Upon the whole, even setting aside prescriptive right and present posses
sion, I think the Imaum’s claim a fair one. Viewed as a possession of a 100 years
it seems quite indisputable.