ملف ١٩١٦/١٣٢٣ الجزء ١ "بلوشستان: الأوضاع المضطربة على الحدود الأنجلو فارسية. الإدارة المستقبلية لولايات مكران وسرهد وقلات" [و‎‎٣‎٢‎٧] (٨٩٦/٦٥١)

From
To
No.486/117(v)-F, P
The Secretary to the Governmert
in "Ujo Foreign and Po 1 iijcaX - }
(■7 'Zj&i
The HonM^le the Agent to the Cxovernor General
aiid Chief Comnisniorier in Baluchistan,
Bated Simla, the 8 th June 1923,
Kalat Administration,
I am directed to invite reference to your memoran
dum No*344, dated 30th January 1923* on the Kalat adminis
tration o
-fr 1 hi 6 interesting letter and memoranda which you
enclose Colonel Keyes treats with an admirable restraint
! | that has not always marked reports on Kalat, Inherently
controversial matter in a singularly uncontroversial manner.
Into the details of his historical and analytical reviews
it is unnecessary to follow him. For in dealing broadly
with the practical aspects of Kalat affairs the essentials
after an are two only: a right understanding of the impli
cations first of the constitution of the Kalat State as a
confederacy of Khan and Sardars, and secondly of our
constitutional positjon under the Mi stung Convention of
1876 as arbitrators and peace-makers between the two
elements in the confederacy,
3, So great are the anomalies In the Kalat State that
it is almost inevitable that the Institutions we ourselves
have from time to time superimposed on the Kalat consti
tution have not almys had the result which we anticipated \
and have sometimes even run counter to the objects we had
in view. But though we cannot hope to secure finality in
the institutions we introduce this ratters little* so
long as we watch our machinery at work and overhaul it
from time to time --as Colonel Keyes has now done --to s
see whether it is running smoothly and in harmony with the
essentials of the tetlat constitution &i^t<ra4^l, basic .of