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'File 22/16 I (A 41) GWADUR, Oil, Proposed Cession and Ownership' [94v] (197/322)
The record is made up of 1 volume (159 folios). It was created in 22 May 1913-8 Aug 1928. 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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CONFIDENTIAL
British Consulate and Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
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Muscat 37th April 1920»
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R.E .L .Wln ^ate Esq, I.C.S.
Political Arent and H»E»M ! s Consul, Muscat
The Deputy
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
, Bushlre.
Sir
I have the honour to Invite your attention to the question
of the status of Gwadar and of the present situation there as
reported to me.
Gwadar Is a small town with what Is for the
Meier an coast a good harbour. In the territories of the Khan of
Kalat, but owned by and forming part of the territories of f , the
Sultan of Muscat. The boundaries between Kalat state Imcx * ar.d
R«x«rx]as«Kx«x*Klt3ytxjtMiWK*isix the possessions of the Sultan of
Muscat have never been exactly demarcated^but they aeem to be
fairly weil known and never to have formed the basis of serious
dispute. A very fair volume of trade for the Interior passes
through Gwadar, and there Is large colony of British Indian
h-
subjects both Khoja and Hindu resident there. T he Sultan's
government and effective authority Is represented by a Wall
and seventeen "asker". The actual authority Is In the ^ =
of one Mohamed Remoo. an Aghakhanl Khoja and formerly the
Sultan's director of customs In Muscat, to whom the customs
have been farmed by the Sultan. This man Is a resident of
Gwadar, the agent of the B.I.Company for the Hekran coast
ports and the chief merchant In the place. He Is also the
"wazlr" of the Agha Khan for the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. He Is a British
subject.
Under the terms of the loan the control of the customs
In Gwadar and Dhofar Is especially exempted and the director
of customs for Muscat and Oman has no authority there.
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The file relates to proposals to prospect for oil at Gwadar (mainly referred to in the papers as 'Gwadur'), and discussions over the ownership and proposed cession of the area, which was in the territory of the Sultan of Muscat.
The file includes the following papers:
- correspondence concerning demarcation of the boundary between Gwadar and Kalat, 1913-1915
- papers relating to the Sultan of Muscat's sovereignty over Gwadar and the claims of the Khan of Kalat to Gwadar, 1913-1928, including correspondence between Lieutenant Colonel R A E Benn, 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. in Muscat, Major Stuart George Knox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire, and D de S Bray, Quetta, dated April-June 1914, discussing the possible cession of Gwadar by the Sultan of Muscat and noting possible objections on the part of the French; trade statistics for Gwadar and Muscat for a period of three years, June 1914; letter from R E L Wingate, 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. , Muscat, to Lieutenant Colonel A P Trevor, Deputy Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Bushire setting out reasons for a possible cession of Gwadar by the Sultan of Muscat, 27 April 1920; papers discussing the history and relative strength of the claims to Gwadar by the Sultan of Muscat on the one hand, and the Khan of Kalat and the Gitchkis on the other, 1926-1928
- proposals by the Burmah Oil Company Limited to prospect for oil in Gwadar, 1914, including a map of territories (scale one inch = four miles) over which a prospecting licence was required by the company (folio 33), with description (folio 34)
- statistics of trade for the years 1910-1913 relating to Chahbar, 1914
- rules for the grant of mineral leases, 1914
- details of trade statistics relating to Gwadar, 1914
- report on oil on the Makran coast by Lieutenant Colonel Keyes, 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. , Kalat, 28 January 1928.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (159 folios)
- Arrangement
Contains an index of six topics at the front of the volume.
Arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation system in use is the sequence of numbers appearing in a circle in the top right-hand corner of each folio. An original foliation sequence (not circled) links the folio numbers in the index at the front of the volume.
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- IOR/R/15/1/378
- Title
- 'File 22/16 I (A 41) GWADUR, Oil, Proposed Cession and Ownership'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1br:1bv, 2r:30v, 35r:64v, 66r:76v, 78r:79v, 80ar:80bv, 81r:83v, 86r:96v, 97ar:97bv, 98r:155v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence