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'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur' [38r] (80/380)
The record is made up of 1 volume (188 folios). It was created in 11 May 1929-13 Jun 1932. 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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33.
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Stv ftuAoX S 47«aaa ^ ph.'P.
Sa-l-t928 . p-se., ^ of th© Indian
iKcUc^U^caa ynrt>et pepartsent visited Gwadur
^ and laft for •. akran,
4-4-19?^, (Colonol } 6.-3.0. deSirdlt, T.S.O.,
the re-- "D.P.G. w ith the old D.P.G.
1 r. .i'l. ••:. cunter, O.L. j ,.» visitsd
Gwidur or thoir annual tour to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
i-.uscat Btnte Qfficors .
P n -r«19r^. 'r. Bertram Thorns, Fin^ncinl
minister to Hie Highness the Sultan
of Inscnt Oimn, visited Gwidnr#
He w^s accomodated in the Political
Banf alow.
6-5-19PB. 1 cdo? ot'ists of the /mtlo-Persian
Oil Comp-uly permitted "by the
Council of i ininters, Muscat itnte,
visited Gwndur.
CJeu?
On the 1st Ajoril 19?°, His Highness the Sultan
of Muscat"on hcnrd. the stftiBier eoislne muscat to a^a^rir.
iiis iii^hness lid not land, but ^ant straight to lndia»
There are many ancient ruins in the vicinity of
G^'adur. In the pl^in nitutted above the neighTsouring hills
are found ruins of the so -called 5 "Portut uese T^nk". At the
foot of the same hills there is an ancient graveyard of
unkno-.^n ancient poopie. The structure of the e raves is of
peculiar type. Close "by , there is an ancient dome pro'ba'bly a
tomh or prayer house of the ancleDt people. The pillars of
this lorn© are carved out of one and the sane long stone.
Some are of opinion that the above dome Tfas made "by the
^orti^ uese, -rhile the others hold that this represents the
to; "b of ancient » akran rirlars. In one of the stone inscrip
tions it is clearly written in Persian ?cript " This is the
s ^ave of tymoir **ho died in 1140 llijri, in the rei^ n of
Shall Bilal.".
ii<iny of the stone inscriptions and stones seem
to hava been removed "by the Gwadur poo le during, the last
century, -his is su sorted by the fact that the adjacent
■■s
cemetery of ..uhamicadona is full oi such atones of peculiar
type, while one hig stone inscription of PBrsian script
s ,y , to xiave oeen alaced in the "bit.t est town mosques of
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The file covers political, economic and general matters at Gwadar (which is referred to throughout as ‘Gwadur’). The file includes Annual Report of the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Gwadar for the year 1928, written by the British Agent, M Waris Ali, which includes sections on ancient history; area and population; main villages of the Gwadar territory; languages, religion and instruction; constitution, government and justice; British and state representatives; cases settled during the year under report; defence; passports and certificates of identity; frontier news in brief; shipping, communications and trade; foreign and inland commerce and the way in which both have contributed to bring about a destructive effect on Gwadar trade; fish trade; state customs, finance and baladiah; sanitation and doctor; climate, soil, rainfall and agriculture; production, industries and manufactures; mineralogy; slaves and their manumission; government buildings and their upkeep; government post office and telegraph office; meteorological and aeroplanes; banking and currency; weights and measures; the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; distinguished visitors to Gwadar during the year under report; archaeology; locusts; earthquakes; tides and tempests; and obituary for the late British agent, Raja King Lal Khan, who had committed suicide after going insane one night as a result of ‘super abundance [sic] of passport drudgery and other work mixed with anxieties and cares’.
The file also includes papers relating to communal disturbances at Gwadar between Khojas/Aga Khanis (who were British subjects) and Baluchis (subjects of the Sultan of Muscat). The troubles, which followed allegations of the defilement of a mosque with dung by Khojas, resulted in deaths of two members of the Khoja community, 1929-1932
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- 1 volume (188 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are 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 page. There is also an old foliation system (not circled), numbered 1 (folio 6); then 98 (folio 103) - end of volume.
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- IOR/R/15/1/379
- Title
- 'File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 99ar:99bv, 100r:111v, 114r:185v, 186ar:186av, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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