'Memoir for the Indian Political Service - Scheme by Lieut. Colonel L.A.G. Pinhey O.B.E.' [‎16r] (31/44)

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Kalat State
The ruler of Kalat State was His Highness the Khan and he
had absolute powers in his State subject to the Paramountcy
of the Government of India through the A.G.G. in Baluchistan.
The administration under the Khan was in the nands of the
Wazir Minister. -i-Azam or Chief Minister with a number of Departmental
ministers under him to deal with Revenues, Religious affairs,
Law and Order, and Finance.
Up till the early 1930’s the Wazir Minister. -i-Azam for many years was
Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Sir Shams Shah, a Pathan directly appointed by the then
Khan of Kalat and he conducted almost all the business between
the Khan and the A.G.G. Baluchistan through a 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.
stationed at Mastung, about 30 miles >Vest of Quetta. In
Shams Shah’s day the then Khan was seldom seen and he kept
very much in seclusion in Kalat.
In about 1934/35 after the death of Sir Shams Shah and also
of the Khan of Kalat, the new Khan was persuaded to take on
an officer of the Political Service, E.B.Wakefield, to re
organise the administration which had got into a confused
condition. Mr. Wakefield was in the post of Wazir Minister. -i-Azam at
the time of the Quetta Earthquake on May 31st 1935* He was
living in the Kalat house in Quetta at the time and he himself
had the great misfortune to lose a small daughter in the
earthquake. Mir. Wakefield himself was injured and he and his
family left soon afterwards. He was much commended for his
work during the earthquake and its aftermath.
Mr. Wakefield was succeeded by Khan Bahadur Mohd. Zaman Khan,
an ex-Extra Assistant Commissioner of the North West Frontier,
from Peshawar District. His was a temporary appointment while
the Government of India and A.G.G. negotiated with the then
Khan, Ahmed Yar Khan, a young man of little experience who
had once served for a few years in the Zhob Militia. He had
not been on good terms with the late Khan, his father, or with
the Wazir Minister. -i-Azam, Sir Shams Shah.
Mohd. Zaman served on until the outbreak of war in 1939 ana-
in January 1940 the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. , (L.A.G.P.), was accepted as the
Wazir Minister. -i-Azam on loan from the Political Service.