"الملف 22/16‎ I‏ (A 41) مدينة جوادر، النفط، التنازل المقترح والملكية" [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٢] (٣٢٢/٢٣٥)

i^gcnt Kalat's letter;. '
'hi o.
Another ejjpedition against Gwadur waa by Ahuda Dad Ilhan "but
hatd to be abandoned*
ATTEJSiTS TO KECC^nilR The claims of the iQian of &alat to Uiradur
GWADTJR THROUGH THE
BRITISH GOVERHUEHT. appear to hare been represented to Gorernment
for the first time by Major Henry Grecn # C»-B ## Politi«al Agent,Ralat #
in his unnumbered despatch dated liarch 27th 1861^ a copy of which
is in the Agency records.
It was then contended by the Ruler of Kalat that the town and port
of Gwadur had been lent to aaiyid Sultan, the Imam of Muscat about
the middle of the eighteenth century to enable him to quell an
insurrection in some of his territories on the coast to tjp® west-
-ward,after which it was to be restored to its owner; but that
the then Khan dying and the country falling into a state of anarchy
the successors of Saiyid Sultan had taken adrantage of those cir-
-cumstances to retain possession of Gwadur.
In his official report iso.9 dated 3rd of June 1861 # the Rrrd .G.P.
Badger states that the Tgyanrt most probable account of the manner
in ^hich Gwadur fell into the hands of tJaiyid Sultan was gifen him
by an old iseloochee Chief at Muscat whose relatiyes had been in
the serrice of the Imam for seyeral generations and whose narratiTe
of facts correspond^generally with the natife chronicles of those ±
times.
He stated that Saiyid Sultan,the fifth but the braTest son of
Ahmed,the first of the reigning Muscat dynasty,haying rebelled
against his father, repaired to the Khan of iLhelat and sought his
aid in dethroning him. The Khan,wishing to hare a friendly power
possessed of a naTal force to protect his coast,and foreseeing
that Sultan would erentually succeed to the muscat soTereignty,sc
far Tolunteered him assistance as to gire him in perpetuity the
town and port of Gwadur,the only attached condition being that
he should alway* defend the place against the enemies of Khelat.
Considering the unimportance of Gwadur at the time and the HhanU
inability from want of ships to guard it from attack,the ReTd.
-Badger thought / there was no improbability in this story / seTeral
of the faots on which it was founded being supported by contem-
-porary Arabian historians.