IOR/L/PS/12/2985

Correspondence, notes, and memoranda relating to relations between Kalat State and Gwadur [Gwadar], the latter being part of the Sultan of Muscat's territory.

• the Kalat State's request for postal and telegraphic offices to be established at Jiuni [Jīwanī] and for British India Steam Navigation Company steamers to make fortnightly calls there
• the Burmah Oil Company Limited's application for an oil prospecting licence in the Gwadur area
• the demarcation of the boundary between the two territories, necessitated largely by oil exploration
• the Sultan's complaints about a blockade of Gwadur by the Kalat State and encroachments over the border by Kalat State officials and American geologists
• arrangements for a meeting between the Sultan of Muscat and the Khan of Kalat (which never took place)
• the Royal Air Force's use of facilities in Gwadur and Jiwani
• the question of the strategic importance of Gwadur to the British and whether to induce the Sultan to sell the enclave back to the Kalat State
• the status of Kalat following India's independence and the creation of the Dominion of Pakistan, including a memorandum by the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, dated 12 September 1947, that deals with the legislative and political relations between certain 'Princely States' and the Dominion of India (folios 42-51).

The principal correspondents include the Government of India (External Affairs Department), Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Political Agent at Kalat and Chagai, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, Political Agent at Muscat, Admiralty, Air Ministry, British Agent at Gwadur, Commonwealth Relations Office, and the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Pakistan.