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The Baluchistan Agency (also spelt Balochistan Agency) was one of agencies of
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In addition to the princely states, the north of the agency was administered as the Chief Commissioner's Province. This consisted of the following districts:
* Chagai
* Quetta-Pishin (including Quetta)
* Jhatpat
* Loralai
* Sibi (including Bugti and Marri tribal areas)
* Zhob
British Raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;
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during the colonial era. It was located in the present-day Pakistani Balochistan province
Balochistan (; bal, بلۏچستان; ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southwestern region of the country, Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan by land area but is the least populated one. It shares land ...
.Administration report of the Balochistan Agency for 1888–89:
selections from the records of the Government of India, Foreign Department. 104pgs.
Geography
The territories of the agency covered an area of 208,262 km2 (44,345 square miles) and included areas which had been acquired by lease or otherwise brought under direct British control, as well as the princely states.History
This political agency was established in 1877, following the 1876 treaty signed in Mastung by Baloch leaders by means of which they accepted the mediation of the British authorities in their disputes.Colonel
Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations.
In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge ...
Sir Robert Groves Sandeman introduced an innovative system of tribal pacification in Balochistan that was in effect from 1877 to 1947. However the Government of India generally opposed his Methods and refused to allow it to operate in India's North West Frontier. Historians have long debated its scope and effectiveness in the peaceful spread of Imperial influence. Christian Tripodi, "'Good for one but not the other': The 'Sandeman System' of Pacification as Applied to Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier, 1877-1947." ''Journal of Military History'' 73#3 (2009): 767-802online
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Demographics
Princely states
The Baluchistan Agency consisted of three princely states: * Kalat khanate, the premier state and onlysalute state
A salute state was a princely state under the British Raj that had been granted a gun salute by the British Crown (as paramount ruler); i.e., the protocolary privilege for its ruler to be greeted—originally by Royal Navy ships, later also ...
(Hereditary salute of 19-guns; titles Wali, Khan; from 1739 Wali, Begler Begi, Khan), including its Jhalawan
Jhalawan ( Brahui: جھالاوان) was an administrative division of the Khanate of Kalat, a princely state of Brahui that acceded to Pakistan in 1947. It was established in the 17th century and its boundary was fixed with Sindh in 1853. ...
, Kacchi and Sarawan
Sarawan ( Balochi: سراوان) was a division of the former princely state of Kalat in Baluchistan, Pakistan, with an area . To the north were Quetta, Pishin, Bolan Pass and Sibi District. On the south was the division of Jhalawan. The ...
administrative divisions
** while Makran
Makran ( fa, مكران), mentioned in some sources as Mecran and Mokrān, is the coastal region of Baluchistan. It is a semi-desert coastal strip in Balochistan, in Pakistan and Iran, along the coast of the Gulf of Oman. It extends westwards, f ...
(title Nazem, later Nawwab) is quoted as either another division, a vassal state or autonomous
* and Kalat's two feudatory states :
** Las Bela (title Jam Saheb)
** Kharan (title Mir; from 1921, Sardar Bahador Nawwab).
The Government of India maintained its relations with the states through its political agent in Kalat. The first agent in Balochistan was Robert Groves Sandeman (1835-1892), Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India, who was appointed by Lord Lytton, the Viceroy of India.
Administrative structure
In addition to the princely states, the north of the agency was administered as the Chief Commissioner's Province. This consisted of the following districts:
* Chagai
* Quetta-Pishin (including Quetta)
* Jhatpat
* Loralai
* Sibi (including Bugti and Marri tribal areas)
* Zhob
See also
*History of Balochistan
The history of Balochistan began in 650 BCE with vague allusions to the region in Greek historical records. Balochistan is divided between the Pakistani province of Balochistan, the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan and the Afgha ...
* List of Indian Princely States
Before the Partition of India in 1947, about 584 princely states, also called "native states", existed in India, which were not fully and formally part of British India, the parts of the Indian subcontinent which had not been conquered or an ...
* Treaty of Kalat The Treaty of Kalat (Urdu: قلات کے معاہدے) was an 1875 agreement between the British Raj and the Baloch tribes bordering the Punjab region in modern-day Pakistan.
Negotiated by British ''chargé d'affaires'' Robert Groves Sandeman, th ...
References
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