IOR/L/PS/7/1 ff.410-528

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Scope and content : Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department (Political) to the Secretary of State for India, dated 22 January, relating to 'the general disorder into which the affairs of Khelat had fallen' and to the possibility of resorting to 'the grave measure of armed interference in the affairs of that State.' It concludes that it was not 'expedient to intervene by force of arms in order to settle the affairs of the Khelat State' and that the 'distracted state of Khelat appeared to us to be due more to the inability of the Khan to control his subjects than to any hostile feelings on his part towards the British Government.'The despatch includes a number of background briefing documents relating to the history of relations between the Indian Government and Kalat, a printed confidential paper on the 'Topography, Direction of Routes, Inhabitants and Climate,' and a printed paper, 'Remarks as Objecting to the Intended March of Troops from Sonmeanee to Kelat,' written by Major James Holland and dated January 1842.