Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)
| Chief Commisoner's Province of British Baluchistan | |||||||||||
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| Province of British India & Pakistan | |||||||||||
| 1876–1955 | |||||||||||
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 Map of Baluchistan Province (red) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Quetta | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1901 | 139,396[1][2] km2 (53,821 sq mi) | ||||||||||
• 1903 | 140,010 km2 (54,060 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1876 | ||||||||||
• Quetta and surrounding districts placed under British administration | 1879 | ||||||||||
• Administration of Pishin and Sibi tract assumed from Afghanistan | 1879 | ||||||||||
• Bolan Pass tracts leased to British by Kalat | 1883 | ||||||||||
• Zhob and country of Khetran tribes brought under British rule from Afghanistan | 1890 | ||||||||||
• Chagai and West Sinjrani brought under British administration | 1896 | ||||||||||
• Leased Nushki from Kalat | 1899 | ||||||||||
• Leased Nasirabad from Kalat | 1903 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1955 | ||||||||||
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The Chief Commissioner's Province of British Baluchistan was a province of
History
The province was originally formed over the period 1876–1891 by three treaties between
Balochistan was legally ceded to Pakistan by its rulers in 1947 and continued to be administered by a Chief Commissioner. It was dissolved in 1955 when most parts of the western wing of Pakistan became the new province of
Demographics
The population of the province was equally split between
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Government
The province was administered by a Chief Commissioner appointed by the Federal Government. Although there was no elected legislature the Chief Commissioner could consult the Shahi Jirga, an assembly of tribal leaders.
The province comprised three groups of areas – the settled districts, the political agencies and the tribal area. The settled areas were mainly the district around Quetta and
| Tenure | Chief Commissioner of Balochistan[3] |
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| 15 August 1947 – 3 October 1947 | Sir Geoffrey Prior |
| 3 October 1947 – 8 April 1948 | Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas |
| 9 April 1948 – 18 January 1949 | Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge |
| 19 January 1949 – 16 July 1949 | Sahibzada Mohammad Kursheed |
| 16 July 1949 – 18 November 1952 | Mian Aminuddin |
| 18 November 1952 – 13 February 1953 | Unknown |
| 13 February 1953 – 8 November 1954 | Qurban Ali Khan |
| 8 November 1954 – 19 July 1955 | Sardar Bahadur Khan |
| 19 July 1955 – 25 July 1955 | R.A.F. Hyride |
| 26 July 1955 – 14 October 1955 | R.A.M. Shaker |
| 14 October 1955 | Province abolished |
see
See also
- Balochistan province
- Balochistan States Union
- Quetta Residency
- Makran
- Las Bela
- Kharan
- Khanate of Kalat
- Politics of Pakistan
- History of Pakistan
- Robert Groves Sandeman
Notes
- ^ Province area. Total area including dependent states – 341 503 км2 (131 855 sq mi).
- ^ The Imperial Gazetteer of India (26 vol, 1908–31), highly detailed description of all of India in 1901. online edition 1908, p. 265
- ^ Ben Cahoon, WorldStatesmen.org. "Pakistan Provinces". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2007.