Word: kalat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regions bounding Persia are (in clockwise order) ; the Republic of Turkey; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia; the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic; the Caspian Sea; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan ("Turkestan") ; the Amirate of Afghanistan ; the Kalat State of Anglo-Indian Baluchistan; the Gulf of Oman ; the Persian Gulf and (completing the clockwise circle) the Kingdom of Irak, a British mandate...
From the League of Nations anti-slavery office it was announced during the week that H. H. Beglar Begi Mir bir Mahmud Khan, Wali of Kalat, cooperating with the Government of India, has abolished slavery in the Kalat district of Baluchistan, remote Indian province. Formerly male and female slaves have been so absolutely the property of their owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached...