Word: kalat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added last week to Quetta's 26,000 dead were estimates of at least 30,000 more buried in the ruins of a hundred villages and towns from Kalat to Mastung. Survivors at Quetta watched with weary awe last week as another earthquake split a mountain in the distance and made a depression where the peak had been...
...quake swept up the Plain of No Riches, along the farther side of the Suliman mountain wall. When it stopped, Quetta, Kalat, Mastung, Shikapur and dozens of villages were a plain of rubble. Alert Sir Alexander yelled to his household to stand in the doorways. The house tumbled but the doorways stood. Then Sir Alexander went to work...
Prime fear of the British last week was that the superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...
...Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states of Baluchistan, Lord Willingdon noted with approval a sign To London, 5,877 Miles...
...Kalat differs from the other states of the Indian Empire," said Lord Willingdon from his Throne, "in that it is a confederacy of nomad tribes, closely akin to the khanates of Central Asia and the emirates of Arabia." This being so, His Excellency voiced special pleasure in greeting on behalf of George V and installing on the Kalat Throne a tall, white-robed nomad who advanced majestically and was hailed by the Viceroy with his full name and rank, "Mir Azam Jang Khan, Wali of Kalat and Khan of the Brahui Confederacy...