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mutual understanding between highlanders and plainspeople
 has been more generally adjusted by weight of
silver than of gun-metal.
Some explanation seems necessary of the political
boundaries of Baluchistan as they usually appear in our
frontier maps, where a central section of the country
enclosed within a narrow red line indicates British

OVER 2000

F1G. 11.—The Trans-Indus Inland Basins.

Baluchistan dividing the independent Pathan tribes of
Northern Baluchistan from the equally independent
Baluch tribes of the south. Within the limits of British
Baluchistan are the districts of Quetta and Bolan, held
and administered by the Indian Government on behalf
of Mir Mahmud Khan, the ruler of Kalat, in lieu of
an annual subsidy of 25,000 rupees—which has lately
been increased since Nushki has been included within
the red line. A further sum of 30,000 rupees is paid to
the Khan as compensation for duties levied in the Bolan.