Las Bela
| Las Bela | |||||
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| Capital | Bela | ||||
| Form of government | Princely state (15 rounds salute) | ||||
| surface | 18,254 km² | ||||
| population | 76,000 (1901) | ||||
| founding | 1742 | ||||
| resolution | October 14, 1955 | ||||
| State religion: Islam Dynasty: Jamot (Kathuria) |
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Las (German "level") with the capital Bela (hence also called Las Bela ) was a province of the Kalat Khanate in southeast Baluchistan . It became virtually independent in 1742 under Jam Saheb 'Ali Khan I. The country had an area of 18,254 km² and 76,000 inhabitants (1901).
After the British had granted Pakistan and India independence in 1947, Jam Saheb Ghulam Qader Khan (1937–1955) joined Pakistan on March 17, 1948. On October 3, 1952, he joined the Baluchistan States Union, and on October 14, 1955, the principality was dissolved. Today the area is a district of the Kalat Division of the Pakistani province of Balochistan and is officially written in one word Lasbela . Ghulam Qader Khan was chief minister of the Pakistani province of Balochistan in 1973/74 and 1985–1988.
From 1897–1907 Las Bela had its own postal service that carried letters as a feeder to the British-Indian post between Bela and Karachi .
See also
literature
- Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India , CD-ROM, Hamburg 2004
- Imperial Gazetteer of India, 2nd A., 26 vol., Oxford 1908–1931
- Hans von Rudolphi: The postage stamps from Las Bela , Wiesbaden 1960
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia , 2nd A., New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6