This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 47 of 1856, dated 8 October 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 6 September to 8 October 1856. They consist of two despa...
Intelligence Forwarded by Sir Alexander Burnes Relating to Progress of the British Invasion of Afghanistan (First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842)
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Copies of intelligence despatches from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Burnes, Envoy to Kelat [Kalat, also spelled Khelat in this volume], to William Hay Macnaghten, Envoy and Minister at Shah Shoojah’s Camp [Shah Shuja ul-Mulk], (copied to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, ...
Supplying the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus During the British-led Invasion of Afghanistan
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Copies of correspondence and other papers, chiefly comprising communications between Henry Pottinger, Resident in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in this volume], and the Government of India, Bombay [Mumbai], regarding his arrangements for obtaining and transporting stores and supplies for the...
The papers mainly relate to the British-led invasion of Afghanistan. They chiefly comprise copies of reports by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Burnes, Envoy to Kelat, to William Hay Macnaghten, Envoy and Minister at the camp of Shah Shoojah [Shāh Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni], as forwarded to John P...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 54 of 1856, dated 28 July 1856. The enclosures are dated 19 June-7 July 1856. The enclosures chiefly comprise letters from Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, Acting...
This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 57 of 1856, dated 9 August 1856. The enclosure is dated 12 March-16 April 1856. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Ind...
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan, Kelat and Persia
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 2 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 11-16 December 1856. The papers chiefly comprise two letters from Lieutenant-Colonel John J...
Sind Affairs and Matters Relating to Afghanistan, Kelat and Persia
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 20 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 5-20 January 1857. The enclosures comprise despatches of Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, A...
This part contains papers mostly relating to British interests in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf. It includes a copy of the Board of Trade Commercial Intelligence Committee ‘Report received from Mr. H. W. Maclean, the Special Commissioner appointed by the Commercial Intelligence Committee ...
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (30 July 1856, Number 31) and the Government of Bombay (9 August 1856, Numbers 56-59). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The despatch from the Gover...