Letter No.585 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter informing the Colonel that he considered his letter No.1260 of 3 September (received 11 September) to be of an improper tone and style and disrespectful to Merewether as head of the province and that as has failed to take Merewether's recorded opinions as instructions and chosen to disrega...
Letter from William Lockyer Merewether, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre
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Demi-official letter regarding the Colonel's response, dated 1 September 1870, to Merewether's letter of 28 August and again expressing his despair at the Colonel's inability to view his position 'in the proper light'. The letter goes on to remind Colonel Phayre that as his superior all communi...
Letter No.594 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, The Political Superintendent, Upper Sind Frontier
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Letter requesting that his letter to His Highness the Khan of Khelat [Kalāt] should still be forwarded to him, and commending the attitude assumed by Captain Charles Henry Harrison in the circumstances reported by him.
Letter No.539 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter informing Colonel Phayre that any difficulties between himself and the Khan of Khelat [Kalāt] are entirely of his own making, and stating that the Khan had acted entirely in his own rights to remove the Vakeel from Phayre's court and that this was something that had often occured in the p...
Letter No.557 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter in response to Colonel Phayre's letter No.1218 of 30 August 1870 stating that as the title 'Khan of Beloochistan' was not one officially used by the Khan the matter was not resolved and that there did not appear to be any hidden meaning behind it as Colonel Phayre had attempted to surmise...
Letter No.1579 of 1869 from Colonel Robert Phayre, C.B., Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sind, Jacobabad to Sir William Lockyer Merewether, the Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karachi]
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Letter submitting Phayre's views on the aim and scope of proposed alterations in arrangements for the Upper Sind part of the frontier. The letter refers to a sketch map (which is no longer enclosed) that detailed the area of the frontier in question and showed the boundaries of the various tri...
Letter No.785 of 1869 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, K.C.S.I. & C.B., Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Camp Mora to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Upper Sind Frontier
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Letter in response to Colonel Phayre's letter No. 1579 of 1869 drawing attention to certain points made in Phayre's observations. The points made by Merewether relate to the practicalities or otherwise of militaty positions proposed by Phayre; the limitations of some of Phayre's proposals such ...
Letter No.1725 of 1869 from Colonel Robert Phayre, the Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind, Jacobabad, to Sir William Lockyer Merewether, the Commissioner in Sind
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Letter regarding an examination undertaken by Phayre of the records of the office of political superintendent in order to give an historical outline of the principal events that have occured from the start of the current Khan of Kelat [Kalāt] (Khodadad Khan) 's reign in 1844 until now. Enclose...
Letter No.57 of 1869 from Captain Charles Henry Harrison, Political Agent, Kelat, at Jacobabad to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter supplying the information requested by Sir William Merewether in relation to the regular force maintained by the Khan of Kelat [Kalāt]; and the allegiences of the Chiefs of Beloochistan [Baluchistan]. The letter details the strength and composition of the Khan's forces, details how reve...
Letter No.1839 of 1869 from Colonel Robert Phayre, The Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind, Jacobabad to Sir William Lockyer Merewether, the Commissioner in Sind
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Letter discussing the report submitted by Captain Charles Henry Harrison regarding the Khan of Kelat [Kalāt]'s regular forces; and allegiances to and against him by the Chiefs of Beloochistan [Baluchistan]. The letter notes that the 'Umla' a body of household cavalry belonging to the Khan comp...
