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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/253, ff 373-482
Title:: Affairs in Herat
Scope & Content:: Enclosure nos. 3-33 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to events in Herat, and its status after the withdrawal of Persian occupation at the end of the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. Subjects covered i...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Sep 1857-22 Jan 1859
Extent:: 1 item (110 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/258
Title:: 'INDEX AND ABSTRACTS TO INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE (SECRET BRANCH) 1866 TO 1874'
Scope & Content:: This volume is an indexed manuscript inventory of abstracts of the despatches comprising sub-series IOR/L/PS/5/259-277, ‘Secret Letters and Enclosures from India’ 1866-1874, volumes 1-19. The geographical coverage of this volume (and of series IOR/L/PS/5/259-277) is chiefly: Afghanistan; Centr...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1866-1874
Extent:: 1 volume (230 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268
Title:: Secret Letters and Enclosures from the Government of India
Scope & Content:: Government of India Foreign Department letters (marked 'Secret' or 'Political'), sent to the Secretary of State for India, with Enclosures. The letters are dated 10 October - 27 December 1871. The papers relate to Zanzibar, Afghanistan, India, Persia, Turkish Arabia, Aden, Muscat, the Persian ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jan 1871-30 Jan 1872
Extent:: 1 volume (667 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 69-77
Title:: Zanzibar Affairs
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871, concerning Zanzibar. The papers cover: the accession of Syud Burgash [Saiyid Barghash] as Sultan of Zanzibar; the despatch of HMS Wolverine to Zanzibar, and the question of whether the Wolverine should salute the n...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jan 1871-9 Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 item (9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 108-112
Title:: Protection of Christians in Persia
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871, concerning the protection of Christians in Persia, following the execution of a Muslim at Tabreez (Tabriz) for the murder of an Armenian Christian. British officials intervened following alleged attempts by local o...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Jun 1871-9 Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 item (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 113-116
Title:: Report of a Meeting between the Shah of Persia and the Emperor of Russia
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871. The Despatch forwards a letter from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 21 June 1871, reporting that the Shah of Persia was to meet the Emperor of Russia at Tiflis that summer.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Jun 1871-9 Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 item (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 117-123
Title:: Persian Government Ban on the Export of Grain
Scope & Content:: Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871. The Despatch concerns a prohibition by the Persian Government on the export and storage of grain and provisions, as a result of a grain shortage. The correspondence shows that British officials felt that the measur...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Jul 1871-9 Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 item (7 folios)

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