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...
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 54 of 1847, dated 3 June 1847. The enclosures are dated 13 April to 3 June 1847 and contain correspondence relating to affairs of the East India and China Navy. Papers comprise corresponden...
An Attempt at a Rough Sketch of Kaffiristan from Kaffir Information
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Sketchmap of Kaffiristan [Nuristan] by Peter Stark Lumsden, a member of theKandahar Mission, a British diplomatic mission to Afghanistan. A note on the map states that 'The Cabul [Kabul] River and position of Jelalabad [Jalalabad] etc. are taken from the Surveyor General's Office Map of Afghanist...
This sketch map shows a plan of the city of Bussorah [Basra]. A numbered list identifies major buildings, and also indicates the city walls and gates, bazars [bazaars], and ruins. The Shatt al-Arab (labelled as the Euphrates), other hydrology, and vegetation are also indicated. The map is a cop...
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 46 of 1856, dated 8 October 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 2 to 11 September 1856. They consist of copies of two de...
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 55 of 1856, dated 8 November 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 1 to 3 November 1856. They consist of letters from the ...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 243 of 1869, dated 22 July 1869, containingenclosures dated 9 May-14 July 1869. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relatingto events in Bahrein [Bahrain], including the settleme...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 351 of 1869, dated 18 October 1869,containing enclosures dated 5 September-9 October 1869. The enclosures consist of copies ofcorrespondence relating to events in Muscat and Oman, particularly re...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 24 of 1869, dated 16 November 1869,containing enclosures dated 11 September-14 November 1869. The enclosures consist of copies ofcorrespondence relating to an attack on Bahrein [Bahrain] led by t...