This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 3 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 24-31 December 1856. The papers comprise the following: A copy of a letter from the Secret...
This item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 19 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosure is dated 2 February 1857 and comprises the following two documents issued by the Secretary to Govern...
Affairs in Sinde, and a Journal Describing the Route from Persia [Iran] to Afghanistan
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The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 126 of 1839, dated 23 November 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee related to affairs in Sinde [Sindh]. It also contains a translation of a journal submitted by Major Neil Campbell, A...
Abstract of Letters on the Indian Navy Steam Vessels serving with the China Expedition
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This part of the volume consists of an abstract of the contents of a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, No. 99 of 1842, dated 27 August 1842. It consists of the abstracts of letters from the Superintendent of the Indian Navy and of the enclosures for...
Sketch of the creek leading to Gharra [Gharo], represented on a ‘Scale of one Inch to the Mile, of 2040’ (the scale is stated, not drawn). By Lieutenants J Buckle and J S Greive IN [Indian Navy], Karrachi [Karachi], 21 March 1839. The sketch commences at ‘Munharo [Manora] Point’ (western side) ...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 10 of 1850, dated 16 February 1850. The enclosed papers, dated 19 December 1849 to 15 February 1850, concern affairs in Abyssinia [Ethiopia an...
John Malcolm's Report on the Condition of Affairs in Persia
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The item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter 8 September 1828. The enclosure consists of a memorandum by the President in Council, John Malcolm, on the condition of affairs in Persia [Iran] ...
Intelligence from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil Concerning Affairs in Persia [Iran]
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The letters convey intelligence of the movements of the Shah of Persia [Iran]; the Shah’s purported aggressive intentions regarding Afghanistan or ‘Khorassan’ (chiefly Herat), and Turkey [Ottoman Empire] (chiefly Bagdad [Baghdad] and Azerbijan [Azerbaijan]); conditions in Herat since the ending ...
Military Affairs in Afghanistan, India, Egypt and Syria, and Turkish Arabia
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The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 117 of 1839, dated 25 October 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee containing a précis of the latest financial, military, political and general intelligence on: Lahore; Mooltan [Multan...
Affairs in the Punjaub and the submission of Maharajah Duleep Sing
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Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 32 of 1846, dated 16 March 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs in the Punjaub [Punjab], including: the publication and dissemination of the announceme...