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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, 1784-1858 Level [41] Item

1. IOR/F/4/1913/81810

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1913/81810
Title:
‘Slave Trade – Carried on between Abyssinia & the different Ports in the Red Sea.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence enclosed within letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], the India Board, and the Foreign Office. The item relates to: Suggestions by the above correspondents for suppressing the trade in enslaved people from the coasts of Abyssin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1837-7 Aug 1841
Extent:

1 item (21 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2157/103838

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2157/103838
Title:
‘Slave Trade’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copy extracts of Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dating from 12 November 1845-3 August 1846. Enclosures to these letters can be found at: IOR/F/4/2157/103839; IOR/F/4/2157/103840; IOR/F/4/2157/103841; IOR/F/4/2157...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1844-8 Sep 1846
Extent:
1 item (38 folios)

3. IOR/F/4/2235/112011

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2235/112011
Title:
Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of political and secret letters from the Government of Bombay to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of five items on the Persian Gulf. The item concerns...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1847-15 Apr 1848
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

4. IOR/F/4/2326/121242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2326/121242
Title:
‘Persia. Meerza Abul Husson Khan deceased Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Shah of- Relative to the continuance of his pension to his son’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Government of Bombay Political Letter to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 31 August 1849. The item concerns the question of whether the Company should...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1848-31 Aug 1849
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

5. IOR/G/29/32, ff 509-514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 509-514
Title:
Correspondence Regarding Lord Castlereagh's Letter to the Pasha of Bagdad [Baghdad]
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between John Meheux, Board of Control for India, and Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], regarding the sufficient type of box and bag to be used for a letter from Lord Castlereagh [Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh], President of the Board of Control, to the Pasha (...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1803-14 Sep 1805
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

6. IOR/G/29/32, ff 515-525

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 515-525
Title:
Correspondence Relating to Sir Harford Jones's Position as Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Charles Arbuthnot, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Lord Castlereagh [Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh], President of the Board of Control for India; Jacob Bosanquet (and his successor, Charles Grant), Chairman of the Court of Directors; and Sir Harford Jones, Resident...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1805-3 Apr 1806
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

7. IOR/G/29/38, ff 426-427

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 426-427
Title:
Letter from William Hamilton, Foreign Office, to Mr Jones, Board of Control, 6 March 1810
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a letter from William Richard Hamilton, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, to Benjamin Jones, Assistant Secretary at the Board of Control. The letter is a request that any books of correspondence relating to diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran] be sent to the Fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

8. IOR/G/29/38, ff 428-431

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 428-431
Title:
List of Papers relative to Persia sent to the Foreign Office, March 1810
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a list of papers, with notes on content, sent to the Foreign Office by the Board of Control and relating to Persia [Iran].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1810
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

9. IOR/G/29/38, ff 451-454

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 451-454
Title:
Memorandum on the contents of a dispatch from Mr Rich to the Chairman, relative to the state of affairs in Persia.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of an India Board [Board of Control] memorandum relating to Persia [Iran] and concerning the contents of a dispatch from Claudius James Rich, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to the Chairman of the Court of Directors (dated 10 June 1817). The memorandum discusses the danger to Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1817
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/5/230, ff 34-59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/230, ff 34-59
Title:
Anglo-Persian War: British Operations in the Persian Gulf and the Appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram as Commander of the Expeditionary Force
Scope & Content:
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 5 of 1857, dated 9 January 1857. The enclosures are numbered 3-14 and are dated 7 December 1856-7 January 1857. The initial enclosure co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)