Returns made by political officers in the Bombay Presidency of the tribute received from the Princely States under their superintendence (with associated correspondence)
‘Relative to the refusal, on the part of Captain Rowband of the Steamer “Hugh Lindsay”, to convey Mr Naylor, the Packet Agent and Her Majesty’s Vice Consul at Mocha, on board that vessel from Suez to Mocha; - to Mr Naylor’s uncivil treatment towards Sheik Tyeb, the late Native Agent; - also to the seizure by him of a bugla belonging to Syed Abdool bin Assum, in consequence of a claim advanced by an individual named Majet Abdool Russool to the said vessel.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to activities of Sampson Naylor, Packet Agent (also called Steam...
Papers regarding Palanpur State - general revenue and disbursement accounts for the official years 1835/36 and 1836/37 - revenue statements for the various talukas for 1836/37 (with associated correspondence)
Papers regarding three acts of Sati which took place at the village of Maholi near Satara on 1 Feb, 16 Mar and 22 Mar 1838 respectively - correspondence regarding the same between the Bombay Government and the Resident at Satara [Lieut Colonel Charles Ovans]
Expulsion from Abyssinia of the Reverend John Louis Krapf of the London Missionary Society allegedly through the machinations of a French Catholic priest
Papers regarding the Arab slave trade with the Portuguese settlements of Goa, Daman and Diu - opinion of the Advocate General of Bombay [A.C. Le Messurier] on the question of British intervention - memorandum by John Pollard Willoughby on measures taken by the Bombay Government to suppress the sl...
Application of the Collector of Belgaum [John Andrew Dunlop] for an increase in salary in view of his additional duties as Political Agent in the Southern Maratha Country
The item consists of copies of correspondence enclosed with a political letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The item refers to an update by Lieutenant J Buckle, Commander of the Company ship Euphrates, on the activity of Ibrahim Pach...
Complaint of Messrs Alexander Hector and Co of Baghdad against the Turkish Authorities for levying taxes which were not sanctioned by the existing treaty between Great Britain and Turkey
