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...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871. The papers consist of intelligence reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Herbert, Consul General at Baghdad, and Political Agent in Turkish Arabia. The reports include: the Turkish occupation of El-Hasa [Al Hasa]...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning Zanzibar affairs. The papers include: the suppression of the slave trade, and the British Government's wish to end the subsidy paid by the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Ruler of Muscat. The papers include c...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871 concerning affairs at Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas]. The papers cover: complaints about oppressive revenue farming at Bandar Abbas; the proposed lease of Bandar Abbas from the Government of Persia to Syud Toorkee [Sa...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning the Rebellion of Mahomed Yacoob Khan [Mohammad Yaqub Khan] in Afghanistan. The papers cover: telegram from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], concerning Persian policy in Afghanistan (fo...
Persian Movements on Chaga and the Seistan Boundary
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning Persian movements on Chaga [Chagai] and the Seistan [Sīstān] Boundary. The papers cover: political intelligence; tribal movements; reports of raids; the possibility of a threat by Persia against the terr...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning the claims of the Sultan of Lahej to Little Aden, part of the territory of the Akrabee [Akrabi] tribe. The papers cover: summary of relations between Lahej, the Akrabi tribe, and the British Government; ...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871. The papers consist of telegrams from the Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, enclosing correspondence from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly...
Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The letter encloses one from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 17 July 1871, describing the history of the Persian Government's interest in railway construction, and stating the need for such...