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036-000538832 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Candahar, Afghanistan

1. IOR/L/PS/5/160, f 97v

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/160, f 97v
Title:
Plan of Officers' Quarters
Scope & Content:
Plan of new officers’ quarters to be built near Candahar [Kandahar] for officers in the Indian Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War. The plan was drawn by Lieutenant William Fraser-Tytler, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Candahar.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1841
Extent:
1 plan

2. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 34-42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 34-42
Title:
Intelligence Report ('Newsletter')
Scope & Content:
Intelligence report, entitled ‘Newsletter', dated 11 May 1839, covering: Peshawur [Peshawar]; the Army of the Indus; (chiefly regarding its approach to Candahar [Kandahar]); Upper Scinde [Sindh]; Joudhpore [Jodhpur]; Jhansi; Bithoor [Bithur]; Nipal [Nepal]; Ava [Inwa]; and Items of General Intel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1839
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/138
Title:
Enclosures to Secret Letters from India, Vol 57
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of secret correspondence relating to the British-led invasion of Afghanistan in 1839. The letters and memoranda cover the period beginning with the landing of the so-called Army of the Indus in Sinde [Sindh, also written as Scinde] in late 1838 to its arrival in Candah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Dec 1838-27 May 1839
Extent:
1 volume (806 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/160, f 97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/160, f 97
Title:
Map of a Site for New Buildings at Candahar
Scope & Content:
Sketch map showing the proposed site for new public buildings at Candahar [Kandahar], with existing and proposed buildings both marked. The map was drawn by Lieutenant William Fraser-Tytler, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Candahar.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1841
Extent:
1 map sheet

5. IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 21-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 21-30
Title:
Herat and Candahar Affairs
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 49 of 1856, dated 8 October 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-6 and are dated 11 June to 30 September 1856. They consist of: correspon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1856
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/143
Title:
'Enclosures to Secret Letters from India', Vol 62
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports, financial and statistical statements and translations of local 'newsletters', relating to diplomatic, military and logistical aspects of the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1839
Extent:
1 volume (797 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 43-44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 43-44
Title:
Memorandum of Intelligence from Candahar
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, dated 18 May 1839, Kurrachee [Karachi], comprises a report by a merchant who left Candahar [Kandahar] on 29 April. It covers: the arrival of the British Army of the Indus at Candahar on 23 April 1839, the ‘submission’ of local chiefs to Shah Shoojah [Shāh Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni];...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1839
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 87-103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 87-103
Title:
Afghanistan Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the British-led invasion of Afghanistan. It comprises a letter dated 23 May 1839, from Thomas Herbert Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], forwarding a copy of a new...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1839-20 Jun 1839
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 1A-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 1A-27
Title:
Reports from the Commissioner in Sind
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 1 of 1853, dated 3 January 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-22. There is a note on folio 1 dated 2 November 1906 stating that numbers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1853-2 Nov 1906
Extent:
1 item (28 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 262-278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 262-278
Title:
Afghanistan Affairs, Muscat Affairs, and Memorandum of Intelligence ('Newsletter')
Scope & Content:
This item comprises three separate documents, as follows: General Orders issued by Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Indus (published in the London Gazette 30 August 1839), congratulating the army and its commanders on the capture of Candahar [Kandahar] an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1839-4 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 item (17 folios)