Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871. The Enclosures consist of correspondence between the Government of Bombay and the Government of India, containing points of administrative clarification in relation to correspondence concerning the slave trade, and...
Settlement and Demarcation of the Frontier between Persia and Baluchistan
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement and demarcation of the frontier between Persia and Khelat [Kalāt], in Beloochistan [Baluchistan]. The frontier settlement mission was led by Major-General Frederick John Goldsmid. The pape...
Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement of the opposing claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan [Sistan]. The papers lead up to the establishment of a commission of arbitration of the Seistan boundary, under the adjudication ...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871. The papers cover: the aims of the Ottoman military expedition against Nejd [Najd]; correspondence with Midhut Pasha, Governor General of Baghdad; British support for Bahrein [Bahrain]; the movements of British wars...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871. The papers concern the seizure and execution of a messenger from the 'pirate', Nassir bin Mobarik, to Jassim bin Mahomed bin Thani [Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī] of Gwuttur [Qatar], at Bahrein [Bahrain], and...
Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 6 December 1871. The letter encloses a report by the Agent at Cabul [Kabul], on the intentions of the Amir of Afghanistan in relation to Seistan [Sistan]. The Amir had given stringent orders to his dependent rulers not to allow any ...