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...
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 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 ...
‘SKETCH MAP OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ADEN SHEWING THE KAFILAH ROUTES’
Scope & Content:
A sketch map prepared by the Political Residency at Aden. The map shows trade routes leading to Aden and the principal tribes in the neighbourhood. More details about the purpose of the map are provided at folios 566-569.
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...
‘Map illustrating arbitral opinion on Seistan Boundary (General Goldsmid’s report 46, august 1872)’
Scope & Content:
A map illustrating the frontier laid down by arbitrator, the frontier claimed by Persian Commissioner, and the frontier claimed by the Afghan Commissioner. The map is part of a report prepared by Major-General Frederic John Goldsmid and sent to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign D...