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 20 December 1871. The Enclosures contain correspondence from John Kirk, Acting Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar (dated August-September 1871), concerning events in Zanzibar, including: a description of a raid that resulted in d...
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...
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 20 December 1871. The Enclosures consist of Despatches from Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Herbert, Consul-General, Baghdad, to the British Ambassador in Constantinople, concerning affairs in Turkish Arabia. The Despatches cover: insu...
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, concerning Zanzibar. The papers cover: the accession of Syud Burgash [Saiyid Barghash] as Sultan of Zanzibar; the despatch of HMS Wolverine to Zanzibar, and the question of whether the Wolverine should salute the n...
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...
Legal Cases Dealt with by Political Officers in the Persian Gulf
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871. The papers include correspondence dated 1870-71 concerning the legal claims of British subjects, chiefs, and others, dealt with by the Assistant Resident, Persian Gulf (Major Sidney Smith) during the cruise of HM ...
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...