The Policy of the Government of India in the Gulf of Oman
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Secret Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 37 of 1871, dated 30 June 1871, containing enclosures. The enclosures relate to the policy of the Government of India in the Gulf of Oman, in continuation of Secret despatch No. 13 of 3 ...
Recovery of Gates Believed to Have Been Plundered from the Temple of Somnath
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Enclosures nos. 1-2 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay. The enclosures are dated 12-17 November 1842. The enclosures contain English and Hindi copies of an address by the Governor-General of India ‘to the Princes and people of India’ about the ‘recovery’ from the to...
Recovery of Gates Believed to Have Been Plundered from the Temple of Somnath
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Unnumbered enclosures to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 31 December 1842. The enclosures are dated 10 November-27 December 1842. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the ‘recovery’ from the tomb of Sultaun Mahmood of Ghuznee [Maḥmūd...
‘Certain rules proposed for the guidance of the Political Authorities at Aden’
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Enclosures no. 2-17 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 11 February 1848. The enclosures are dated 15 April-21 September 1847. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the administration of Aden, including: A planned census of the town Pro...
Draft Letter from the Secret Committee to the Secretary of the Governor of Bombay
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A copy of a letter from the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Francis Warden, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], dated September 1807. The letter informs the Government of Bombay that John Michael Guy will be accompanying Sir Harford Jones, British...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 17 Apr 1820
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A draft letter from Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, to the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sa’īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa’īd] dated 19 March 1820. Keir acknowledges the receipt of the peace proposals between Muscat and the Atoobees [‘Utub] of Bahrein [B...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 16 July 1820
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A copy of a letter from Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], to Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, sent from Bombay Castle and dated 26 January 1820. The letter commends Keir for his actions in the Gulf and i...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 26 Dec 1820
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A translation of a letter from Hajee Mohammad Hussain Khan [Hājī Mohammad Husayn Khān Isfahānī], Sudr Aazim [Sadr-e ’Azam, Prime Minister] of Persia [Iran], to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, undated. The letter requests the removal of William Bruce, Reside...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 1 Sep 1821
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A copy of a letter from Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], sent from Bombay Castle and dated 12 May 1821. The letter forwards a dispatch from Commander of the British troops on Kishm [Qeshm] concerning the arrival of an...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 25 Jan 1822
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A copy of a letter from Dr Andrew Jukes, Political Agent, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Sheraz [Shīrāz] and dated 23 October 1821. The letter describes Jukes’s meetings with local officials including the Prince of Sheraz [Husayn ‘Ali Mīrzā Fa...
