Persian Gulf Affairs Relating to the Sovereignty of Bahrein
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 82 of 1869, dated 13 March 1869, with an enclosure numbered 2, dated 17 February 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Gove...
Afghanistan Affairs, Muscat Affairs, and Memorandum of Intelligence ('Newsletter')
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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...
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, [Bombay Secret Letter] No. 1 dated 2 January 1856. The enclosures are dated 3-17 December 1855. The enclosures comprise three letters from Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Co...
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Sind, Kelat and Afghanistan
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 15 dated 16 February 1856. The enclosures are dated 14 January-4 Feburary 1856. The papers comprise two reports forwarded by Henry Bartle Edw...
Part of a letter from Harford Jones to Alexander Stratton
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Part of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Alexander Stratton, HM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 9 August 1802. The letter describes events following the death of Soliman Pasha Pasha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghda...
This item contains translations of four letters from Persia [Iran] received by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], on 2 October 1802: 1. A letter from Meerza Reza Kooli [Mīrzā Rezā Qulī Navā’ī Munshī al-Mamālik, Principal Secretary to the Shah of Persia], to Harford Jones. The letter c...
File 1323/1916 Pt 1 ‘Baluchistan:- Disturbed conditions on the Anglo-Persian border. Future administration of Mekran, Sarhad & the Kalat States’
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The part contains reports, correspondence, and printed copies of correspondence, relating to affairs on the frontiers between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [Pakistan], as well as between British Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The part includes: reports of unrest and desertion amongst the Z...
PZ 4121/1939 'Visit of one Niall Rankin to Kuwait: question of unfulfilled promise to send film of visit to Shaikh'
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This file contains drafted, handwritten letters with annotations, as well as formal correspondence, sent between British officials in the Persian Gulf relating to the visit of Niall Rankin to Kuwait and his unfulfilled promise to send a copy of his film, much of which was set in Kuwait, to the S...
Pol Ext 7747/49 'Administration of charitable rest house Rampur Rabat, Jedda, maintained by ruler of the state of Rampur: scrutiny of earlier papers by Indian consul'
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This file contains correspondence relating to a request made by the Indian and Pakistani Consuls in Jeddah, for access to files in the possession of the British Government’s Ambassador. The files are said to detail ‘dealings’ between the British Government and the former Government of India, in p...
Coll 7/28 'Nepal: scheme for installation of cartridge-making plant; supply of Martini-Henry ammunition, Vickers-Barthier guns, gas masks, etc to Nepalese government'
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Correspondence regarding requests for arms, ammunition and related materials and machinery from the Government of Nepal. The following topics are discussed: the Government of Nepal's wish to construct a cartridge (ammunition) factory, and related requests for technical advice from the Woolwich A...
