Charles Murray's Views on the Causes of Persia's Attack on Herat
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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 27 of 1856, dated 17 July 1856. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 8 May 1856. The enclosure consists of a copy of a letter from...
A Precis of Official Intelligence on the Affairs of Affghanistan, Sinde and Beloochistan
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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, No. 97 of 1842, and contains material relating to the following: The boundary dispute between Meer Ali Moorad Khan [Mīr ‘Alī Murād Khān Tālpūr] and Mee...
‘A Persian Prince named Mahomed Ali Khan, who lately arrived in Sind’
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Enclosure nos. 2-5 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 18 July 1848. The enclosures are dated 17 June-4 July 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the presence in Sind [Sindh] of Mahomed Ali Khan [Muḥammad ‘Alī Khān], son of All...
‘Persian Gulf: Slave Trade, Relative to the suppression of the’
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 47 of 22 December 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government ...
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 Prince of Sheerauz [Husayn 'Ali Mīrzā Farmānfarmā, Prince-Governor of Fārs] dated 20 March 1820. In response to the Prince’s earlier letter [IOR/L/PS/9/67/16], Keir states his desir...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 17 Apr 1820
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A translation of a paper of proposals to the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sa’īd bin Sultān Āl Bū Sa’īd] by Syed Abdul Jaleel [‘Abd al-Jalīl bin Yāsīn al-Ṭabāṭabā’ī], Ambassador of the Atoobees [‘Utūb] of Bahrein [Bahrain]. The paper describes proposed terms of peace between Bahrein and Muscat, includ...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 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 and dated 27 October 1819. The letter contains instructions for Keir’s expedition to the Per...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 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 and dated 27 November 1819. The letter contains instructions for the handover of power in Ras-...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 1820
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A copy of a letter from Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, sent from Bombay Castle and dated 28 February 1820. The letter transmits the observations of the Governor of Bombay [M...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 26 Dec 1820
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A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to the Marquis of Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Tehran and dated 20 December 1820. The letter reports developments in Anglo-Persian relations following the 1819 British expedition against ‘piracy’, ...
