This volume mainly relates to British policy in Arabia, and specifically concerns British relations with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Bin Saud]. The papers cover the Hejaz-Nejd War of 1924-25 and political affairs in Ib...
Supplying the Bombay Division of the Army of the Indus During the British-led Invasion of Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence and other papers, chiefly comprising communications between Henry Pottinger, Resident in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in this volume], and the Government of India, Bombay [Mumbai], regarding his arrangements for obtaining and transporting stores and supplies for the...
The arrival of the Semiramis from the Persian Gulf, and its Commander’s Report of His Proceedings
Scope & Content:
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, Number 131 of 1842, dated 1 November 1842. The enclosure is numbered 1 and is dated 31 October 1842. There is no abstract of contents. The enclosure...
The Brass Guns Sent to Bombay from Afghanistan and Intended as a Present to the King of Prussia
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 31 of 1843, dated 1 May 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-9 and are dated 26 February to 5 April 1843. The enclosures relate to bras...
Affairs Relating to Hajee Mahomed Rahim Khan, Persian Consul at Bombay, and Disputes between other Persian Nationals in India
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 97 of 1846, dated 26 August 1846. The enclosures are dated 22 October 1844-15 August 1846. The principal correspondents are: Mirza Mahomed Hadee [Mīrzā Muḥammad...
‘A complaint preferred by the Prime Minister of Persia, that the Persian Consul at Bombay had been subjected to certain indignities and oppression’
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-13 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 June 1848. The enclosures are dated 16 March-30 June 1848, and include copies of documents dated 28 October 1841-5 January 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to a complai...
Political No. 226 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Relating to the Enforced Resignation of the Wuzeer of Persia, his Subsequent Reinstatement by the Shah, Appointment to the Governorship of Ghilan, and Call to Teheran
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 26 December and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 19 January 1874, forwarding copies of papers relating to the enforced resignation of the Wuz...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf and Muscat (Vol 9) - Negotiations between the Wahabees and the British Government - Meeting of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf with the Confidential Envoy of the Wahabee Ameer
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bom...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf, Vol 1 – Lieutenant-Colonel Pelly’s Explanation of his Recent Proceedings
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 37 of 28 February 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of I...
Political No. 28 of 1876, Indian Merchants in GutturSummoned to Lahsa
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a copy of a Political Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 28 of 1876, dated 4 February 1876, submitting enclosures related to the treatment of two British Indian merchants resident at El-Bidaa [Al Bidda, now a n...
