Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871, concerning the proposed appointment of a British Agent in Yezd [Yazd]. The proposal came in response to a memorial from British traders at Bushire and Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas], and was designed to protect the t...
Payment of Rs. 8000 to Sir Frederick John Goldsmid from Indian accounts
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Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871. The papers concern the adjustment of Rs. 8000 by the Government of India, which had been advanced by HM Minister at Teheran [Tehran] to Major-General Sir Frederick John Goldsmid, as a political charge on the Govern...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871, concerning the protection of Christians in Persia, following the execution of a Muslim at Tabreez (Tabriz) for the murder of an Armenian Christian. British officials intervened following alleged attempts by local o...
Report of a Meeting between the Shah of Persia and the Emperor of Russia
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Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871. The Despatch forwards a letter from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 21 June 1871, reporting that the Shah of Persia was to meet the Emperor of Russia at Tiflis that summer.
Joint Tribute Payable by Qatar and Bahrain to the Amir of Najd
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 6 December 1871. The letter encloses one from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 12 September 1871. The Enclosure concerns a report fro...
The Execution of a Persian Subject by the Ottoman Authorities at Baghdad
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Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 13 December 1871, concerning the capture and execution by the Ottoman authorities at Baghdad of Shah Riza, a Persian subject, on a charge of brigandage on Ottoman territory. The Enclosure is a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Charles ...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871. The Enclosures consist of intelligence reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Major Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent and Consul, Muscat; and the Agent at Shiraz, a...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 17 October 1871, concerning the claims of the Sultan of Lahej to Little Aden, part of the territory of the Akrabee [Akrabi] tribe. The papers cover: summary of relations between Lahej, the Akrabi tribe, and the British Government; ...
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 20 December 1871, concerning the Mekran [Makran] dependencies of Muscat: Gwadur [Gwadar] and Charbar [Chābahār]. The papers cover: the view of the Government of Bombay that the Sultan of Muscat, Syud Toorkee [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa‘ī...
Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement of the opposing claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan [Sistan]. The papers lead up to the establishment of a commission of arbitration of the Seistan boundary, under the adjudication ...