‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 53
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The volume consists of Enclosures to Despatches to the East India Company Secret Committee from the Government of Bombay Secret Department, dated 30 November-31 December 1842. The despatches themselves are not included in the volume. The enclosures relate to various events in Aden, Afghanistan...
Enclosure no. 9 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 1 December 1842. The enclosure is dated 2 November 1842. A note attached to folio 372 states that ‘(Enclosures Nos 2-8 are missing)’. The enclosure contains an account by Captain Charles Delamain, commanding ...
Enclosures nos. 2-10 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 December 1842. The enclosures are dated 17 November-29 December 1842. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the withdrawal of the steam flotilla on the Euphrates and the trans...
Enclosure nos. 2-17 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 December 1842. The enclosures are dated 16 November-30 December 1842. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, primarily concerned with a significant campaign of ...
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...