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IOR/L/PS/5/380

Record Id:

040-000539226

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-000538832

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000319.0x0000c3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/L/PS/5/380

Title:

‘Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay’, Vol 18

Scope & Content:

The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee.

The volume is divided into fifteen items:

Affairs in Sinde [Sindh] and Afghanistan (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 1A-131)
Affairs in Central Arabia (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 132-138)
Sattara [Satara] Government Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 139-142)
Affairs in Sawunt Warree [Sawantwadi] (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 143-145)
Trial of Lieutenant Gilbard of the 16th Regiment Native Infantry, British India (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 146-153)
Military Affairs in Afghanistan, India, Egypt and Syria, and Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 154-210)
Affairs in the Persian Gulf, Turkish Arabia, and Syria (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 211-276)
Untitled (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 277-278)
The Conduct of Captain Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 279-290)
Operations in India and Affghanistan [Afghanistan] (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 291-299)
Sending Iron Steamers on Board the Urania for Service on the Euphrates and Tigris (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 300-322)
Affairs in Aden (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 323-392)
Arrangements Made for Providing Captain Arthur Conolly of the Bengal Cavalry with a Passage to India (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 393-420)
Affairs in Sinde, and a Journal Describing the Route from Persia [Iran] to Afghanistan (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 421-509)
Affairs in the Persian Gulf, Turkish Arabia, and Syria (IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 510-703).

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539208
040-000539226

Is part of:

IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/363-509 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay

IOR/L/PS/5/380 : ‘Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay’, Vol 18

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0018]/040-000539226

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (705 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1839

End Date:

1839

Date Range:

13 Mar 1839-28 Nov 1839

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 703; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

The sequence contains two foliation insertion anomalies, f 1a and f 2a.

Arrangement:

The enclosures to each despatch within the volume (each item) are divided by blue dividers. The sets of enclosures to despatches are arranged in numerical (by despatch number) and chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. The enclosures within each despatch are preceded by an abstract of contents in which the despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1, the abstract of contents 2, and the enclosures 3, 4, etc. The numbers listed in the abstract of contents are recorded for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure, along with the original reference, and a description of each enclosure.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Public Record(s)

Names:

East India Company, Court of Directors, Secret Committee, 1683?-1857
Government of Bombay, Political Department, 1754-1934?