IOR/P/438/6

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Political branch of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of May-August 1869. The Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department.

The subjects covered include:

• Affairs in and around Aden including: the retention of the Arab Levy at Aden on a reduced scale (41-49, May Proceedings); release of the remaining Abyssinian 'chiefs' (181, May Proceedings); affairs at Aden and in its vicinity (200-229, June Proceedings); the claim of Sultan Fadhil Mahsin [Sulṭān Faḍl Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī] of Lahej to Little Aden (308-313, July Proceedings); information regarding Shehur [Shihr] on the Hadramant [Hadhramaut] Coast (212, August Proceedings)
• Affairs in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman including: Muscat affairs (276-279, June Proceedings; 115-120 and 154-180, August Proceedings); affairs at Mekran [Makran] (1-5, July Proceedings); Khelat [Kalat] Affairs (206-213, July Proceedings); flags used by vessels carrying consular passes (67-72, August Proceedings)
• Affairs in the Sultanate of Zanzibar including: the arrival of the Zanzibar envoy at Bombay (278-279, May Proceedings); the claims of Charles Henry McGill on the Sultan of Zanzibar (330-332, May Proceedings); the appropriation of fines realised at the Zanzibar Consulate (96-100, June Proceedings); affairs at Zanzibar (247-251, June Proceedings); the suppression of the trade in enslaved people at Zanzibar (229-240, July Proceedings); prevention of the trade in enslaved people in Zanzibar by Kutch subjects (304-308, July Proceedings); the presents made to General Rigsby by the Sultan of Zanzibar (333-335, July Proceedings)
• Affairs in Persia [Iran] including: prisoner Saeed Seedee [Sa‘īd Sīdī] being found guilty of murder at Bassadore [Basaidu] (50-55, May Proceedings); encroachments of Persia in Khelat [Kalat] (88-94, May Proceedings); opium cultivation in China and Persia (109-113, May Proceedings); the expectation that Hajee Ahmed [Ḥājī Aḥmad] will become Governor of Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ‘Abbas] (210-251, May Proceedings); discourteous proceedings of the Governor of Bunpoor [Bampur], Kerman province (259-268, May Proceedings); a petition from the Persian Consul regarding timber (34-38, June Proceedings); proposed new mission building, Tehran (181-182, June Proceedings); obstruction to trade at the port of Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] (265-267, June Proceedings); destruction of a Persian craft by HMS vessel Dryad (270-272, June Proceedings); recognition of Lingah as a port of entry (273-275, June Proceedings; conduct of certain Persian officials on the Mekran Coast (357-421, June Proceedings); affairs at Bushire [Bushehr] (336-340, July Proceedings); Indo-European Telegraph Company's Treaty with the Persian Government (263-266, August Proceedings)
• Affairs in the Persian Gulf (276-277, May Proceedings; 9-17, June Proceedings); frauds practised by Turkish custom houses in the Persian Gulf (183-185, June Proceedings); alleged breach of maritime peace by the Ruler of Shargah [Sharjah] (133-137, August Proceedings); satisfactory termination of the pilgrimage to Mecca (175- 177, May Proceedings)
• Disappearance of three English seamen of the Wasp and capture of an Arab dhow (269-299, May Proceedings)
• Movements of HMS Dryad (268-269, June Proceedings).

The Proceedings also cover tribal relations, disturbances and armaments, debts of princely states and granting of lands in India. Printed in Calcutta [Kolkata] by J L Kingham, Foreign Department Press, 1869.