IOR/P/3036

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of July-December 1887. These Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department (renamed Foreign and Political Department in 1914).

The subjects covered include:

• Affairs in and around the Aden Protectorate, including relations with tribes and polities around Aden. An 'Administration Report on the Settlement of Aden, 1886-87' is on folios 481-98
• Affairs in Burma [Myanmar]
• Affairs in East Africa, particularly the Somali Coast and Zanzibar. A 'Report on the Administration of the Somali Coast for the year 1886-87' is on folios 579-95
• Political, administrative, judicial, economic and military affairs in India, particularly Assam and Baluchistan
• Affairs relating to Indian Princely States, particularly Jammu and Kashmir, and Manipur
• Affairs in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
• Affairs in Persia [Iran], particularly in relation to the telegraph station at Jask and a complaint about the Political Agent, Lingah [Bandar Lengeh]
• Affairs in the Persian Gulf, particularly in relation to the suppression of the trade in enslaved people
• Affairs in Siam [Thailand], particularly in relation to the new British Vice-Consulate at Chiengmai [Chiang Mai]
• Affairs in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]
• Incidents related to pilgrims travelling through Jedda [Jeddah]
• Copies of British treaties with Belgium, Greece and Zanzibar.

The volume includes eight maps and plans, as follows:

• 'THE JUNIPER TRACTS WORTH CONSERVATION To accompany Baluchistan Forest Report for 1885-86' on folio 34, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 34
• Plans for the New Vice-Consulate Buildings at Chiengmai on folio 215, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 215
• 'Plan of Right Bank of River near Fao [Al-Faw]' on folio 305, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 305
• 'Plan Shewing Position of Telegraph Station at Fao and Site of New Turkish Fort at Entrance of the Shat-el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab]' on folio 306, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 306
• 'Plan of Fort near Fao' on folio 307, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 307
• Map of the Districts and Sub-Districts of the Baluchistan Agency on folio 537, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 537
• Map of the Proposed New Districts and Sub-Districts of the Baluchistan Agency on folio 538, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 538
• 'Map of the Somali Coast Under British Protection' on folio 580, which has been catalogued as IOR/P/3036, f 580.

Small amounts of correspondence in French are present in the volume, as well as documents printed in Burmese.

Tabular Statements of matters of routine for each month - also known as “B” proceedings - are included at the end of each month’s Proceedings. These summarise documents that were not considered important enough by the Foreign Department to be sent to London.