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Mss Eur F213/25, p225

Record Id:: 041-002301908
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-002301764
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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F213/25, p225
Title:: Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse
Scope & Content:: Acknowledges Hobhouse's letters of 23 December and 4 January; because of Indian habit of writing to newspapers, and increasing attention given by English press to 'each flying rumour' in Indian papers, he reports all frontier disturbances, however minor, to reassure Hobhouse that he is not suppressing anything – Hobhouse should assume them to be trifling unless Dalhousie informs him otherwise; has held durbar for frontier tribal chiefs at Kalabagh; measures to strengthen military hold on frontier; situation in Afghanistan; plans to improve irrigation system in Derajat; geological survey of Kalabagh area; survey of navigability of Punjab rivers already in progress, and is about to address Bombay Govt regarding establishment of regular steamer service since private enterprise has failed to take it up – such a service will be valuable for movement of ordnance, military stores and troops; excellent country road constructed from Rawalpindi to Indus which will facilitate troop movements; justifies expense of tours by Governors-General and urges that company should permit Governors of Madras and Bombay to do likewise – it would have salutary effect on their administration and would have remedied some defects which Mackay may pounce on; Sind allowances; Peshwa is dead, and Dalhousie will resist any demand from his family, or the Court of Directors, to continue reduced pensions, since he had more than £2,500,000 from Indian revenues; encloses newspaper report of Napier's speech to 78th Highlanders.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:: India Office Private Papers
Hierarchy Record Ids:: 032-002301764
036-002301791
040-002301881
041-002301908
Is part of:: Mss Eur F213 : Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, as President of the Board of Control 1835-41 and 1846-52
Mss Eur F213/21-28 : John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, President of the Board of Control 1846-52: correspondence with persons in India and…
Mss Eur F213/25 : Letters from persons in India and elsewhere. Principal correspondents: J.E.D. Bethune, Lord Dalhousie, Lord Falkland, Sir…

Mss Eur F213/25, p225 : Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse
Hierarchy:: 032-002301764[0008]/036-002301791[0005]/040-002301881[0027]/041-002301908
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Record Type (Level):: Item
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Languages:: English
Scripts:: Latin
Start Date:: 1851
End Date:: 1851
Date Range:: 19 Feb 1851
Era:: CE
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