IOR/F/4/2388/127593

This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2388/127592. The main correspondents are: the Government of India; the Government of Bombay; Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran; and Agha Khan Mehlatee [Āqā Khān I]. It is the second in a series of four items on Agha Khan Mehlatee.

The item concerns:

• The initial demands of the Persian [Iranian] Government that Agha Khan be expelled from British India, and later demands that he be confined to the Bengal Presidency
• Agha Khan’s move from Scinde [Sindh] to Bombay [Mumbai] and then to Calcutta [Kolkata]
• Accusations from the Persian Government that Agha Khan, with the help of his brother, is fomenting unrest in Beloochistan [Balochistan]
• Payment of a stipend to Agha Khan from the Government of India, and payments for him to move to Calcutta
• An offer of the Persian Government to allow Agha Khan to return, provided that he returns via Bushire [Bushehr] and Shiraz, or Bagdad [Baghdad] and Kermanshah, rather than through Beloochistan and Kerman
• Agha Khan’s rejection of the terms under which he might return to Persia.

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following reference: ‘Draft no 22 of 1851’.