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IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 425-434
- Record Id:
- 041-003726051
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113507933.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129828648.0x000011
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 425-434
- Title:
- Affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic and Persia
- Scope & Content:
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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 18 of 1853, dated 10 March 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 10 March 1853.
The enclosure consists of a letter from HM Consul at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, sending under flying seals (to the address of the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department) copies of two despatches regarding affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik] and Persia [Iran].
The first despatch, from Rawlinson to HM Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople [Istanbul], Colonel Hugh Rose, encloses with comments a copy of a despatch from Rawlinson to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs concerning the effect of the recent change of Governor in Bagdad from Namik Pasha [Muḥammad Amīn Nāmiq Pāshā] to Reshid Pasha [Muḥammad Rashīd Pāshā Gözlüklü], with the latter’s first act being to address conciliatory letters to various ‘Arab Chiefs’ promising them amnesty for past ‘offences’ and generous treatment for the future. Rawlinson states that all the great tribal chiefs have come to Bagdad to give homage to the Governor.
The second despatch encloses copies of two despatches from Rawlinson to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding:
- The mother of Prince Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Mulk Ārā Qājār] (brother of the Shah) expressing ‘the strongest desire’ that her son should spend a few years in England and receive an English education, and Rawlinson’s views on the possible advantages which might result from this if Abbas Mirza were to succeed to the Persian throne, for the consideration of the Secretary of State
- Military arrangements and movements taking place in Bagdad ‘of a very serious character’, threatening hostilities between the Governments of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] and Persia.
- 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
040-000539322
041-003726051 - 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/5/476 : ‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 114
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 425-434 : Affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic and Persia - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0114]/040-000539322[0017]/041-003726051
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (9 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100129828648.0x000011
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1853
- End Date:
- 1853
- Date Range:
- 10 Mar 1853
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- No. 18 of 1853
- Arrangement:
- There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 426. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)