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IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 24-30
- Record Id:
- 041-003797583
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100118914565.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 24-30
- Title:
- Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
- Scope & Content:
-
This item comprises an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 4 dated 2 January 1856. The enclosure is dated 22 December 1855.
The papers comprise documents forwarded by Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, as follows:
- An extract of a letter from the Judicial Deputy Magistrate to the Collector, Upper Sind, reporting that: Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] has arrived at Kandahar with a force, obliged the Governor of Kandahar to vacate the town with his men, and taken possession of Kandahar, replacing all the amildars [revenue collectors] with his own; that the Governor’s eldest son who was approaching with a force has also fled on hearing of Dost Mahomed’s success; and that Dost Mahomed apparently intends to proceed to Herat ‘at the close of the season’ (f 25)
- Copies of letters written by the wakeel [vakil] of the Khan of Kelat [Kalat] and by Ameer [Emir] Dost Mahomed Khan (which had been forwarded by Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sind), regarding the arrival of Dost Mahomed Khan at Kandahar.
- 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
040-000539332
041-003797583 - 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/5/486 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 124
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 24-30 : Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0124]/040-000539332[0003]/041-003797583
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (7 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000003
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1856
- End Date:
- 1856
- Date Range:
- 2 Jan 1856
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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