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IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 369-405
- Record Id:
- 041-004061098
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100135717640.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145096900.0x000009
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 369-405
- Title:
- Herat and Persia Affairs
- Scope & Content:
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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 9 of 1838, dated 1 May 1838. The enclosures are dated 14 February-1 May 1838.
The papers chiefly comprise despatches of: William Hay Macnaghten, Secretary to the Governor-General of India; Captain Claude Martine Wade, Political Agent in Loodhiana [Ludhiana]; Captain Alexander Burnes, on a Mission to Cabool [Kabul]; and Lieutenant Eldred Pottinger in Herat.
The despatches concern the siege of Herat by Persia [Iran], notably covering and including the following:
- Letters for Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India, from Shah Kamran [Shāhzādah Kāmrān Durrānī], Ruler of Herat, and his Vizier [minister] Yar Mahomed Khan [Yār Muḥammad Khān], urgently soliciting the intervention of the British Government in their present dispute with Persia (ff 376-377)
- A detailed report by Lieutenant Eldred Pottinger in Herat relating his proceedings and those of Colonel Charles Stoddart, British Agent with the Persian Camp, acting as messengers between the Ruler of Herat and the Persian Prime Minister Hajee Meerza Akasee [Ḥājī Mīrzā Āqāsī] and the Shah of Persia, up to late February 1838, and noting that they have conveyed to the Shah’s camp outside Herat that the British Government is the ‘well-wisher’ of the Persians and Afghans but its policy is to prevent ‘foreign enemies’ from aggression on Afghan territory (ff 379-390)
- Macnaghten’s instructions to John McNeill, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia, regarding arrangements for conveying rapid intelligence to India during the ‘present highly critical emergency’, including the despatch of the ship Hugh Lindsay to the Persian Gulf for his use and that of the Persian Resident
- Macnaghten’s encouragement of McNeill to visit the Shah’s camp outside Herat with duplicates of the Governor-General’s replies to the Ruler and Vizier of Herat (which have also been sent via Burnes) and to mediate peace (ff 391-392)
- Copies of the Governor-General’s replies to Shah Kamran and Yar Mahomed, expressing friendship and sympathy, urging ‘undaunted courage’ on the ‘brave and intrepid people’ and informing them of McNeill’s advance to the Shah’s camp (ff 394-396).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000538963
040-000538968
041-004061098 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/126-258 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from India
IOR/L/PS/5/130 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM INDIA', Vol 49
IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 369-405 : Herat and Persia Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0005]/037-000538963[0005]/040-000538968[0009]/041-004061098
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (37 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100145096900.0x000009
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1838
- End Date:
- 1838
- Date Range:
- 1 May 1838
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- No. 9 of 1838
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)