Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
- Date:
- 1856/1856
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, [Bombay Secret Letter] No. 1 dated 2 January 1856. The enclosures are dated 3-17 December 1855.The enclosures comprise three letters from Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, and one letter to Frere from Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sind.The papers cover the following matters:The alleged plan of Dost Mahomed [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] to attack Herat and to take it from Persia [Iran] and the arrival of Sirdar Munowur Dil Khan of Khandahar [Serdār Munawwar Dil Khān of Kandahar, also spelled Candahar in this item] in Kurrachee [Karachi] and his rumoured plan to visit Muscat to induce the Imaum [Imam] to make a diversion in the Gulf, thus preventing Persian forces being sent to HeratReports of Murree [Marī] raids in Boogtee [Bugṭī] territory, the number of Boogtees killed, and Jacob’s intention to meet with the Khan of Khelat [Kalat] to discuss this ‘inroad’.Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Raids (Military science)
Political intelligence - Geographic region:
- Sind
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 1A-9
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 1A-9