'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1865'

Title:

'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1865'

Date:

1864/1865

Description:

Abstract: Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1865. The letters are dated December 1864-December 1865. The abstracts each have one of the following titles:Abstracts of Letters received from IndiaAbstracts of Secret Letters received from IndiaAbstracts of Military Letters received from IndiaAbstracts of Letters received from the Resident at Aden/Political Resident at AdenAbstracts of Secret Letters received from the Resident at Aden/Political Resident at AdenAbstracts of Letters received from the Political Resident at ZanzibarAbstracts of Letters received from the Governor of the Straits Settlements.Each abstract contains summaries of one or more letters from the specified source, each with a title giving the subject of the letter. Letters from India are divided within each abstract by the branch or department of the Government of India they originated from. The correspondence covers issues including:Land issues, including: issues of land tenure and tenant rights; land settlement operations; forestry; mining; the sale of ‘waste lands’; and plantations of cash crops including cotton and teaPay, pensions, recruitment, and other personnel issues in the Indian Civil and Military establishmentsPublic works, including railways, roads, reservoirs, land reclamation, canals, harbours and harbour defences, hospitals, prisons, and barracksRevenue and expenditureIssues concerning Princely States, including land cessions for railways; issues of succession; pensions; and an attempted plot against the Gaekwar Maharaja of Guzerat [Gujarat]Military operations, in particular an attack on Bootan [Bhutan] leading to the occupation of the Dooars [Duars, mountain passes]; and also operations against Munneepooree [Manipuri] insurgents at Luckeepore [Lakhipur] and ‘outlaws’ in Kattywar [Kathiawar]Other military affairs, including claims of military units for rewards for service during the ‘Mutiny’ [Indian Uprising of 1857]; the health of troops; and the movement, organisation, supply, and reduction of military unitsThe Indo-European Telegraph linking India to Britain via Persia [Iran] and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, in particular breakages and repairs of telegraph linesPostal services between India and the Persian GulfEducationBankingJudicial affairsFood shortagesEmigration from India to French colonies and St Croix [Danish West Indies]Frontier affairs, including the closure of the Kohat Pass following conflict among the Afreedees [Afrīdī tribe]Civil conflict in Afghanistan [also spelled Affghanistan], including the flight of chiefs from Cabul [Kabul] to India and the question of British policy towards refugee chiefsThe activities of rival colonial powers, including French activity in East Africa, the Comoro Islands [Comoros], and the Gulf of Siam; proposed exchanges of territory in India with France; and Russian activity in Bokhara [Bukhara]Affairs in Burmah [Burma/Myanmar], including the settlement of the border with Siam [Thailand] in Tenasserim [Tanintharyi] and exploration of the Salween riverAffairs in and around Aden Settlement, including: relations with neighbouring states, in particular the Foodlee [Faḍlī Sultanate] and Lahej [Laḥij Sultanate]; the security of roads leading to Aden and the proposed creation of a mounted police force; the garrison and defences of Aden; a cholera outbreak and shortage of grainConflict between the Sultan of Muscat [Thwaynī bin Sa’īd Āl Bū Saʿīd] and the Wahabees [Waḥḥabī movement], and the question of maintaining a British naval force in the Persian GulfAffairs in East Africa, including the slave trade in Zanzibar and the Red Sea and the imprisonment of British and other nationals by Emperor Theodorus [Tewodros II] of Abyssinia [Ethiopia]Affairs in and around the Straits Settlements, including attacks on British subjects in Perak and Panai.The primary correspondents are:The Viceroy and Governor-General of IndiaThe Government of IndiaThe Resident in AdenThe Resident in Zanzibar.The abstracts were printed and bound in London, and each one includes the following colophon: ‘LONDON: Printed by GEORGE E. EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.’Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 458; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back coversPagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

الشؤون العسكرية
تجارة الرقيق
البنية التحتية للنقل
الإنفاق
الشؤون الخارجية
السياسة الداخلية
إدارة المستعمرات
الأراضي

Geographic region:

India
Bootan
Aden
Abyssinia

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000d6_ar
81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000d6_en
IOR/L/PS/20/CA5
IOR/L/PS/20/CA5

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