Copies of Letters from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and to the Secret Committee
Copies of Letters from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and to the Secret Committee
Copies of Letters from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and to the Secret Committee
Date:
1810/1811
Description:
Abstract: A copy of a dispatch from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 6 October 1810. The dispatch concerns Malcolm’s views on the state of Persia. It includes discussion of the following: population and tribes; government; the army; state revenues; the character of the King [Shah] of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], his Court and his family; political relations between the United Kingdom and Persia, and British policy towards Persia.Included is a copy of a letter from Malcolm to the Secret Committee of the Court of the Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bombay [Mumbai] and dated 10 February 1811, enclosing a copy of a dispatch to the Secret Committee (which is not included in this item), which he states he had previously forwarded from Bagdad by Lieutenant MacDonald, who he goes on to state had been plundered within a few miles of Bagdad.Physical description: 1 item (47 folios)