Translations of Letters from the Kaim Mukam to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Date:
1828/1828
Description:
Abstract: Translations of three letters from the Kaim Mukam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā’im-Maqām] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. The letters concern the negotiation of the peace treaty to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], detailing:The assent of the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to the articles of the proposed treatyThe Shah’s orders for the Prince Royal, Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia], to be present at the signature of the treaty and for it to be signed in his nameThat ‘our people’ in Tehraun [Tehran] have ‘misrepresented matters to the Shah’The payment of reparations to Russia to ensure the evacuation of Persian territory occupied by Russia [the Province of Azerbaijan].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in enclosure No. 11, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)