Report of the Kandahar Mission

Title:

Report of the Kandahar Mission

Creator:

Author: Harry Burnett Lumsden

Date:

1858/1859

Description:

Abstract: Enclosure nos. 3-6 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures consist of copies of papers relating to the Kandahar Mission, a British diplomatic mission to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1857-58. Most of the item consists of a detailed report from the head of the mission, Major Harry Burnett Lumsden, which covers the political and military situation in Afghanistan, and observations on culture, geography and population. Folio 144 includes a sketch of a fortified building encountered on the mission’s journey between Kohant [Kohat] and Cabul [Kabul]. Folios 195-210 consist of a vocabulary of the Kaffir [Nuristani] language. Folio 287 consists of a sketch map of Kaffiristan [Nuristan]. Folio 288 contains both a plan and a sketch of the Fort of Kilat-i-Chilze [Qalat-e Gilzay]. The enclosures also contain correspondence from the Commissioner, Peshawur [Peshawar], and the Chief Commissioner, Punjab, reacting to the report and discussing British policy towards Afghanistan in the wake of the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57 and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.Physical description: 1 item (217 folios)

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Nuristani languages
Diplomacy
Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857)
Reports

Geographic region:

Kaffiristan
Kandahar

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100126288473.0x000004_ar
81055/vdc_100126288473.0x000004_en
IOR/L/PS/5/253, ff 76-292
IOR/L/PS/5/253, ff 76-292

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