Afghanistan Affairs, Muscat Affairs, and Memorandum of Intelligence ('Newsletter')
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Afghanistan Affairs, Muscat Affairs, and Memorandum of Intelligence ('Newsletter')
- Date:
- 1839/1839
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises three separate documents, as follows:General Orders issued by Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Indus (published in the London Gazette30 August 1839), congratulating the army and its commanders on the capture of Candahar [Kandahar] and detailing the ceremony to take place on the occasion of HM Shah Shoojah-ool-Moolk [Shāh Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni] taking possession of his throne (ff 264-267)Substance of two letters, 31 May-28 June 1839, from the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat informing Sir James Rivett Carnac, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], that he has concluded a treaty with the British Government and requesting guidance on the course of action he should take regarding the army of Mahomed Ali Pacha [Muḥammad ‘Alī Pasha al-Mas‘ūd bin Āghā, Governor of Egypt] which has appeared ‘in the Arab Country’ (ff 268-270)Memorandum of Intelligence, dated 10 June 1839, covering events in: Lahore; Peshwar [Peshawar]; Cabool [Kabul]; Mooltan [Multan]; the Army of the Indus in Candahar [Kandahar], Afghanistan (particularly concerning finances); Upper Scinde [Sindh]; Gwalior; Joudhpore [Jodpur]; Nipal [Nepal]; and Items of General Intelligence (ff 271-278).Physical description: 1 item (17 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Political intelligence
First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842)
Military intelligence
Treaties
Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni
Muḥammad ‘Alī Pasha al-Mas‘ūd bin Āghā - Geographic region:
- Candahar
Muscat - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100126288479.0x000011_ar
81055/vdc_100126288479.0x000011_en
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 262-278
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 262-278