Reports from the Commissioner in Sind
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Reports from the Commissioner in Sind
- Date:
- 1853/1906
- Description:
- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 1 of 1853, dated 3 January 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-22. There is a note on folio 1 dated 2 November 1906 stating that numbers 3-9 are missing. The missing enclosures numbered 3-9 are dated 16 October 1852 to 18 December 1852, and enclosures 10-22 are dated 30 March 1852 to 28 December 1852.The missing enclosures 3-9 listed in the abstract of contents consist of correspondence (with the Commissioner in Sind [Sindh] and the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India) and minutes of the Government of Bombay, relating to rewards for certain individuals for their services in the enquiry against Meer Ali Morad [Mīr ʿAlī Murād Khān Tālpūr, Khan of Khairpur].Enclosures 10-22 consist of correspondence, and minutes of the Governor of Bombay, relating to reports by the Commissioner in Sind of the following:The belief of the Commissioner in Sind that an individual named Goolam Moheedeen Khan [Ghulām Muhyī al-Din Khān], who had presented himself to Major John Jacob, Political Superintendent on the Frontier, Upper Sind, as a Wakeel [Vakil] from Kandahar [also spelled Candahar in this item], had been passing himself off as an agent of the British Government at CandaharAn attack by the Murrees [Marri] on the town of Poolajee [Phuleji or Foliji] in the territory of the Khan of Khelat [Kalat]American vessels visiting the port of Guarder [Gwadar] on the Mukran Coast [Makran Coast] for the purpose of tradeThe Shah of Persia [Iran] reportedly offering a frontier district to the Candahar Government on certain conditions.The main correspondents are the following: the Commissioner in Sind; the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay; and HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-22, on folios 2-4. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Trade (practice)
Shah of Persia - Geographic region:
- Candahar
Guarder
Poolajee - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100129828648.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100129828648.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 1A-27
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 1A-27