Affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic

Title:

Affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic

Date:

1853/1853

Description:

Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 3 of 1853, dated 13 January 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 4 November 1852.The enclosure consists of a despatch from HM Consul General at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, addressed to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, forwarded under flying seal to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department. This despatch contains copies of two despatches from Rawlinson to HM Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople [Istanbul], Colonel Hugh Rose, dated 19 October and 3 November 1852 (the latter despatch includes enclosed correspondence between Rawlinson and HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia [Iran], Colonel Justin Sheil). These despatches concern the opposition of Namik Pasha [Mehmed Emin Namık Pasha, Governor or Viceroy of Baghdad] to the entry of Prince Abbas Mirza ['Abbās Mīrzā Mulk Ārā Qājār] into Turkish [Ottoman] territory; Namik Pasha's objection being overruled by the Ottoman Ambassador at Teheran [Tehran], and the latter sanctioning the Prince's residence in the Baghdad Pashalic [Pashalik, also spelled Pachalic in this item].Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 37. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

'Abbās Mīrzā Mulk Ārā Qājār
Governor of Baghdad

Geographic region:

Pashalik of Baghdad

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100129828648.0x000003_ar
81055/vdc_100129828648.0x000003_en
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 36-46
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 36-46

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