Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
- Date:
- 1856/1856
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 4 dated 2 January 1856. The enclosure is dated 22 December 1855.The papers comprise documents forwarded by Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, as follows:An extract of a letter from the Judicial Deputy Magistrate to the Collector, Upper Sind, reporting that: Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] has arrived at Kandahar with a force, obliged the Governor of Kandahar to vacate the town with his men, and taken possession of Kandahar, replacing all the amildars [revenue collectors] with his own; that the Governor’s eldest son who was approaching with a force has also fled on hearing of Dost Mahomed’s success; and that Dost Mahomed apparently intends to proceed to Herat ‘at the close of the season’ (f 25)Copies of letters written by the wakeel [vakil] of the Khan of Kelat [Kalat] and by Ameer [Emir] Dost Mahomed Khan (which had been forwarded by Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sind), regarding the arrival of Dost Mahomed Khan at Kandahar.Physical description: 1 item (7 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Military occupation
- Geographic region:
- Kandahar
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000003_ar
81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000003_en
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 24-30
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 24-30