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 enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 6 dated 15 January 1856. The enclosures are dated 8 December 1855-11 January 1856.The primary correspondents are Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh]; the Governor and President in Council, Bombay; and the Secretary to the Government, Bombay.The papers cover the following matters:The request of a nephew of Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] who is at Kurrachee [Karachi], for British assistance, as an ally, in obtaining accommodation on a steamer to Bombay and then to Aden, en route to MeccaNews concerning the son of the Governor of Candahar [Kandahar] who refused the summons of Dost Mahomed Khan and went to Seeistan [Sistan] and then Chaka [Chakah?] and intends to ‘go to Hindoostan’ [Hindustan, the Persian name for the Indian subcontinent] (f 39)The question of whether to authorise Meer Alem Khan [Mīr ‘Ālim Khān], son of Rahm dil Khan [Raḥīm Dil Khān], who left Kandahar and is in Dadur [Dhadar, also known as Dadhar, Balochistan], to carry out his intention of going to JacobabadThe question of whether to authorise the entry of Sirdar Munwar Dil Khan [Serdār Munawwar Dil Khān], a relative of Sirdar Rahim Dil Khan [Serdār Raḥīm Dil Khān], to enter British territory, in view of the lately renewed ‘friendship’ between Dost Mahomed Khan and the British Government in IndiaReports of a clash in the Marree [Mari] Hills between members of the Murree [Marī] and Boogtee [Bugṭī] tribes resulting in the defeat of the former.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Political refugees
Raids (Military science) - Geographic region:
- Sind
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000005_ar
81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000005_en
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 36-46
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 36-46