Turkish Arabia Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Turkish Arabia Affairs
- 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. 9 dated 16 January 1856. The enclosure is dated 22 December 1856.The item comprises a letter from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Baghdad, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, forwarding for the attention of the Governor in Council, Bombay, and the Government of India, a copy of two of his despatches to Charles Augustus Murray, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia [Iran], reporting on the following matters:The recurrent differences between the Persian Consul in Baghdad, and the [Ottoman] Turkish Governor and local authorities in Baghdad, notably regarding the treatment of pilgrims and the ‘tolls and other charges to which [they] are liable in their transit from the frontier to Nejjif [Najaf] and back again’ (f 142)Discussions between the Persian Consul and the Governor of Baghdad, and the respective frontier authorities, regarding a ‘Muradee branch’ of the (‘Turco-Kurdish’) Jaaf tribe which ‘on its descent from the mountains of Ardelan [Ardalan] directs it march on the pasture grounds of Zohab’(f 143r) which is a contested territory.Physical description: 1 item (12 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Tariffs
Border disputes
Frontiers
Pilgrims
Jaff (Tribe)
Governor of Baghdad
Persian Consul - Geographic region:
- Zohab
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000008_ar
81055/vdc_100129828683.0x000008_en
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 135-146
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 135-146