Supply of tents to Tehran, communications in India, and the trade in enslaved persons in Oman

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Title:
Supply of tents to Tehran, communications in India, and the trade in enslaved persons in Oman
Date:
1852/1852
Description:
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-18 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 16 June 1851-17 January 1852.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to four separate subjects.Folios 85-97 cover a complaint from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran] that tents supplied to the British Mission at Tehran by the Government of Bombay in 1849 have proven to be of inferior quality to previous batches, and an enquiry into the tendering process and specifications of the tents.Folios 98-99 consist of an extract from a resolution by the East India Company Secret Committee relating to the establishment of steam navigation on the Indus and Punjab rivers for the purposes of communication.Folios 100-103 cover attempts to reduce the volume of communications between departments of the Government of India.Folios 104-113 cover the trade in enslaved persons within the dominions of the Imam of Muscat and Oman (including Zanzibar), and efforts against it by both the Imam and the British.The primary correspondents are: the Envoy in Tehran; the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the Secret Committee; and the British Consul, Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (33 folios)
Language:
English
Type:
Archival item
Type (Narrower):
Other Texts
Type (Broader):
Text
Subject:
River navigation
Slave trade
Equipment
Administration
Geographic region:
Tehran
India
Zanzibar
Indus River
Rights:
رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
Identifier:
81055/vdc_100132261712.0x000011_ar
81055/vdc_100132261712.0x000011_en
IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 81-113
IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 81-113
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