Turkish Arabia and Aden Affairs

Title:

Turkish Arabia and Aden Affairs

Date:

1840/1840

Description:

Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 28 of 1840, dated 23 May 1840. The enclosures are numbered 1-128 and are dated 4 March -23 May 1840. A note in black ink states that ‘Enclosure numbers to Secret Letter from Bombay No. 28, dated 23rd May 1840, are missing from the Collection below, viz:- 3-4, 6, 8, 10-11, 38, 57 & 118’.The enclosures 13-33 contain correspondence on the Euphrates flotilla led by Lieutenant Lynch, as well as arrangements for the transport of boiler makers from the Gulf in the Clive. Also discussed are the arrangements for the detention of Hyder Khan [Ḥaydar Khān] (son of Sirdar Dostallah Khan [Sirdār Dūst Allāh Khān]) Governor of Ghuznee [Ghazni] in Afghanistan. Enclosures 123-126 discuss arrangments for the stationing of an armed vessel in the Red Sea during the monsoon and military supplies from Aden.Correspondents include: the Secret Committee; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; the Officer Commanding the Force at Aden; and the Political Agent at Aden. Other enclosures (1-12, 47-123 except the missing enclosures noted above) contain correspondence on matters relating to Scinde [Sindh].Physical description: 1 item (526 folios)

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842)
Diplomacy

Geographic region:

Aden
Ghuznee
Turkish Arabia

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100142611306.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100142611306.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/5/384, ff 199-725
IOR/L/PS/5/384, ff 199-725

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