A Precis of Official Intelligence on the Affairs of Affghanistan, Sinde and Beloochistan
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- A Precis of Official Intelligence on the Affairs of Affghanistan, Sinde and Beloochistan
- Date:
- 1842/1842
- Description:
- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, No. 97 of 1842, and contains material relating to the following:The boundary dispute between Meer Ali Moorad Khan [Mīr ‘Alī Murād Khān Tālpūr] and Meer Nusseer Khan [Mīr Nāṣir Khān Tālpūr] of Khyrpore [Khairpur]The desire of Maharaja Sher Singh to be informed of the position of British troopsThe determination of Mahomed Suddeeg Atchukzee [Muḥammad Sādiq Khān Achakza‘ī] to oppose the encroachment of British troopsThe hesitation of Mir Sher Mahomed [Mīr Shīr Muḥammad Khān Tālpūr] of Meerpore [Mirpur] in rendering tribute to the BritishThe affliction of Meer Nusseer Khan of Khyrpore with cholera and his recoveryThe attempt by Meer Roostum Khan [Mīr Rustam ‘Alī Khān Tālpūr] to dissuade Meer Ali Moorad Khan from going to war against Meer Nusseer KhanThe capture of Syed Mahomed Shureef [Sayyid Muḥammad Sharīf] by Major James OutramThe death of Mir Sher Mahomed Khan at KhyrporeThe preparations by Deen Mahomed Murree [Dīn Muḥammad Marrī] to attack the Khettrans [Khetrans]The British approach to Meer Meer Mahomed [Mīr Mīr Muḥammad Khān Tālpūr] to act as arbitrator between his brothers, and the expressions of support from Meer Nusseer Khan and Mir Hoossein Ali Khan [Mīr Ḥusayn ‘Alī Khān Tālpūr]The Khan of Kelat’s [Kalat] orders to Esah Khan the Mengul Sirdar [Sardār ‘Īsá Khān Mangal] to proceed in the direction of Nooshkie [Nushki] and Shoorawack [Shorabak], to ‘raise’ the Brahooee [Barāhu‘ī] Tribe and take them back to KelatThe execution of Gholam Mahomed Khan [Ghulām Muḥammad Khān], Moollah Rusheed [Mullā Rashīd], Naib Ameen [Nā’ib Amīn], Naib Shureef [Nā’ib Sharīf], and Meerza Mahomed Hussain [Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥusayn] on the orders of Mahomed Ukhbar [Muḥammad Akbar Khān Bārakzāy] at Cabool [Kabul], for conspiring with Mahomed Zuman Khan [Nawwāb Muḥammad Zamān Khān Bārakzāy] to kill the Afghan King [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy]The dispute between Meer Nusseer Khan and his nephew Meer Hoossein Ali Khan, and the latter’s determination to leave the fort at HyderabadThe news of British troops being driven out of Kandahar, and Meer Nusseer Khan’s contacts with the Ameers [Amīrs] of Upper Sinde [Sindh] to form an ‘anti-British league’A request from the Law Commissioner of India to the surgeon James Burnes to hand over any papers belonging to his late brother Sir Alexander BurnesA request from the Government of Bombay for information on the ‘quality of the rain which has fallen’ in Sinde, whether the ‘country is reported to be healthy’, and the ‘state of the Indus as far as relates to facility of navigation in this season’.The volume also includes a ‘Rough Sketch Shewing the Valley of the Yajhi Forts and the Eastern Ridge’, signed by Captain J W Robertson, Field Engineer (f 142).Physical description: 1 item (146 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Alexander Burnes
King of Afghanistan - Geographic region:
- Sinde
Affghanistan - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100152132026.0x000007_ar
81055/vdc_100152132026.0x000007_en
IOR/L/PS/5/412, ff 2-147
IOR/L/PS/5/412, ff 2-147