Herat Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Herat Affairs
- Date:
- 1856/1856
- Description:
- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 46 of 1856, dated 8 October 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 2 to 11 September 1856.They consist of copies of two despatches from the Acting Commissioner in Sinde [Sindh], Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, to the Secretary to the Government of India, enclosing copies of letters relating to the advance of the Persian [Iranian] force at Herat. The enclosed letters are from the Acting Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sinde, and translations of Persian letters from Faiz Ahmed Baabe [Fayz̤ Aḥmad Bābī] and Mahomed Khan [Muḥammad Khān] to the Wukkeel [Vakil] of the Khan of Kelat [Kalat], Moolla Ahmed [Mullā Aḥmad].Physical description: 1 item (8 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Siege of Herat (1856)
- Geographic region:
- Emirate of Herat
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100152608251.0x000012_ar
81055/vdc_100152608251.0x000012_en
IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 3-10
IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 3-10