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 item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 31 of 1856, dated 28 April 1856. The enclosures are dated 16-23 April 1856.The item consists of translations of two letters (ff 124-126) addressed by Mahomed Yusoof [Muḥammad Yūsuf, also spelled Yussuff in this item], Ruler of Herat, to the British Government. In the letters Mahomed Yusoof: requests British assistance against the attack on Herat by the Persian [Iranian] Army; declares himself and all the Afghan and Persian inhabitants of Herat to be ‘servants of the British Government’ (f 126); and states that he has hoisted the British flag in the town.Also included in the item are: a covering letter from Captain William Lockyer Merewether, Acting Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sind [Sindh] who, having received them from a messenger sent by the Khan of Kelat’s [Kalat] minister, forwards them to Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, Acting Commissioner in Sind; the covering letter by Jacob who forwards them to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay; and a Resolution of the Board, Bombay, for the letters to be forwarded to the Government of India.Jacob informs the Government of Bombay that he has sent a reply indicating the British Government ‘has at present no intention of interfering with proceedings at Herat’ (f 122).Physical description: 1 item (8 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Foreign aid
- Geographic region:
- Herat
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100157091557.0x000006_ar
81055/vdc_100157091557.0x000006_en
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 121-128
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 121-128