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25. Affairs in India and Elsewhere
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay's Secret Department to the East India Company's Secret Committee, Number 8 of 1841, dated 31 January 1841. The enclosures are dated 2 November 1840 to 1 February 1841.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence sent and received by the Government of Bombay, and copies of other papers such as minutes, memoranda and resolutions.The main correspondents are as follows: the Government of Bombay's Military Board; the Secretary to the Government of India; the Political Agent in Lower Scinde; and the Quarter Master General of the Bombay Army. Other correspondents include the Envoy and Minister at Cabool [Kabul], and the Political Agent in Upper Scinde.Many of the enclosures relate to military affairs in Scinde [Sindh, also spelled Sinde in the volume] and elsewhere in India.It also includes enclosures relating to the following:Rules established by the Rao of Cutch, stating that among those vessels trading between Sinde and Bombay, those which were driven into Mandavie [Mandvi] by adverse weather conditions were exempt from the payment of the duties previously exacted at that Port (enclosures relating to this include a Supplementto the Bombay Government Gazette, which contains a notification on this subject by the Government of Bombay's Political Department, which is printed in English, Persian, Gujarati, and Marathi)Ordnance and ammunition ordered for the Envoy and Minister at Cabool [Kabul]A carriage intended as a present from Queen Victoria to the Imaum [Imam] of MuscatAga Khan, Governor of Kerman, requesting the Government of Bombay to aid his agent in the collection of contributions from members of his tribe living in Bombay.In addition, this part includes:Three newsletters from the Secretary to the Government of India, containing précis of the latest intelligence received by the Governor General of India, from places including: Peshawur [Peshawar], Upper and Lower Scinde [Sindh], Afghanistan, Khiva, Burma, Nepal, China, Persia [Iran], and Bagdad [Baghdad]A sketch map of the route from Deesa to Lheree via Nuggur, Purkur, Wanga Bazaur, Roree and Shickarpoor [Shikarpur] by Lieutenant J Jacob of the Bombay Artillery (folio 468).Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-89, on folios 383-402. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure. Enclosures no. 80-82 listed in the abstract of contents are not included in the volume.
26. Affairs in the Punjaub
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- Abstract: Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 27 of 1846, dated 3 March 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs in the Punjaub [Punjab], including the following: the republication and dissemination of the announcement for the military victory of British forces over the Sheikh [Sikh Khāliṣah] Army; military reinforcements for Scinde [Sindh] sent by the Government of Bombay; ten lacs [lākh] (1,000,000) of rupees sent from the Government of Bengal to the Government of Scinde; and the use of the Bhangy Dak [Urdu: ḍāk bahangī] or native parcel post. There is a note in red ink on folio 228 indicating despatches 59-60 are missing, dated 29 October 1906. This item commences with an abstract of contents (folios 220-228). Correspondence from the Government of Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (86 folios)
27. Affairs in the Punjaub
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- Abstract: Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 23 of 1846, dated 15 February 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs in the Punjaub [Punjab], including the following: the publication, republication, and dissemination of the announcement for the military victory of British forces over the Sikh [Khāliṣah] Army; orders for reinforcements from Surat to Currachee [Karachi]; twenty lacs [lākh] (2,000,000) of rupees sent from the Government of Bengal to the Government of Scinde [Sindh]; and orders for the raising of a second corps of Scinde Irregular Horse. This item commences with an abstract of contents (folios 61-70).Physical description: 1 item (114 folios)
28. Affairs in Sinde and Elsewhere
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 15 of 1841, dated 28 February 1841. The enclosures are dated 14 November 1840 to 28 February 1841, and mostly consist of copies of correspondence sent and received by the Government of Bombay.The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby); the Secretary to the Government of India (Thomas Herbert Maddock); the Political Agent in Lower Sinde; the Quarter Master General of the Bombay Army; and the Bombay Military Board.Many of the enclosures concern military affairs in Sinde [Sindh, also spelled Scinde in the item], including the purchase of camels for the use of the troops in Upper Scinde, and the distribution of the Sinde Field Force under the command of Major-General G B Brooks.The enclosures also discuss matters including:Custom duties at the Port of Soomeeanee [Sonmiani, also spelled Sonmeeanee in this part]The arrival of a Bombay merchant at Hyderabad bearing letters to Meer Nusseer Khan, Ameer of Sinde [Amir of Sindh], labelled as being from Syud Mahomed Bakur Rushte Isfahnee, head Moollah [Mullah] of the Persian [Iranian] CourtThe establishment of depots at Poona [Pune] and Ahmedabad for the accommodation of the families of Native troops employed in service beyond the British FrontierThe despatch of a gun and ammunition as a present to the Dewan of Pahlunpoor [Palanpur, also spelled Pahlunpore in this item]The inconvenience experienced by boats entering the Harbour of Kurrachee [Karachi] being compelled to report their arrival to the officer commanding the vessel stationed off that Port, and the view of the Political Agent in Lower Sinde that such a measure was unnecessary for the prevention of the importation of slaves, as only boats which had come from the Coast of Arabia were ever likely to contain any slaves, and those boats were liable to be stopped on the high seasThe request of Meer Nusseer Khan, Amir of Sindh, for a passage in the first steam ship to Suez for a confidential attendant of his late brother Meer Noor Mahomed Khan, to perform the Hadj [Hajj] to Mecca on his behalfRecent events in Herat.This part also includes newsletters from the Government of India, reporting intelligence received from various places including: the North West Frontier, Gwalior, Mysore, and other areas of India, and Afghanistan, China, and Nipal (Nepal).Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-63, on folios 175-185. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure. Enclosures 61-63 are not included in the volume.
29. File 4330/1920 ‘Revenue Secretariat, Baghdad. MONTHY REPORTS OF POLITICAL OFFICERS IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF IRAQ. for the month of February, 1920.’
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- Abstract: The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of February 1920, forwarded by the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq], to the Under-Secretary of State for India.It includes:Reports from divisional political officers for the following divisions: Baghdad; Diyalah [Diyala]; Shamiyah [Al-Shamiya]; Hillah; Kut; Mosul; Sulaimania [Sulaymaniyah]; Kirkuk; and Arbil [Erbil] and Rawanduz.Reports from district assistant political officers for the following districts: Eastern Shamiyah; Kufah [Kufa]-Najaf; Western Shamiyah; Ramadi; Basrah [Basra]; Qurnah [Al-Qurna]; Amarah [Amara] Municipality; Northern District, Amarah; Mosul; Aqra [Aqrah or Akre]; Dohuk; Tel Afar; Zakho; and Koi Sanjaq [Koysinjaq or Koy Sanjaq] (this report covers 16 January to 15 February 1920).The reports are divided into sections on different subjects under headings such as: tribal [affairs]; law and order and condition of district; gendarmes; levies; police; agriculture; weather; revenue; municipal [affairs]; tapu [relating to land privately held by the title deed system]; waqf [relating to land allocated for religious or charitable endowment]; education; hospitals and dispensaries; tours of political officers and assistant political officers; frontier questions; irrigation and bunds [embankments]; and questions affecting military authorities.The volume also includes the following reports for the month of February 1920:Progress Report from the Municipal Commissioner, BasrahReport of Works in the Civil Works Division from the Officiating Executive Engineer, Civil WorksAdministration report of the Basrah Civil Jail from the Superintendent of the Civil JailReport of the First Class Magistrate, Basrah DivisionReport from the Civil Base Depot, BasrahDiary of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Amarah.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 191; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
30. File 4330/1920 Revenue Secretariat Baghdad ‘Monthly Reports of Political Officers of the Occupied Territories. March 1920’
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- Abstract: The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of March 1920, forwarded by the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, to the Under-Secretary of State for India.It includes:Reports from divisional political officers for the following divisions: Baghdad; Samarra; Diyalah [Diyala]; Diwaniyah; Shamiyah [Al-Shamiya]; Hillah; Basrah [Basra]; Kut; Mosul; Sulaimania [Sulaymaniyah]; Kirkuk; Arbil [Erbil] and Rawan [Rawanduz]Reports from district assistant political officers for the following districts: Eastern Shamiyah; Western Shamiyah; Kufah [Kufa]-Najaf; Basrah; Qurnah [Al-Qurna]; Amarah [Amara] Municipality; Northern District, Amarah; Qalat-Sikar [Qalat Sukkar]; Suq Al Shuyukh [Suq Al-Shoyokh] and Hammar; Shatrah [Al-Shatrah]; Nasiriyah; Zakho; Dohuk; Tel Afar; Aqra [Aqrah or Akre]; and Koi Sanjaq [Koysinjaq or Koy Sanjaq].The reports are divided into sections on different subjects under headings such as: tribal [affairs]; law and order and condition of district; gendarmes; levies; police; agriculture; weather; revenue; municipal [affairs]; tapu [relating to land privately held by the title deed system]; waqf [relating to land allocated for religious or charitable endowment]; education; hospitals and dispensaries; tours of political officers and assistant political officers; frontier questions; irrigation and bunds [embankments]; and questions affecting military authorities.The report from the Military Governor and Political Officer, Baghdad, includes appended reports of the Acting Medical Officer of Health, Baghdad, and the Land Settlement Officer, Baghdad, for the month of March 1920.The report by the Assistant Political Officer (Town), Amarah, is followed by the diary of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Amarah, for the Month of March 1920.The reports from the Assistant Political Officers for Basrah and Qurnah are enclosed in the report of the Military Governor and Political Officer, Basrah, along with reports for the month of March from the following:The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Basrah (this report covers February and March)The Municipal Commissioner, BasrahThe Officiating Executive Engineer, Civil Works DivisionThe First Class Magistrate, BasrahThe Civil Transport Officer, BasrahThe Superintendent, Civil Jail, BasrahThe Civil Base Depot, Basrah.The volume includes an index to monthly reports of Political Officers for March 1920 on folio 6; however, there are not separate reports included in the volume for every division and district listed.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 221; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Multiple intermittent additional foliation sequences are also present.
31. Ext 5821/43 'General Hurley's mission to Persia and China'
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- Abstract: This file contains papers that discuss the visit by American President Roosevelt, and General Patrick Jay Hurley to Afghanistan, Persia, as part of a broader trip to China and the 'Eastern Theatre' of the Second World War. The papers primarily consist of British intelligence reports on the exchanges of these senior American figures, and their lower ranking colleagues with their counterparts in Afghanistan. Some papers detail these discussions with regards to the potential for oil concessions and arms deals. Finally, a few papers discuss Russian intentions in central Asia and possible Russian intentions in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 42; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
32. Letters from Tehran, Turkish Arabia, and the Persian Gulf
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 113 of 1842, dated 15 October 1842.The enclosures are dated 16 August to 10 September 1842, and consist of copies of the following correspondence:Copies of despatches from HM Chargé d’affaires at Tehran (Lieutenant Colonel Justin Sheil) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Earl of Aberdeen) concerning Persia [Iran], Afghanistan and Herat, including reports of the build-up of Turkish [Ottoman] troops on the Turkish border with Persia. The despatches include: enclosed letters from correspondents including Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Īlchī Kabīr], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs; a copy of a firman [order or edict] from the Khan of Khiva; and a letter in French from the French Consul General at BaghdadLetters from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Iraq] (Lieutenant Colonel Robert Taylor) to the Secretary to the Government of India, forwarding copies of correspondence, mainly between Taylor and Sheil, relating to impending hostilities between Turkey [the Ottoman Empire] and PersiaLetters from the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson) to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], forwarding copies of correspondence regarding: the proposed withdrawal of the Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire [Bushehr]; the circumstances behind the departure of Lootf Ally Khan [Luṭf ‘Alī Khān Lārī], the Commander of the Lar Garrison of Karrack (also spelled Kharg), from Karrack; and news reported from Bahrein [Bahrain] by Mohamed Ali [Muḥammad ‘Alī], Agent at Bahrein, and from Shiraz by Mirza Reeza [Mīrzā Rezā], Agent at Shiraz.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-10, on folios 308-309. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
33. Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp at Deharagan, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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- Abstract: A letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp at Deharagan [Mehraban?], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 28 October 1826, which was received from the Foreign Office on 1 January 1827. The letter reports developments at the Court of the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] concerning the war between Persia and Russia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], including:Macdonald Kinneir’s discussions with the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Aboul Hussan Khan [Mirza Abu'l-Hasan Khan Shirazi], and the Moatumud oo Dowleh, Meerza Abdoul Wahab [Mirza Abdul Wahab Nishat Isfahani, Mu’tamid al-Dawlah] for a possible peace proposal to be made to RussiaThe Shah’s provision of funding to the armed forces of the Prince Royal, Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār]The Shah’s request for Macdonald Kinneir to spend the winter at Tabreez [Tabriz]The poor quality of Persian commanding officers and the decline and deficiency of Abbas Meerza’s armed forcesThe unsuitability of the Persian system of government for waging warThe conflicting ‘war’ and ‘peace’ factions advising the Shah, namely the roles of the Asuf oo Dowleh [Allhyar Khan Qajar Davallu, Asif al-Dawlah] and the Kaim Mukam, Meerza Aboul Cossim [Mirza Abu'l-Qasim Farahani, Qa'im Maqam] from the war faction and Meerza Abdoul Wahab and Meerza Aboul Hussan Khan from the peace factionMilitary developments, including a proposed prisoner exchange by the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov].The letter also originally enclosed a letter and its translation from Meerza Aboul Hussan Khan to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/150).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
34. Bagdad Pachalic Affairs
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- 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, Number 30 of 1850, dated 23 May 1850. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 April 1850.The enclosure consists of a letter from the Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, forwarding under flying seal a despatch to the address of the Secretary to the Government of India, forwarding a copy of a despatch addressed by Kemball to HM Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], Sir Stratford Canning.The despatch concerns military affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik], including:The movement of a detachment from Kirkook [Kirkuk] to Sulimanieh [As Sulaymaniyah], where it entered the town without opposition, in response to the ‘critical position’ of Ismail Pasha [Ismā‘īl Pāshā] becoming knownThe movement of Namik Pasha [Muḥammad Amīn Nāmiq Pāshā], with all the troops at his disposal, to Kirkook, and his successful interception and defeat of the first party of Kurdish levies who had escaped their barracksA lack of definite information about the movements or intentions of the Kurdish nobles, who remain encamped in the districtsNews of the defection of the Kurdish regiments and the withdrawal of the Turkish [Ottoman] garrison to form the expedition to Sulimanieh having led to an uprising by the Maadan Arabs [Maʻdān or Marsh Arabs] in the Hindieah [Hindiyah] districts.Physical description: 1 item (7 folios)
35. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 30 of 1843, dated 30 April 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-11 and are dated 14 February to 30 April 1843, and concern affairs in the Persian Gulf and Persia [Iran].Enclosure Nos. 3-10 consist of correspondence regarding:The coal depot of Karrack [Kharg Island, also spelled Kharrack in this item]The conduct of Hajee Ahmed [Hājī Aḥmad], the Arabic ‘Moonshee’ [Munshi] of the Persian Gulf Residency in relation to Jehan Loz Mirza [Jahānsūz Mīrzā], who arrived at Kharrack in July 1842 ‘in the habit and character of a dervish’, claiming to be the son of the late Shah of Persia, Futteh Allee [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār], and the uncle of the present ShahA copy of a letter (not included in this item) from the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson, providing an explanation for the letter of remonstrance addressed by him to Abdoola bin Soonyan [‘Abdullāh bin Thunyān bin Ibrāhīm Āl Sa‘ūd, also spelled bin Sooneyan and bin Senyan in this item] the de facto ruler of Nedjd [Najd], described as a ‘piractical chief’ in the Persian GulfA report on the state of affairs at Muscat (also spelled Muskat in this item) from the Native Agent at Muscat, Rubil bin Uslan [Khwāji Rūbin bin Aṣlān], up to 20 March 1843The reported murder of Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, who had been confined in the Fort at Bokhara [Bukhara] on the 18 or 19 June 1842.This correspondence is mainly between the following: the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby; the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General, James Thomason.Enclosure No. 11 is a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Justin Sheil, to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General, forwarding copies of his despatches to HM Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Aberdeen, regarding Persian affairs, including:An apology from the Persian Consul in Bagdad [Baghdad] for ‘interfering’ with a foot messenger from the British MissionA letter received from Meshed [Mashhad] reporting: an ‘interview’ held at Jam between Meerza Moossa Khan [Mīrzā Mūsā Khān Farāhānī], the guardian of the shrine of Meshed, and Yar Mahomed Khan [Yār Muḥammad Khān, Minister-regent of Herat], with the latter complaining that he had derived little advantage from his relations with Persia; the death of the ‘Chief’ [Khan] of Khiva, Allah Koolee Khan [Allāh Qulī Bahādur Khān], and the succession of his son Reheem Koolee Khan [Muḥammad Raḥim Qulī Khān]; and the frontier of Persia in the direction of Khiva seeming to be ‘in tranquillity’The Resident in the Persian Gulf requesting instructions in relation to ‘a case of piracy, if it can be so termed’ in the Persian Gulf, in which a Persian vessel was about to sail with its cargo from the Port of Nabend, when it was attacked and plundered by the Governor of Nabend [Damagheh-ye Nay Band]Information from the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding the location and recent history of the town of Mohemmera [Khorramshahr, also spelled Mohumra in this item], including a copy of a sketch map by Mr Litchfield, the officer in command of the schooner Emily, of what he recollects to be the position of Mohumra (f 167), dated 3 January 1843Relations between Persia and Turkey [the Ottoman Empire], including: the Persian Government receiving intelligence from the Governor of Kermanshah that the Governor of Suleimanieh [Sulaymaniyah], Ahmed Pasha [Aḥmad Pāshā], had announced his intention of approaching the Persian frontier in the vicinity of Zohab [Sarpol-e Zahab] with a military force; the Governor of Bagdad attacking the city of Kerbela [Karbala], apparently because of the ‘refractory’ state of the tribes in possession of the city, which has caused the Shah ‘increased irritation and excitement’ as Kerbela contains the sepulchres of ‘the Sheah branch of the Mahommedan faith’ [the Shia branch of Islam], and a large proportion of the population of the city is apparently Persian.The despatches include enclosed letters from: Sheil; the British Resident at Bagdad, Colonel Robert Taylor; the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hossan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shirāzī, Īlchī-yi Kabīr]; Hajee Meerza Aghashee [Ḥājī Mīrzā (ʿAbbās Īravānī) Āqāsī, Persian Prime Minister or Grand Vizier]; the Governor of Kermanshah, Mohib Ali Khan [Muḥibb ʿAlī Khān]; the Walee [Wali or Governor] of Ardelan [Ardalan]; and the Persian Consul at Bagdad.Physical description: 1 item (71 folios)
36. Military Affairs in Scinde and Beloochistan and Elsewhere in Asia
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- 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 35 of 1842, dated 1 April 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-84 and are dated 10 December 1841 to 31 March 1842. They mainly consist of correspondence, and also include some minutes by the Governor of Bombay and resolutions of the Government of Bombay. The enclosures mostly concern military affairs in Scinde [Sindh, also spelled Sinde in this item] and Beloochistan [Balochistan], including:Troop movements, such as the advance of troops from Sonmeeanee [Sonmiani] to Candahar [Kandahar]The construction of travellers' bungalows at Kurrachee [Karachi], Gharra [Gharo, also spelled Gorrah in this item], and Tatta [Thatta]The remission of eight lacs of rupees required by the Political Agent in Scinde and Beloochistan to meet the needs of the troops in Lower ScindeThe transport of a train of mountain artillery for service in ScindeMedical officers serving in, or proceeding to, Scinde.The principal correspondents are as follows: the Political Agent in Scinde and Beloochistan; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay; the Secretary to the Government of India; the Military Board, Bombay; the Accountant General of Bombay; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; and the Quarter Master General of the Army.This item also includes copies of news letters from the Secretary to the Government of India, consisting of précises of intelligence on the state of affairs in various places, including: Candahar and elsewhere in Afghanistan; Upper and Lower Scinde; Quetta; Baroda [Vadodara] and elsewhere in India; Burmah [Burma]; Nepal; and China.Physical description: The copies of enclosures are numbered 3-84. There is a note on folio 438 stating: 'The Abstract of Contents could not be prepared for want of time'.