Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 7 dated 16 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 25 December 1856-14 January 1857.The primary correspondents are Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, Commanding the Persian Expeditionary Force; Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident, Aden; and the Government of Bombay. Also included are several Resolutions and Minutes of the Board, the Governor and President in Council, and individual members in Council.The papers chiefly relate to the appointment of Outram’s personal staff for the duration of the campaign in Persia [Iran], notably:The appointment of Reverend George Percy Badger as Assistant Chaplain and Arabic InterpreterOutram’s requests for Lieutenant W H F Sykes, 3rd Regiment Bombay Light Cavalry (stationed in England) and, pending Sykes’s arrival, Captain Charles Hervey, 2nd Regiment European Light Infantry, to be appointed Aide de Camp and Private SecretaryThe proposed salaries for the Private Secretary and Reverend Badger and their assistantsThe proposed withdrawal from Aden of Lieutenant Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident, for service with Outram in the Persian Gulf, including: the objections of Brigadier Coghlan who asserts that Playfair’s work and duties in Aden are indispensable and that there is no suitably qualified substitute for his Assistant; Playfair’s letter arguing against Coghlan and pleading his case to join Outram (ff 109-110); discussions between the members in Council concerning Playfair and Coghlan’s positions, and their ultimate sanctioning of Coghlan’s viewsUncertainty expressed by the Military Auditor General regarding the proper emolument (salary) for the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Field.Physical description: 1 item (20 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 23 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 17 January-2 February 1857.The item comprises correspondence, by letter and electric telegraph, of: the Secretary to the Government, Bombay; the Governor and President in Council, Bombay; the Secretary to the Government of India; and the Governor-General of India. Also included are: Minutes of members of the Council of the Governor, Bombay, and Minutes of the Commander-in-Chief, Bombay; Resolutions of the Board; and three letters from Brigadier-General John Jacob, Acting Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay.The papers relate to arrangements for the despatch of a Regiment of the Sind Irregular Horse [also referred to as Sind Horse in this item] from the Frontier of Upper Sind for service in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf. They notably cover and include:The discussion between senior members of the Bombay Presidency, regarding the original strong objection of Jacob to the withdrawal of a Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse from the Frontier of Upper Sind citing reasons of security, and the agreement of the Bombay Government and Commander-in-Chief with Jacob’s sentimentsThe proposals of the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, that: if the Punjab [also spelled Punjaub in this item] Cavalry cannot be spared for service in Persia then a temporary corps of irregular cavalry be formed for that purpose instead of sending a Regiment of Sind Horse; the temporary corps be drawn from the Poona Horse (200 men), Southern Maratha Horse (300 men) and Guzerat Horse (300 men) and placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel George Malcolm; and a further 500 soldiers are recruited to replace those lost from the latter three regimentsThe countermanding of the original order for the withdrawal of a Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse (f 328) from Upper Sind for service in the Persian Gulf; authorisation by the Government of India for the immediate organisation of the temporary irregular cavalry corps suggested by the Governor and President in Council, Bombay; and authorisation for Jacob to direct the Regiment of Sind Horse back to the Frontier of Upper SindJacob’s withdrawal of his previous objections, following an explicit request by Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram for his presence in Persia and that of the First Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse, as part of the Persian Expeditionary ForceA report by William Lockyer Merewether, Acting Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sind, detailing arrangements and establishments since the departure of the First Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse for service with the Persian Expeditionary Force (ff 349-354), including the suggestion to raise an additional body of Belooch [Baluch] Horse to assist in protecting the frontier and the civil charge of the District if the regiment cannot return immediatelyJacob’s endorsement of the proposal, in the absence of the First Regiment of Sind Irregular Horse on service in Persia, to recruit 200 additional Belooch Horse for service on the Frontier of Upper Sind under the command of Captain MerewetherCancellation of the countermand of the order regarding the despatch of the Regiment of Sind Horse to Persia, re-authorisation of their despatch to Persia, and arrangements for the recruitment and salaries of up to 1000 Belooch Horse, with four jemaders [jamadars, Indian officers in ‘sepoy’ regiments] to every one hundred men, and three European officersProposals and arrangements to send additional cavalry forces both to Upper Sind (from the Guzerat Irregular Horse) and to the Persian Gulf (from the Southern Maratha Irregular Horse and Aden Troop of Horse, under the command of George Malcolm), and authorisation of the enlistment of supernumeraries to fill the places of those withdrawn.Physical description: 1 item (64 folios)
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 56 of 1856, dated 8 November 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-19 and are dated 7 October to 5 November 1856.They mostly consist of correspondence, relating to the British military expedition about to be despatched against Persia [Iran], including:The publication by the Government of India of proclamations of war against Persia (copies of the proclamations published in the
The Calcutta Gazetteof 1 November 1856 are included on folios 157-158)The views of the Government of Bombay and the Government of India on the withdrawal of five officers of the Quartermaster-General’s and Commissariat Departments from Bushire [Bushehr] to Bassadore [Basaidu] on the request of the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Commander Felix Jones.The correspondents are: the Government of India; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay; and Felix Jones.Physical description: 1 item (34 folios)
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 53 of 1856, dated 22 October 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-12 and are dated 16 September to 4 October 1856.They consist of correspondence relating to the British force being prepared for service in the Persian Gulf, for the proposed occupation of Karrack [Kharg Island] and the district of Bushire [Bushehr].The correspondents are the following: the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department; the Officiating Superintendent of Marine; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Military Department; and the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence relating to British forces sent to Bushire during the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. The correspondents include: Major-General Foster Stalker (later James Outram), Commander of British Forces in Persia; Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay; Charles Augustus Murray, British Minister to Persia (in Baghdad during the war); James Rennie, Commander of the vessel
Ferooz; John Darke, Commander of the vessel
Hugh Lindsay; Arnold Burrows Kemball, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia and Consul General at Baghdad; Stratford Canning, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople; Meerza Hassan Ally Khan [Ḥasan ‘Ali Khān], Governor of Bushire; Brigadier Honner, Commander of the Second Light Infantry Brigade; Lieutenant Thain, Commander Deputed to Karrack [Kharg] Island; Rear Admiral Henry Leeke, Commander of the Naval Squadron of the Persian Expeditionary Force; George Frederick Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department; G I Fraser, Civil Surgeon at Ahmednagar, in charge of the Persian Prisoners of War; the Secret Committee, in London; the Foreign Office, in London; Lieutenant J Ballard, Intelligence Officer; Hajee Ahmed [Ḥājī Aḥmad], Arabic Secretary to the Political Resident at Bushire; and Bawkir Khan, Chief of Tungistoon [Tangestān].The volume is divided into sections, each containing correspondence pertaining to a particular topic, as follows:I. 1: This section contains no correspondence, but bears the title 'Expeditionary Force placed under the command of General Stalker, C. B.; Commander Felix Jones is nominated Political Agent to the Persian Field Force, and is further to retain the title and discharge the functions of Resident in the Persian Gulf'.I. 2: Relates to the appointments of Felix Jones as Civil Commissioner in the town of Bushire and Major Taylor as Stalker's assistant and interpreter.I. 3: Relates to the siege and capture of Bushire by British Forces, and their unopposed occupation of Kharg Island.I. 4: A diary of events at the Residency from 29 November 1856 to 5 April 1857.I. 5: Relates to the wartime policy regarding Persian and Arab merchants at Bombay who wish to trade with Persian Gulf ports.I. 6: Relates to Leeke's refusal to correspond directly with Jones, and the Government of India's disapproval of his behaviour.I. 7: Relates to where to send prisoners of war and their servants and effects. It contains several English cover letters for correspondence between prisoners and their families.I. 8: Contains extracts from Secret Committee and Foreign Office dispatches that outline on what terms Britain will agree a peace with Persia.I. 9: Contains correspondence and intelligence on the movements of Persian troops in the interior around Bushire and Shiraz, and what allegiance Britain can expect from the tribes of the area. Included are letters from several Persian and Arab leaders, most notably Bawkir Khan, Chief of Tangestān.Physical description: Foliation: the numbers in the sequence are circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio, on number 2, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 218. There are the following irregularities: f 2 is followed by f 2A; f 12 is followed by f 12A; f 26 is followed by f 26A; f 48 is followed by f 48A; f 89 is followed by f 89A; f 98 is followed by f 98A; f 111 is followed by f 111A; f 126 is followed by f 126A; f 141 is followed by f 141A.
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 3-24 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to events in Afghanistan and surrounding areas. Subjects covered include:An end to the British subsidy that had been paid to Dost Mahomed, Ameer of Cabul [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy, Amīr of Afghanistan], during the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57The position of Nawab Foujdar Khan [Nawwāb Fūjdār Khān] as British Vakeel [agent] at Cabul [Kabul]The return of the Kandahar Mission to IndiaA request from Dost Mahomed for a Persian language copy of the Treaty of Paris, that ended the Anglo-Persian WarReports that the King of Bokhara [Naṣr Allāh Khān, Emir of Bukhara] has put down a rebellion in Oora Tuppuh [Istaravshan, Tajikistan] and declared war on Kokan [Khanate of Kokand]Reports that two men in Herat employed respectively by the British Minister at Tehran and the Chief Commissioner, Peshawur [Peshawar], had attempted to instigate a rebellion against the Amir Sirdar Sooltan Ahmed Khan [Sirdār Sulṭān Aḥmad Khān]Dost Mahomed’s rejection of a requested visit from a Russian envoy.The primary correspondents are: Dost Mahomed; Sooltan Ahmed Khan; Foujdar Khan; the Commissioner, Peshawur; the Chief Commissioner, Punjab; and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (80 folios)
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence relating to the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57, following Persia's attempts on Herat. The letters cover a period when the British had an expeditionary force camped outside Bushire while Persian troops were amassed at Borazjoon [Borazjan] and Mohammerah [Korramshahr]. The correspondents include Charles Augustus Murray, former British Minister to Persia, General Foster Stalker and Brigadier General John Jacob, commanders within the British army, Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Lieutenant-General James Outram, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in Persia, Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, Shuja al-Mulk, a Persian commander at Borazjoon, Lieutenant James Tronson, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, Colonel Shepherd, Commander at the Bushire Camp, John Taylor, Agent and Consul at Basrah, Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, Sheikh Jabir al-Kaabi, at Mohammerah, J. M. Hyslop, in charge of local duties at the Political Agency for Turkish Arabia at Baghdad, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at Istanbul, and Mirza Mohammed Khan, Commander of the Persian forces.The volume covers the following matters:Intelligence on the construction of fortifications at Mahomerah [Korramshahr] being carried out by the Persians and the discussion over whether to destroy them;The appointment and arrival of Lieutenant General James Outram as Commander in Chief of the Persian Expeditionary Force;Communications with the Sheikhs of the surrounding villages, including those of Roodhilla [Dehrūd ‘Ulīā] and Dashtee [Khormoj];Infiltrations and harassment by the Persians in and around the English camps;Preparations for the defence of Bushire against a Persian attack;Captain Felix Jones's mission to Basrah and Mohumrah [Korramshahr] to gather intelligence and communicate with Sheikh Jabir, leader of the Chaab [Banu Ka'b], to obtain their assistance against the Persians;The consequences of a peace treaty signed by the two nations in Paris on 4 March 1857, including reiterations of friendship and peace back and forth between the commanders of both armies, and a discussion of the conditions of armistice.Physical description: Foliation: the sequence is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio of writing, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 79. Foliation irregularities: folio 15 is followed by folio 15A; folio 22 is followed by folio 22A; folio 29 is followed by folio 29A; folio 44 is followed by folio 44A; folio 50 is followed by folio 50A; folio 56 is followed by folio 56A; folio 62 is followed by folio 62A; folio 75 is followed by folio 75A.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence written during and just after the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. The correspondents include: James Felix Jones, Political Resident at Bushire; Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay; Captain Dunsterville, Assistant Commissary-General to the Persian Expeditionary Force; John Hill; Brigadier-General John Jacob, a commander of the Persian Expeditionary Force; James Outram, Commander-in-Chief of the Persian Expeditionary Force; George Frederick Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government of India; Rear Admiral Henry John Leeke, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy; Major Green, Assistant Adjutant General of the Persian Expeditionary Force; G J Robinson, Commander of the
Tigris; R W Houner, Commander of British Forces at Karrack [Kharg]; Ahmad Khan, Governor of Bushire; the Foreign Office; the Khan of Kelat [Kalat]; Sultan Mahomed Najjaff Meerza, Prince of Jahanabad; an unnamed 'native agent' at Bushire; Meerza Mahomed [Mirza Mohammed] Khan, Commander of the Persian forces; Shuja al-Mulk, a commander of Persian forces at Borazjoon [Borazjan]; and Charles Augustus Murray, British Minister at Tehran.The file is in two parts. The first pertains to a memorial (a kind of petition) from Felix Jones to the British Government following the omission of his name from a list of promotions and recipients of the Order of the Bath.The second covers a number of miscellaneous subjects, including:the idea to present two captured guns to Queen Victoria, as a gift;a detailed list of presents sent to Bushire to be used for gift exchanges;intelligence on Persian forces in the Bushire region;a request from the British to Shuja al-Mulk to purchase horses;the closure of the postal establishment at Bushire;the evacuation of Karrack [Kharg] Island by British forces as part of the conditions of the Anglo-Persian Peace Treaty.Folios 66-67 are instructions for the garrison and gate guards during the British military occupation of the town of Bushire.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the cover and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top centre of the recto side of each folio. There are the following irregularities: 25 and 25A; 63 and 63A; 64 and 64A; 67 and 67A.
Abstract: This volume consists mostly of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Writing on behalf of the Residency are Commander (James) Felix Jones, Acting Resident (and later in the volume, Resident) in the Persian Gulf, and Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf. At this time the Secretary to the Government of Bombay was Henry Lacon Anderson.The volume is divided into two sections. The first section (ff 1A-65) concerns Persia and the Persian coast. Several of Anderson's letters contain copies of received correspondence, including a letter (ff 3-7) from George Frederick Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government of India, as well as extracts of letters from the East India Company's Court of Directors. In addition, there is a copy of a petition (ff 41-44) addressed by Cornwallis Hewett, Resident at Kurrachee [Karāchi], to Lord Elphinstone, Governor and President in Council at Bombay, in which Hewett complains that he has sustained losses as a result of the Governor of Bushire detaining a number of his horses. This petition is followed by copies of letters between the Residency and Hewett (and Hewett's agent), which date from September 1855 to May 1856.Some of the letters from the Residency to Bombay include translated extracts of correspondence with native agents and local rulers, including the Agent at Shiraz and His Royal Highness the Prince of Shiraz.Other subjects covered in this section include Britain's commercial treaty with Persia (1847) and its implications for granting passports to Indian-born and Persian-born subjects, and the onset of the Anglo-Persian War.The second section (ff 66-93) has been labelled as miscellaneous correspondence. One letter from Jones to Anderson (ff 67-75) contains translated extracts of correspondence both with native agents and with a number of local rulers, including: Zayid ben Khuleefah [Shaikh Zayed bin Khalīfah Al Nahyan], Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]; Sheikh Abdul Rahman ben Suggur, Governor of Kishm [Qeshm]; Sheikh Ali ben Khuleefa [Shaikh Ali bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrein [Bahrain]; and Ameer Fyzal [Faisal bin Turki bin ‘Abdullāh Al Sa‘ūd], the Wahabee Ameer [Wahhābī Emir]. These enclosures relate to the Crimean War: each extract expresses the respective ruler's pleasure at having learned of the fall of Sebastopol [Sevastopol].This section also includes a letter (ff 76-84) from Jones to Anderson on the subject of the Residency's finances, in which Jones encloses lists of the allowances for the various positions attached to the Residency on 1 May 1827, 1 May 1832, 1 October 1835 and 1 July 1856 respectively.In another letter to Anderson (ff 85-88), Jones includes copies of correspondence, dating from 1844, between Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, and the Secretary to the Government of India, on the subject of replacing Indian sepoys with horsemen for the purpose of collecting and carrying dispatches.Physical description: Pagination: An original pagination sequence is present between folio 2 and folio 93; these numbers are written in ink and can be found in the top left corners of the versos and in the top right corners of the rectos.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. It should be noted that the following anomalies occur in this sequence: folio 1 is followed by folio 1A; folio 71 is followed by folio 71A; folio 79 is followed by folio 79A; folio 80 is followed by folio 80A; folio 81 is followed by folio 81A.
Abstract: This volume consists almost entirely of letters received by the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy from the senior Indian Navy officer in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron (acting or otherwise). Most of the letters are addressed to a named recipient and the bulk of these are addressed to Rear Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke; the remaining letters are addressed to Leeke's successor, George Greville Wellesley. The first correspondent stated as being in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron is Commodore Richard Ethersey; the second correspondent to appear in this role is Acting Commodore John William Young. Ethersey and Young are succeeded in this role by James Rennie, who is credited initially as Acting Commodore and later as Senior Naval Officer in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron. Most of the letters in this volume are from James Rennie.Some of the letters contain enclosures from other correspondents including: Major William Henry Rhodes Green; Gordon Asher, Assistant Surgeon in Medical Charge of the Honourable Company steam frigate, the
Feerooz; Commander William Beaumont Selby, Indian Navy, Commander of the Euphrates flotilla.Only one of James Rennie's letters is addressed to a recipient other than the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy. The letter in question is addressed to Robert Barclay Chapman, Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India.The letters primarily discuss the movements of vessels belonging to the Persian Gulf Squadron. A couple of letters include lists of vessels which have arrived and/or sailed from Bushire, along with details of their cargo. Several of the letters concern the Persian Gulf Squadron's involvement in the Anglo-Persian War and in the Battle of Mahomerah [Khorramshahr, Iran] in particular. Other subjects covered include: matters relating to naval officers, including appointments, examinations, resignations and deaths; the states of repair of some of the Squadron's ships; the discovery of two shoals in the Persian Gulf which do not appear in existing charts; accounts of coal reserves at Bushire, Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū] and Muscat; the state of the pier at Bassadore.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 169. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the volume.
Abstract: This volume primarily concerns Britain's Persian Expeditionary Force and the state of relations between the British and the Persians following the end of the Anglo-Persian War. The volume contains letters written and received by a range of correspondents, including the following:Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, Commander of the Persian Expeditionary Force, Bushire;Meerza [Mirza] Mahomed Khan, Sirkisheekchee Bashee and Mookhtar-ood-Dowlah, Persian Commander-in-Chief;Hajee Sheikh Mohsin Khan, representative of Meerza Mahomed Khan;Captain James Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf (also referred to as Political Agent of the Persian Forces and Civil Commander);Brigadier-General John Jacob, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces, Bushire;Brigadier Henry Willoughby Trevelyan, Commandant of Artillery in Persia;Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government, Bombay;Charles Augustus Murray, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia;Brigadier Robert William Honner, Commander at Karrack [Bandar-e Charak];Ahmed Khan, Durya Begee and Governor of Bushire;His Royal Highness Prince Tahmasp Meerza [Tahmasp Mirza Mu'ayyid al-Dawla], Governor of Fars;Commander James Rennie, Senior Naval Officer, Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, Bushire;George Frederick Edmonstone, Secretary to the Government of India.The volume has been divided into sections and summarised as follows:Folios 3-54: Hajee Sheikh Mohsin Khan's visit to the British Commander-in-Chief [Brigadier-General John Jacob], Brigadier Henry Willoughby Trevelyan's return visit to the Persian Commander-in-Chief [Meerza Mahomed Khan], and details of the powers devolved by Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram to Brigadier-General John Jacob;Folios 55-69: Extracts (sent to Bombay by the Resident) from the
Tehran Gazetteregarding the renewal of friendship between Britain and Persia, religious toleration in Persia, and Afghans residing in Persia;Folios 70-84: The return of His Excellency Charles Augustus Murray to the Persian capital and the evacuation of Mohumrah [Khorramshahr, Iran] and Bushire;Folios 85-107: General John Jacob's farewell orders;Folios 108-192: The appointment of Ahmed Khan as Governor of Dashtestan and Bushire.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the inside of the back cover; the numbers are written in pencil, are circled and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 3-6 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures consist of copies of papers relating to the Kandahar Mission, a British diplomatic mission to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1857-58. Most of the item consists of a detailed report from the head of the mission, Major Harry Burnett Lumsden, which covers the political and military situation in Afghanistan, and observations on culture, geography and population. Folio 144 includes a sketch of a fortified building encountered on the mission’s journey between Kohant [Kohat] and Cabul [Kabul]. Folios 195-210 consist of a vocabulary of the Kaffir [Nuristani] language. Folio 287 consists of a sketch map of Kaffiristan [Nuristan]. Folio 288 contains both a plan and a sketch of the Fort of Kilat-i-Chilze [Qalat-e Gilzay]. The enclosures also contain correspondence from the Commissioner, Peshawur [Peshawar], and the Chief Commissioner, Punjab, reacting to the report and discussing British policy towards Afghanistan in the wake of the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57 and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.Physical description: 1 item (217 folios)