Abstract: The item consists of abstracts of political and secret letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. The letters date from 3 October 1798 to 28 September 1801 and concern attempts by Zaman Shah Durrani [Zamān Shāh Durrānī] to conquer Hindostan [subcontinental India] and British efforts to counteract them.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2302/118727. The correspondent is Jackson William Muspratt, the General Pay Master, Bombay. It is the sixteenth in a series of fifty-one items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the delay of the arrival of the Persian Gulf Residency remittance list at the office of the General Pay Master.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No 15 of No 129’, ‘Coll[ection]: 17’ and ‘Draft no 465 of 49’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 430, and terminates at f 433, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The main correspondents are the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; Meerza Mahmood [Mīrzā Muḥammad], British Agent at Shiraz; Bahram Mirza [Bahrām Mīrzā Mo‘ezz-al-Dawlah], Prince-Governor of Fars; and Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Tehran.The item concerns:Attempts by the Prince-Governor of Fars to levy a fine of 300 tomans on the nakhuda of a Dashtee [Dashti] vessel for importing enslaved people into Bushire [Bushehr]5% customs duties levied on sugar from Java arriving at Bushire, compared to the previous rate of 1.25%, and discussions by Hennell about whether he should intervene to ask the Prince-Governor of Fars to exempt these Bushire traders affected from inland transit dutiesRequests for assistance made to Hennell by people who have had property stolenMilitary conflicts between Bakir Khan [Bāqir Khān Tangistānī] and Sheik Nasir [Shaikh Nāṣir II Āl Madhkūr], Governor of Bushire, and between Bakir Khan and the Prince-Governor of FarsThe replacement of Bahram Mirza as Prince-Governor of Fars, and Kurrem Khan [Karīm Khān] as Governor of Behbehan [Behbahan]Unrest in the province of FarsThe imprisonment of Mirza Alli Mahomed [Mīrzā ‘Alī Muḥammad], the Bab [Báb], and an order for his executionThe effects of locusts on food pricesSheik Nasir’s reluctance to go to Shiraz as he owed the Prince-Governor of Fars tributeEnquiries into the conduct of Mirza Mahomed due to complaints against him, including that he stole a gold watch from the late Mr Tasker, claims which are refuted by HennellDefeat of the Babees [Bábis], who had been causing disturbances by the SirbazThe execution of Syed Yahyah [Sayyid Yaḥyá], a follower of the Bab.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft No 91 of 1851’ and ‘Coll[ection]: 18’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 568, and terminates at f 675, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The item consists of notes relating to Persia [Iran] and taken from letters from the Bombay, Bengal, and Madras governments sent between 27 December 1805 and 20 February 1808. The relevant letters are noted in the margins. The notes were made in preparation for an annual report.Matters covered by the notes include:Letters from the King [Shāh] and Prince of Persia to be delivered to the King of the United Kingdom and Prince of WalesFinancial claims made by Mehedi Ali Khan [Mīrzā Mahdī ‘Alī Khān], the late Resident at Bushire [Bushehr]Financial claims made by Aka Mahomed Nubbee Khan [Muḥammad Nabī Khān Shirāzī, Persian Ambassador to the British in India]Relations between Russia and Persia, including the presence of a Russian Envoy at the Persian CourtFrench efforts to form an alliance with Persia and their plans to invade India.Physical description: 1 item (15 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises an abstract listing enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 146 of 1846, dated 11 December 1846. In the abstract the enclosures are dated 4 November 1844-26 November 1846.The enclosures, which are not present in this item, relate to the proceedings of the Government of Bombay in connection with Aga Khan Mehlatee [Āqā Khān Maḥallātī also known as Ḥasan ‘Alī Shāh], a refugee subject of the Government of Persia [Iran], including: his residence in Sind [Sindh] and then Bombay [Mumbai]; the attendance of a European Medical Officer on Aga Khan and his family in Sind; the allowance paid for his support by the Government of Bombay; the refusal of the Persian Government to grant permission for him to re-visit Sind (in 1846) to settle his affairs; the demand of the Persian Government that he be removed to Calcutta [Kolkata]; the Shah of Persia's encouragement of his return to Persia and promises to receive him 'kindly' and release all his property and estate from sequestration; the payment of arrears of his allowance by the Government of Bombay; and his apparent wish to return to Persia.Physical description: 1 item (15 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Major George Willock, Acting Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran] to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Tabriz and dated 25 January 1823.The letter concerns the disavowal by the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] of the agreement between William Bruce, Resident at Bushire [Būshehr], and the Government of Fars in Shiraz (IOR/L/PS/9/69/124 and 131), and forwards related correspondence (IOR/L/PS/9/69/127-134).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)