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1. ‘Persian Gulf. Proceedings connected with the dispatch of a portion of the squadron in the – to Mohumrah, at the requisition of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia. – Vol: 8’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Government of India. It is the eighth in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.This item concerns Hennell’s acquiescence to the request of Major Henry Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], to send some vessels of the Persian Gulf squadron to Mohumrah [Khorramshahr] without receiving instructions to do so from Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farrant, Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran, and the Governments of Bombay and India’s opinions on the matter.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 7 of No 95’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 236, and terminates at f 244 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.
2. ‘Persia & Kurdistan. Relative of a journey thro’ parts of – undertaken by Commander Jones of the Indian Navy, & Major Rawlinson C. B. Political Agent in Turkish Arabia – Vol: 1’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Lynch, Officiating Superintendent of the Indian Navy; and Commander Felix Jones. It is the first in a series of two items on Jones’s travels.The item concerns Jones’s account of his travels accompanying Major Henry Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] from Baghdad to Sulemaneyeh [Sulaymaniyah] via Kirmanshah [Kermanshah] and their separate return to Baghdad, to investigate the border between the Persian [Iranian] and Ottoman Empires prior to the Second Treaty of Erzroum [Erzurum]. The account includes frequent latitude and longitude bearings, observations of the temperature, and exact timings, as well as remarks on local history, the people Jones met, and descriptions of ancient ruins and inscriptions with etymological and historical conjectures. A detailed description of the Behistan [Behistun] Inscription appears on folios 670-675, and the Tak-i-Bostan [Taq-e Bostan] sculptures are described on folios 679-681. The item does not contain a copy of the map which Jones created.The places visited include:The River Diyleh [Diyala]Village of Bakuba [Baqubah]Shehraban [Al Miqdadiyah]The Holwan River [Nahr Alwand]Kasri Shirim [Qasr-e Shirin]Sar-puli-Zohab [Sarpol-e Zahab]Sar-mil [Sarmil]Kirrind [Kerend-e Gharb]Kirmanshah [Kermanshah]Mahidasht [Mahi Dasht]Halebjah [Halabja]Sulemaneyeh [Sulaymaniyah].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 586/49’, ‘Coll[ection]: 3’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 139’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 630, and terminates at f 706 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.
3. ‘Execution of Court’s orders directing the abolition of the Agency establishment at Mocha, suspended on the recommendation of the Supreme Government.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the governments of Bengal and Bombay [Mumbai].The item relates to the question of maintaining a Political Agent at Mocha. The East India Company Court of Directors expresses its opinion that, due to the failure to develop trade with Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and of the costs of procuring coffee from Mocha, maintaining a Political Agent in that port is not justified. In response, the Government of Bombay presents arguments in favour of keeping a Political Agent, and discusses how coffee might be procured on more advantageous terms.The title page (f 47) of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political No.3, 1817/18, Draft 127’ and ‘Examiner’s Office, March 1817’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 47, and terminates at 65, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
4. ‘Aden. Complaint preferred by Captain R. Cogan, late of the Indian Navy against Captain Hains, Political Agent at Aden.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, an extract Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 30 November 1847.The item relates to a complaint made by Captain Robert Cogan, formerly of the Indian Navy, against Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, in October 1847. The Government of Bombay reports that the Governor-General of India has confirmed that he agrees with their judgement on the matter.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft N. 152/48’, ‘Collection No. 1 of No. 150’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 822, and terminates at f 825, 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.
5. ‘Proceedings regarding the proposed arrangement of substituting for the Resident in the Persian Gulf an Assistant under the Envoy at Tehraun – Channel of his correspondence – Reduction in the Residency Establishment and appointment of Major Morison to the Office of Resident.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bombay [Mumbai], Fort St George [Madras, i.e. Chennai], and the East India Company Court of Directors.The item relates to proposals by the Court of Directors to change the position of ‘Resident at Bushire’ ([Būshehr], also called the Resident in the Persian Gulf) to ‘Assistant to the Envoy at Tehran’. The Government of Bombay and the Resident, David Anderson Blane, provide their detailed opinions on this proposal and the Court of Directors respond. The main points of discussion are: the experience and diplomatic skills required by the Resident to effectively manage relations with nearby rulers and suppress acts of ‘piracy’; potential reductions in the Residency’s expenses; and an earlier plan to move the Residency from Bushire to the nearby island of Kharrack [Jazīreh-ye Khārk]. Copies of earlier (1828) minutes by the Governor of Bombay regarding the purpose of the Resident at Bushire and the Residency's expenses are included.The item also refers to proposals by the Government of India to separate the governments of Bengal ([Calcutta], also called Fort William) and Agrah [Agra] and to transfer political authority from the subordinate governments of Bombay and Fort St George to the Government of India. A lengthy minute (ff 120-135) by the Governor of Bombay detailing his opposition to the latter proposal is included, along with multiple tables (ff 140-174) setting out the different relationships that the Government of Bombay holds with ‘local chieftains’ in the areas surrounding Bombay, notably Guzerat [Gujarat] and Kattywar [Kathiawar]. Some of these tables date back to 1820. The direct reporting of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia and the Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Government of India, as opposed to the Government of Bombay, is also discussed.To a lesser extent, the item also relates to the appointment of Major James Morison to the position of Resident in the Persian Gulf, an event complicated by the disclosure that Morison has been granted permission to return to Europe due to poor health.Multiple spellings of numerous place names are present in the item. The majority of the item’s contents date from 1834-35.Principal correspondents include: the governments of India, Fort St George, and Bombay; the Court of Directors; and Blane.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Coll[ection] No. 15’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 1721, Draft 266, 1836’, ‘Collection N. 1 [crossed out] of N. 33’, ‘Bombay Political Department’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 50, and terminates at f 208, 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.
6. ‘Major Todd’s Memorial’
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- Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-6 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of India, dated 20 August 1841. The enclosures are dated 18-19 August 1841, and contain for reference material dated 15 May 1839-2 July 1841.Enclosure no. 3 (ff 401-615) comprises the majority of this item, and consists of a memorial by Captain Elliot D’Arcy Todd (sometimes referred to as ‘Major Todd’, a temporary rank he had previously held while serving in Persia [Iran]) outlining his service and achievements as Political Agent at Herat, and arguing for his reinstatement to that position. The memorial is followed by fourteen appendices containing correspondence and other papers included in support of Todd’s position. In addition to Todd the correspondents include: Yar Mahomed Khan [Yār Muḥammad Khān ‘Alī Kūzāy], Vuzeer [Vizier] of Herat; the Government of India; and various Indian Army officers.Enclosure nos. 4-6 (ff 616-22) contain responses to Todd’s memorial from the Governor-General of India and members of the Council of India.Physical description: 1 item (205 folios)
7. The Suggestion of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia of Increasing the Duty Levied at Bussorah on the Export of Horses
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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 124 of 1846, dated 29 October 1846.The enclosures, numbered 3-8 and dated 16 to 29 October 1846, consist of:Minutes of the Governor of Bombay and the Civil Members of the Board, regarding the suggestion made by the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, in a despatch to HM Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul], of increasing the duty levied on horses exported from Bussorah [Basra]A letter from the Secretary to Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Frederick Currie, forwarding copies of these minutes for submission to the Governor-General.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
8. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: Copies of correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to British administration of Aden subsequent to its capture by the British in January 1839, chiefly instructions from the Government of India to Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent in Aden.The papers mainly concern:Arrangements for security and policing in Aden in light of recent attacks and robberies allegedly committed by ‘marauding parties’ of Bedowins [Bedouins], including proposal for an ‘Arab Mounted Police’ and the expediency of utilising Arabs for this purposeStipends or allowances to be paid by the British to certain Arab chiefs in return for the latter guaranteeing to protect the roads and communications into the interior, including limits on the amount to be expended by Haines and the terms and conditions of paymentsReimbursement of Haines’s expenses incurred in paying stipends and entertaining Arab chiefs visiting the ResidencyDeferment of a decision regarding claims by Arab chiefs for loss of tribute previously received from port duties prior to the British capture of AdenProposal to send three captured Turkish brass guns to Queen Victoria in EnglandViews of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Dickinson, Chief Engineer at Bombay [Mumbai], on Captain Robert Foster’s plans for the fortification of Aden and construction of new buildings (ff 355-358)Petitions from the merchants of Aden to the Governor in Council, regarding heavy customs duties levied on goods using the port, considering former British promises to abolish them for five years (ff 360 and 362), including table of duties charged on goods imported and exported by sea and transiting to and from the interior (ff 371-372)Letter from Shiekh Kasim Bin Sueed of Surhub [Shaikh Qasim bin Sa'id al-Sharjabi] to the Governor in Council requesting British assistance in his hostilities against ‘the Turks’ [Ottomans].The principal correspondents are: John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government in India, and Thomas Herbert Maddock, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.There is a note before the papers commence stating: ‘Enclosure in Bombay Secret Letter No. 59, dated 8th May 1839, is missing from this collection’.Physical description: The papers are not in chronological order.
9. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises an abstract of contents listing copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 71 of 1847, dated 6 August 1847. The abstract lists enclosures dated 2 October 1846-31 July 1847, however there is a note on the abstract stating that ‘The enclosures detailed in this abstract are missing 30.10.1906’.The abstracts indicate that the enclosures related to discussion of the Governor-General’s suggestion to place the port of Aden under a Governor or Lieutenant Governor with authority for the whole of the civil and military administration of Aden, combining the roles of Political Agent and Commanding Officer, due to the recent disharmony between the two office-holders (see also IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 473-474).Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-16, on folios 401-404. The enclosures are not present.
10. Aden Affairs: A Difference of Opinion between the Agent at Aden and Captain Kilner, the Executive Engineer at Aden
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 59 of 1847, dated 18 June 1847. The enclosures are dated 3-22 March 1847.The primary document is a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, relating to a difference of opinion between Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, the Agent at Aden, and Captain J Kilner, the Executive Engineer at Aden, who refuses to furnish for the inspection of Commodore Sir Henry Martin Blackwood plans of the fortifications of Aden, including the Governor-General’s admonishment of Captain Haines for not dealing with the matter.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-4, on folio 199. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
11. Proceedings of the Bombay Government connected with the Affairs of Aden
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, No. 103 of 1842, dated 28 September 1842. It contains material relating to the following:The relations between the Sultan of Lahidge [Sulṭān of Lahij, Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī], the Fouthalee [Faḍlī] Tribe, and the British garrison at AdenThe possible ‘restoration’ of the stipends paid by the British to the Chief of the Fouthalee Tribe and to Sheik Hazzah Ibn Raqqut [Shaikh Hazzāʻ bin Raqqūt?]The appointment of Eschreff Bey [Ashraf Bey] as Commissioner to assist British merchants, and ‘remove’ Sheriff Husain Ibn Ali Hyder [Sharīf Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī Ḥaydar]The ‘extortions’ by Osman Pasha [‘Uthmān Pāshā], Ottoman Governor of Judda [Jeddah], and complaints by the Political Agent at Aden [Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines]The establishment of the new town of Aden, and reservation of ground for ‘military purposes’.Physical description: 1 item (47 folios)