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49. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 142 of 1846, dated 2 December 1846. The enclosures are dated 24 September-28 November 1846.The enclosures relate to a complaint by Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, regarding the initial refusal of Captain James Kilner, the Executive Engineer, Aden, to furnish him with the sanctioned plans for the fortifications of Aden for inspection by Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood. Also covered are:Kilner’s release of the plans upon learning that Blackwood has instructions directly from the Governor-General of India to inspect and report upon the sea defences of AdenHaines’s complaint about Kilner’s repeated lack of courtesy, and insistence on the need for a regulation or instruction to be put in place in order to avert future uncooperative behaviour respecting the Political Agent’s authorityThe concurrence of the Government of Bombay that Kilner’s conduct was wrong and deprecation of ‘these wranglings between the Political Agent and the Engineer Department’ (f 247)The agreement of the Governor-General that Kilner ‘manifested a want of a conciliatory disposition’ (f 251), coupled with a defence of Kilner’s adherence to proper confidentiality and security procedures and suggestion that the Government of Bombay admonish both officers, who should show ‘an example of moderation and an obliging spirit’ towards each other, adding that ‘no regulations or instructions can enforce courtesy’ (f 252).The principal correspondents are the Government of Bombay, Haines, and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (16 folios)
50. Muscat Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 145 of 1846, dated 2 December 1846. The enclosures are dated 9 September-2 December 1846.The papers relate to affairs in Muscat [also spelled Maskat in this item], reported to the Government of Bombay by Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and HC [Honourable Company’s] Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imām, also spelled Imam in this item] of Muscat (based in Zanzibar), including:The result of Hamerton’s investigation of the rumour that the Imaum had agreed to transfer Muscat and its dependencies to his son Prince Said Hillal [Sayyid Hilāl bin Saʿīd, also spelled Hellaul and Hillaul in this item], and Hamerton’s report of the bad relationship existing between the Imaum and the PrinceThe anxious desire, as conveyed by Hamerton to the Government of Bombay, of the Imaum to receive a response to his request to blockade the port of Bushire [Bushehr] in retaliation for the ‘oppressive conduct’ by Persian [Iranian] Government officials, notably the Governor of Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], towards his subjects in his possessions on the Persian coastThe proceedings of the Chief of Sohar, Syed Hamood bin Azan [Sayyid Ḥammūd bin ‘Azzān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, also spelled Saied in this item] in the Persian Gulf, including his transferring to the Matawas [al-Muṭawwi‘ūn, priests] of the Beni Saad [Banū Sa‘d, an Omani family group] the Fort of Sohar and its dependencies inland, and the election by 500 Matawas of an ‘Imam’ [‘a chief priest or Bishop’] for Oman (an office filled for many years by the Imām of Muscat’s family).The principal correspondents are Hamerton and the Government of Bombay.The last three enclosures, the Bombay Times Summary of Intelligence, the Overland Bombay Courierand the Bombay Telegraphare noted as ‘Missing 29.10.1906’.Physical description: 1 item (19 folios)
51. Memoranda Relating to Departmental Views on the Conduct of the War in the East and the Administration of Mesopotamia
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- Abstract: The file comprises typescript, printed and manuscript memoranda, dated 1918 and 1920 by: Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State for India; Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (up to October 1919); Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office; and Foreign Office officials as instructed by Lord Curzon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (from October 1919).The memoranda cover the different views expressed by the Foreign Office, India Office and War Office, on the conduct of the War in the East and British policy in the Middle East, in particular the following:The effectiveness of policy being conducted by the Eastern Committee of the War CabinetThe roles of the Government of India and the India Office, and the Foreign Office, in that region, notably in Arabia, Persia [Iran] and Mesopotamia [Iraq]Whether a separate department should be established by the Foreign Office and War Office to deal with Middle Eastern affairsCriticism by the Eastern Committee, and the Foreign Office and Lord Curzon, of the administration of Mesopotamia by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner, notably for being too 'militaristic', anti-democratic, insufficiently focused on civil administration, and antagonistic to Arab nationalism.Several of the memoranda written in 1918 are responses by the Foreign Office and the War Office to Montagu's memorandum entitled 'War Cabinet. Eastern Committee. The War in the East', 5 July 1918 (ff 10-11), in which Montagu expresses doubts about the Eastern Committee's conduct of war policy in the Middle East. The memoranda written in 1920 document the Foreign Office's views on the 'Wilsonian policy being pursued in Mesopotamia' (ff 24-36).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 60; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio and are not circled.
52. Correspondence of Harford Jones with J A Grant, Jonathan Duncan and Lord Elgin
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- Abstract: This item contains copies of three letters:1. A letter from J A Grant, Sub-Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 17 October 1801. Grant reports that Jones’s letters to the Governor of Bombay concerning his dispute with the Bashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] have been received and forwarded to the Governor-General of Bengal. The letter states that the Governor of Bombay declines to comment on the dispute at present.Attached is a letter from Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, to Harford Jones. Duncan states that he has forwarded Jones’s correspondence concerning his dispute with the Bashaw to the Governor-General of Bengal and declines to comment on the dispute at present.2. A copy of a letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 9 December 1801. The letter congratulates Elgin on the preliminary peace treaty between Britain and France [Treaty of London 1801] and thanks him for communicating the news.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
53. Correspondence of Harford Jones, Samuel Manesty and Lord Elgin
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- Abstract: A ‘Narrative of Proceedings’ from the period 14-20 July 1821, describing a dispute between Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and Soliman Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad].Attached are:Two letters from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Harford Jones, sent from Bussora and dated 7 July 1801. Manesty affirms his support for Jones is his dispute with the Pashaw and offers to accommodate Jones in Bussora if he leaves BagdadA declaration to the Pashaw by Harford Jones, dated 17 July 1801. Jones declares his intention to leave for Bussora, but also offers to remain in Bagdad subject to conditionsA letter from Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to Harford Jones, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 23 June 1801. The letter stresses the need not to undermine Britain’s relations with allies through disrespectful and imperious behaviourA summary of a letter from Lord Elgin to Soliman Pashaw, addressing the dispute with Jones and affirming the importance of the Pashaw’s friendship to Britain.These papers were enclosed in Jones’s letter to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, dated August 1801 (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/163).Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
54. Extract of Letter from Samuel Manesty to Jonathan Duncan
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- Abstract: An extract of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, dated 9 May 1803.The letter concerns a dispute between Manesty and the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] arising from the detention in Bussora of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299), and forwards related correspondence. Manesty proposes leaving for India, meeting with the Governor-General of Bengal, and establishing new arrangements for British representation in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq].This extract was enclosed in Manesty’s letter to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 9 May 1803 (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/323).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
55. File 2834/1917 Pts 3-4 'SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES'
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- Abstract: The volume relates to the opposition of the Government of India to paying half the expense of maintaining the South Persia Rifles, and the disbandment of the unit in 1921. It comprises two parts as follows:IOR/L/PS/10/692/1: Part 3, ‘PERSIA: - SOUTH PERSIA RIFLES. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS’ (ff 186-206)IOR/L/PS/10/692/2: Part 4, ‘South Persia Rifles: - General correspondence regarding disbandment. Disposal of arms, ammunition, stores, etc.’ (ff 2-185).(Parts 1 and 2 are catalogued as IOR/L/PS/10/690 and 691 respectively. Part 2 also contains papers relating to the disbandment).Each part includes a Political and Secret Department divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 207; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.