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1. The 'Kandahar Sirdars'
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- Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 11 dated 2 February 1856. The enclosures are dated 17-19 January 1856.The papers comprise:A report by the Acting Superintendent of Police, Bombay, to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, concerning the arrival of Sirdar Munowar Dill Khan [Serdār Munawwar Dil Khān] of Kandahar at the Presidency, his movements whilst at Bombay, and his apparent preparations to leave for Aden en route to MeccaA Resolution of Board confirming that it has no objection to Sirdar Munowur Dil Khan going to MeccaA letter from Henry Bartle Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh], to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, suggesting that the consent of Dost Mohamed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] be obtained regarding those members of his Kandahar family who have applied to the British to go to India via Sind, and that since Dost Mahomed has reason to doubt the ‘fidelity’ of the sirdars he may not be sorry if they remain in ‘British India’ where ‘he may feel assured they will not be permitted to organize any movement inimical to himself, as they might possibly do if they again sought refuge in Persia’ (f 151).Physical description: 1 item (7 folios)
2. ‘Case of the Persian Nobleman Agha Khan Mehlatee. Vol: 1’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of secret letters from the Governments of Bombay and India to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of four items on Agha Khan Mehlatee [Āqā Khān I].The item concerns the refugee from Persia [Iran], Agha Khan Mehlatee, currently residing in British India including:Arrangements for his pension [stipend]Negotiations with the Persian Government over his permitted place of residence in British IndiaThe advisability of his return to PersiaArrangements for his repatriation to Persia, including permitted routes of travelAgha Khan’s refusal to return to Persia.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following reference: ‘Draft no 22 of 1851’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 406, and terminates at f 450 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. ‘Case of the Persian Nobleman Agha Khan Mehlatee. Vol: 2’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2388/127592. The main correspondents are: the Government of India; the Government of Bombay; Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran; and Agha Khan Mehlatee [Āqā Khān I]. It is the second in a series of four items on Agha Khan Mehlatee.The item concerns:The initial demands of the Persian [Iranian] Government that Agha Khan be expelled from British India, and later demands that he be confined to the Bengal PresidencyAgha Khan’s move from Scinde [Sindh] to Bombay [Mumbai] and then to Calcutta [Kolkata]Accusations from the Persian Government that Agha Khan, with the help of his brother, is fomenting unrest in Beloochistan [Balochistan]Payment of a stipend to Agha Khan from the Government of India, and payments for him to move to CalcuttaAn offer of the Persian Government to allow Agha Khan to return, provided that he returns via Bushire [Bushehr] and Shiraz, or Bagdad [Baghdad] and Kermanshah, rather than through Beloochistan and KermanAgha Khan’s rejection of the terms under which he might return to Persia.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following reference: ‘Draft no 22 of 1851’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 451, and terminates at f 663 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. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 456a.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
4. ‘Case of the Persian Nobleman Agha Khan Mehlatee. Vol: 3’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, memoranda, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2388/127592. The main correspondents are: the Government of India; the Government of Bombay; Agha Khan Mehlatee [Āqā Khān I]; and Lieutenant William Orfeur Cavenagh, Superintendent of the ex-Ameers [Amirs] of Scinde [Sindh]. It is the third in a series of four items on Agha Khan Mehlatee.The item concerns:Payment of a stipend to Agha Khan from the Government of India and other related financial matters, including renting property in Calcutta [Kolkata] and travelling expensesThe death of Mahomed Shah [Muḥammad Qājār, Shāh of Persia]Agha Khan’s plan to return to Persia [Iran] and his move to Bombay [Mumbai] in preparation for this return.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following reference: ‘Draft no 22 of 1851’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 664, and terminates at f 806 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. ‘Case of the Persian Nobleman Agha Khan Mehlatee. Vol: 4’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, memoranda, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2388/127592. The main correspondents are: the Government of India; the Government of Bombay; and Agha Khan Mehlatee [Āqā Khān I]. It is the fourth in a series of four items on Agha Khan Mehlatee.The item concerns:Financial affairs of Agha Khan, including: the payment of his stipend from the Government of India; rent payments for his houses in Bombay [Mumbai]; collections of money donations from his followers in Cutch [Kutch]; and the management of his and his family’s debts in Baghdad and in Persia [Iran]Preparations for Agha Khan’s return to Persia from Bombay, delays to his return, and political information from Persia leading to his continued stay in India.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following reference: ‘Draft no 22 of 1851’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 807, and terminates at f 991 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. Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
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- Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 6 dated 15 January 1856. The enclosures are dated 8 December 1855-11 January 1856.The primary correspondents are Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Commissioner in Sind [Sindh]; the Governor and President in Council, Bombay; and the Secretary to the Government, Bombay.The papers cover the following matters:The request of a nephew of Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] who is at Kurrachee [Karachi], for British assistance, as an ally, in obtaining accommodation on a steamer to Bombay and then to Aden, en route to MeccaNews concerning the son of the Governor of Candahar [Kandahar] who refused the summons of Dost Mahomed Khan and went to Seeistan [Sistan] and then Chaka [Chakah?] and intends to ‘go to Hindoostan’ [Hindustan, the Persian name for the Indian subcontinent] (f 39)The question of whether to authorise Meer Alem Khan [Mīr ‘Ālim Khān], son of Rahm dil Khan [Raḥīm Dil Khān], who left Kandahar and is in Dadur [Dhadar, also known as Dadhar, Balochistan], to carry out his intention of going to JacobabadThe question of whether to authorise the entry of Sirdar Munwar Dil Khan [Serdār Munawwar Dil Khān], a relative of Sirdar Rahim Dil Khan [Serdār Raḥīm Dil Khān], to enter British territory, in view of the lately renewed ‘friendship’ between Dost Mahomed Khan and the British Government in IndiaReports of a clash in the Marree [Mari] Hills between members of the Murree [Marī] and Boogtee [Bugṭī] tribes resulting in the defeat of the former.Physical description: 1 item (11 folios)
7. File 3276/1912 ‘Pts 1 & 2 PERSIA:- ZIL-ES-SULTAN AND AKRA-MIRZA’
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- Abstract: The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject ‘Zil-es-Sultan and his son Akbar Mirza’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/293/1) concerns [Masud Mirza] Zil-es-Sultan and his son Akbar Mirza. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/293/2) concerns Zil-es-Sultan. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of the correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence. The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents in the volume; the minute and reference papers of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office in London, which enclose these documents, are dated 1912 to 1918.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 299; 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 between ff 193-199; these numbers are written in red crayon.