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1. ‘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.
2. ‘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.
3. ‘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.
4. ‘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.
5. Affairs in Aden
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 114 of 1842, dated 15 October 1842. The enclosures are dated 26 September to 15 October 1842, and consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden and the surrounding area, including Mocha.The correspondence is mainly between the following: the Political Agent at Aden (Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines); the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]; and the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General (Thomas Herbert Maddock). There is also a letter from Haines to the Secretary to the Secret Committee.The correspondence discusses British relations with local rulers, including Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel of Lahidge [Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī, Sultan of Lahej], whom Haines reports had issued an order prohibiting supplies of grass being sent to the town of Aden. The correspondence also concerns the restoration of the stipend formerly received by the Foudthelee Chief [the Fadhli Sultan, Aḥmad bin Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] from the British Government.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-8, on folios 370-372. These numbers are repeated for reference on the last verso of each enclosure.
6. The Payment of the Stipend of the Chief of Lahedge
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 108 of 1847, dated 31 December 1847. The enclosures relate to the resumption of the payment of the stipend previously granted by the British Government to the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej, also spelled Lahidge in this item]. They are numbered 3-12 and are dated 16 August to 31 December 1847.The enclosures discuss the following:The Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, reporting in a letter to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, on the state of affairs in the vicinity of Aden, including the Chief of Lahedge, Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel [Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī], again soliciting the forgiveness of the British Government for his previous conduct, and seeking the resumption of the payment of his monthly stipend, promising to remain on friendly terms with the BritishThe background to the stipend, which was stopped in August 1846 after, Malet states, the Sultan had taken a prominent part in a plan to attack AdenThe recommendation of the Government of Bombay to the Government of India that the stipend be restored, on certain conditions, due to the influence and power the Sultan possesses, and the dependence of the welfare and prosperity of Aden on the maintenance of good relations between the British Government and the Chiefs of the interiorThe authorisation of the restoration of the stipend by the Government of IndiaThe Governor of Bombay authorising the continuance of the stipend to the successor of Sultan Mahomed Houssain Fudthel, following news of the latter’s death, as it was intended that the stipend originally granted in 1839 should be a hereditary grantThe Government of Bombay instructing Haines that in consideration of the contrition shown by the late Sultan of Lahedge for his past conduct, the payment of the stipend to his successor will be resumed, upon the new Sultan personally waiting on Haines and entering into a similar engagement to the one concluded with the Sultan of Lahedge on 11 February 1843, and a clause being added to this bond stating that in the event of the Chief of Lahidge violating at any time the terms of the engagement, the stipend will be irrevocably endedThe Government of Bombay also directing that Haines should take the opportunity to obtain a suitable engagement from the Sultan to revise the transit duties levied in his territories, in a manner least discouraging to trade.The enclosures consist of the following: correspondence between Malet and Haines; letters from Malet to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor General; a letter to Malet from the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India; minutes of the Government of Bombay; and a summary by Malet of the proceedings of Government in regard to the stipends granted to the Sultan of Lahedge and some of the other ‘influential Chiefs’ in the vicinity of Aden after its capture by British troops in January 1839, including a copy of the agreement between Haines and the Sultan dated 11 February 1843.Physical description: 1 item (29 folios)
7. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 102 of 1847, dated 15 December 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-9 and are dated 29 November to 15 December 1847.Enclosure Nos. 3-4 consist of two letters from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, reporting news from Aden, including:The neighbourhood of Aden remaining ‘tranquil’, due to Sultan Hamed ibn Abdulla Foutheli [Aḥmad bin Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] declining to ratify an agreement made between his brother and Hydra ibn Maidee [Shaikh Ḥaydarah bin Mahdī] of Bir Ahmed [Bi’r Aḥmad] for assistance in plundering the Abdali kafilas [caravans] entering AdenSheil writing to Hydra ibn Maidee and cautioning him against any such ‘outrage and breach of faith’ which would interfere with the commerce of AdenNo new cases of smallpox occurring since Haines’s last letterThe cool weather during the month of NovemberThe death Sultan M Houssain Fudthel [Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-'Abdalī] on 29 November.Enclosure No. 4 includes enclosed copies of translated letters from Ahmed M’Houssain Fudthel [Aḥmad bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī] and his brothers, and from their father Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel to Haines, regarding the Sultan delegating to his sons responsibility for securing the roads, and the sons requesting the restoration of the stipend formerly paid to their father. This enclosure also includes a letter in reply from Haines to Sultan Ahmed Fudthel (following the death of his father), expressing his pleasure at the brothers commencing to secure the roads, stating that he has written to the Government of Bombay regarding the stipend, and offering his condolences on the death of Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel.Enclosures 5-6 consist of a minute of the Government of Bombay and a letter from Malet to Haines, regarding the approval of the Government of Bombay of Haines’s actions following the death of the late Sultan of Lahedge, requesting Haines to express the regret of Government to the family of the deceased, and informing Haines that the question of the restoration of the pension of the Sultan of Lahedge has been referred to the Governor-General, but he has not yet replied.Enclosure No. 7 is a letter from Malet to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Henry Miers Elliot, forwarding copies of the correspondence with Haines relating to the death of the Sultan of Lahedge.Numbers 8-9, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Timesand the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 15 December 1847, are not included in this item (a note dated 30 October 1906 states that they are missing).Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)