'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 74

Content

The volume consists of Enclosures to Despatches to the East India Company Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. , dated 31 March-1 May 1845. The despatches themselves are not included in the volume.

The enclosures cover various events in Aden, India and Persia [Iran].

Extent and format

1 volume (569 folios)

It is grouped into

‘Affairs of Aden’

54 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 2-28

Request by Mahomed Akbar Khan, former Governor of Jalalabad, to settle in Calcutta [Kolkata]

104 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 29-80

Extradition from Goa to British India

556 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 81-356

‘Dispatches received from Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia’

92 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 357-402

‘Dispatches received from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia’

134 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 403-469

‘Affairs of Aden’

56 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 470-497

‘Proposition for augmenting the Bombay Army’

38 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 498-516

‘Fortification of Aden’

104 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/436, ff 517-568

Arrangement

The items are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 569; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 288-569; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, is present in parallel between ff 228-287, and has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.

Written in

English and Portuguese in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/5/436

History of this record

Date(s)

31 Mar 1845-1 May 1845 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

East India Company, Court of Directors, Secret CommitteeGovernment of Bombay, Political Department

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