Zanzibar Affairs

IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 159-164

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The record is made up of 1 item (6 folios). It was created in 12 Apr 1861. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .

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Enclosures nos. 3-6 to dispatch no. 12 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 April 1861. The enclosures are dated December 1860 to April 1861. No date of receipt given.

The enclosures consist of reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, HM Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, informing the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. that a French religious mission had arrived in Zanzibar, and that the Sultan of Zanzibar had handed over a slave trading vessel to a British warship. The reports are accompanied by resolutions of the Honourable Board.

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Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, Vol 144

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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/5/506, ff 159-164
Former external reference(s): No. 12
Date(s): 12 Apr 1861 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects: Slave tradePolitical intelligence
Places: Zanzibar
People & organisations: Political Agent and Consul

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Reference: IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 159-164
Title: Zanzibar Affairs
Pages: 159r:164v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
Usage terms: Open Government Licence