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Intelligence from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil Concerning Affairs in Persia [Iran] [383v] (16/30)
The record is made up of 1 item (13 folios). It was created in Feb 1839. 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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The letters convey intelligence of the movements of the Shah of Persia [Iran]; the Shah’s purported aggressive intentions regarding Afghanistan or ‘Khorassan’ (chiefly Herat), and Turkey [Ottoman Empire] (chiefly Bagdad [Baghdad] and Azerbijan [Azerbaijan]); conditions in Herat since the ending of the Persian siege; Anglo-Persian diplomatic relations notably in context of the Shah’s connections with Russia.
The intelligence is provided to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the 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. , by Sheil, Chargé d’Affaires, British Mission Erzeroom [Erzurum, Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. ], incorporating information from his Persian contacts and Edward William Bonham.
There is a note before the papers commence stating: ‘Enclosures in Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Letter No. 61, dated 15th May 1839, are missing from this collection’.
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- IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 377-390
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- Intelligence from Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil Concerning Affairs in Persia [Iran]
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- 377r:377v, 378ar:378av, 378r:390v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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