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'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1871' [24r] (54/792)
The record is made up of 1 volume (393 folios). It was created in Dec 1870-Dec 1871. 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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provide that our accounts should show the financial results of the
“ Guaranteed” and “ State” Railways as uniformly as possible.
We desire next to represent that it can scarcely be correct to
exhibit the income from Canals as “ Public Works receipts.” Ex
penditure on public works no doubt produces such income, as it
produces other pecuniary profit, but it is not in accordance with the
plan of our accounts to classify receipts upon such considerations.
There appears to us no propriety in crediting Canal receipts together
with the sale of stores and the like, which are really Public Works
recoveries. It will doubtless be proper eventually to assign to
“Canals” or “Irrigation” an independent head on one if not both
sides of our Abstract, and we have this in view. But for several
reasons it is premature to do this now. The annual amount is as yet
small, and it does not represent, according to the belief and intention
of the advocates of expenditure on canals, in any true sense, the
revenue derived from such expenditure. You are aware that it is
argued with much earnestness that no insignificant part of the revenue
which has hitherto been classified as Land Revenue is attributable to,
and ought to appear in our accounts to the credit of “ Irrigation.”
The subject is under our consideration, and it would be inconvenient
to publish any separate figures as Irrigation Revenue until we come
to some conclusion regarding it. Meanwhile it appears to us clear
that the proper place in our Abstract for Canal Revenue is with the
Land Revenue, with which it is immediately connected, and we trust
that we may be permitted to continue so to classify it.
The transfer of Court Fees from the head of “ Stamps ” to that of
“ Law and Justice "was in obedience to the well understood policy
and intention of our Legislature in passing Act VII. of 1870. We
therefore deemed it obligatory on us to make this transfer.
In conclusion, we beg that you will consider that, if there was
inconvenience in these several changes last year, we shall suffer far
greater inconvenience if we are now compelled to retrace our steps,
and revert to the former procedure. We shall be glad to receive
your final instructions on the matters discussed in this Despatch.
If the argument which we have urged should be held by you to justify
our view, we shall follow in our forthcoming Statement the procedure
adopted for the current year; otherwise we are quite prepared to give
effect to your decision.
Foreign Department.
December 21st, No. 255 (Political).
Levy of Nuzzerana in Native States. (See pp. 142 of 1868 and
254 of 1870.)
In your Despatch dated 10th August 1870, on the subject of the
levy of nuzzerana on successions in Native States, you intimate that,
12409. P
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Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the 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. from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1871. The letters are dated December 1870-December 1871. The abstracts each have one of the following titles:
- Abstracts of Letters received from India
- Abstracts of Military Letters received from India
- Abstracts of Letters received from Aden
- Abstracts of Letters received from Bushire [Bushehr]
- Abstracts of Letters received from Aden and Bushire
- Abstracts of Letters received from Bushire and Aden
- Abstracts of Letters received from Zanzibar
- Abstracts of Letters received from Zanzibar and Bushire
- Abstracts of Letters received from Zanzibar, Bushire and Aden
- Abstracts of Secret Letters received from India.
Each abstract contains summaries of one or more letters from the specified source, each with a title giving the subject of the letter. Letters from India are divided within each abstract by the branch or department of the Government of India they originated from. The correspondence covers issues including:
- Pay, pensions, recruitment, and other personnel issues in the Indian Civil and Military establishments
- Revenue, expenditure, and taxation
- Public works, including: roads; railways including proposed railways to Persia [Iran] and the head of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; prisons; barracks; irrigation; canals; harbours; and land reclamations
- Issues concerning Princely States, including: debts; allowances; internal administration; and police action on the borders of Marwar and Serohi [Sirohi]
- Land issues, including land revenue settlements and forestry
- Telegraphy
- Issues concerning emigration from India to British Guiana [Guyana], Grenada, Penang, and French colonies
- Military affairs, including: the reorganisation, supply, accommodation, and discipline of military units; naval deployments; and harbour defences in Aden and Bombay
- Education
- Banking
- Affairs on the Northwest Frontier, including raids by the Wuzeerees [Wazīrī tribe] and frontier policy in Beloochistan [Baluchistan]
- Affairs on the Eastern [Northeast] Frontier, including: defensive arrangements; frontier defences in British-occupied Arracan [Rakhine] and Tenasserim [Tanintharyi] in Burmah [Myanmar/Burma]; raids on tea plantations in Cachar, Sylhet, Tipperah [Tripura], and Munnipore [Manipur] by members of the Looshai [Mizo] tribes; and arrangements for a military expedition against the Looshai
- Affairs in Persia, including: frontier relations with Turkey [Ottoman Empire] and with Afghanistan concerning Seistan [Sistan]; trade issues in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; famine and prohibitions on grain export
- Affairs in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, in particular civil conflict leading to the accession of Syud Toorkee [Turkī bin Sa’īd Āl Bū Sa’īd] to the throne and potential threats to Syud Toorkee’s power
- Affairs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabian Peninsula, including: conflict in Nejd [Emirate of Najd, also written here as Nujd] between Saood [Sa’ūd bin Fayṣal Al Sa’ūd] and Abdullah [‘Abdullāh bin Fayṣal Al Sa’ūd]; a Turkish [Ottoman] expedition to Nejd, the Turkish occupation of Lahsa [Al Hasa], and the raising of the Turkish flag in Guttur [Qatar]; and the settlement of Odeyd [Khor al-Udayd], claimed by Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi], by an independent tribe
- Affairs in and around Aden Settlement, including: the capture of Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] by the Aseeris [Emirate of ‘Asir]; relations with neighbouring polities, in particular Lahej [Laḥij Sultanate] and the Foodlees [Faḍlī Sultanate]; the security of roads; and suspected Turkish designs in Yemen
- Affairs in Zanzibar, including the accession of Syud Burgash [Sayyid Barghash bin Sa’īd Āl Bū Sa’īd] to the throne and his relations with Britain and Muscat and the slave trade
- Affairs in East Africa, including suspected Turkish designs on Berbera and an attack on a British ship by the Majerteen [Mājertīn Sultanate]
- Civil conflict in Affghanistan [Afghanistan] between Yakoob Khan [Muḥammad Ya’qūb Khān] and the Ameer [Amīr Shīr ‘Alī Khān], the flight of refugees to India, and Russian overtures to the Ameer
- Relations with Burmah, including trade relations, proposed routes to China, and arms imports
- Exploration of the route from Ladak [Ladakh] to Yarkund [Yarkant].
The primary correspondents are:
- The Government of India
- The Viceroy and Governor-General of India
- The Resident in Aden
- The Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
- The Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Zanzibar.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (393 folios)
- Arrangement
The abstracts are arranged in roughly chronological order. A detailed index of subjects, places and people mentioned in the correspondence is included on folios 381-391.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 393; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.
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- 'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1871'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:392v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence