Persian Gulf Affairs

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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from 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. , Secret Department, to 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. , Number 82 of 1842, dated 18 July 1842.

The enclosed papers, dated between May and July 1842, comprise minutes, correspondence and reports, and concern affairs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The correspondence is between Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson, Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Military Auditor General, Bombay; Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul and East India Company Agent in the Dominions of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat; 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. ; and the Government of India.

The papers cover several matters, including:

• The British withdrawal from the Island of Karrack [Kharg] and the re-establishment of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire [Bushehr]
• The recommendation that Karrack become a sanatarium for sick Europeans
• The question of compensating the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Shroff following the attack on his house in Bushire in 1838
• Relations with the Wahabees [Wahhābīs] of Nedjd [Najd]
• Affairs of Bahrein [Bahrain]
• Question of where Captain Hamerton should reside within the Imaum of Muscat’s dominions and his efforts to procure suitable quarters at Zanzibar.

A section of the item (ff 251-329) relates to affairs in Persia [Iran] and Central Asia, as well as the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It consists of copies of despatches sent by Sir John McNeill, Envoy to Persia, to the Earl of Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen], Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The papers cover the following matters:

• News of the war in Afghanistan, including intelligence from Herat, Cabool [Kabul], and Candahar [Kandahar], and a translated copy of a letter (ff 282-289) from Mahomed Akber Khan [Muḥammad Akbar Khān], Afghan military leader, giving an account of the killing of William Hay Macnaghten, 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. at Cabool
• The Persian response to the British defeat in Afghanistan
• Relations between Russia and Persia, particularly along the coast of the Caspian Sea
• Delivery of the ratified commercial treaty between Britain and Persia to the Shah
• Affairs in Bokhara [Bukhara], including the suspected execution of the British-employed messenger, Ephrain, suggestions that compensation should be given to his family, and the imprisonment of British officers Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, including a copy of the latter’s journal (ff 300-313)
• William Taylour Thomson’s visit to Merve [Merv].

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1 item (116 folios)

It is part of

'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 48

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/410

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English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

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/5/410, ff 121-350

Former external reference(s)

No. 82 of 1842

History of this record

Date(s)

18 Jul 1842 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Political affairsFirst Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842)International relations

Places

PersiaBokharaAfghanistanPersian GulfKarrack (island)

People & organisations

Political Resident, Persian GulfPolitical Agent and Consul, ZanzibarHM Ambassador to IranArthur ConollyCharles Stoddart

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