British Relations with Dost Mahomed Khan and Herat Affairs

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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign 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 59 of 1856, dated 22 November 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-15 and are dated 14 October to 15 November 1856.

The enclosures consist of correspondence and a minute of the Governor-General of India concerning British relations with Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan of Cabool [Amīr Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy of Kabul], and his intentions regarding sending a military force to Herat.

The main correspondents are the following: the Secretary to the Government of India; the Officiating Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab; and Dost Mahomed Khan.

Extent and format

1 item (36 folios)

It is part of

‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM INDIA’, Vol 148

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/229

Written in

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/5/229, ff 210-245

Former external reference(s)

No. 59 of 1856

History of this record

Date(s)

22 Nov 1856 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Siege of Herat (1856)

Places

Emirate of Herat

People & organisations

Viceroy and Governor-General of India in CouncilDūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy

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British Relations with Dost Mahomed Khan and Herat Affairs, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 210-245, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100152608251.0x000006> [accessed 6 October 2024]

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