Aden Affairs

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This item comprises 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 20 of 1847, dated 16 February 1847. The enclosures are dated 30 December 1846-13 February 1847.

The item comprises communications between the governments of Bombay and India and their respective Military Departments, and the Military Board, Bombay. Also included are minutes of the President and Governor and members in Council, Bombay.

The papers chiefly relate to the following two matters:

• The refusal of Captain James Kilner, Executive Engineer, Aden, to produce, at the private requisition of Captain Samuel Bettesworth Haines, 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. , Aden, for the inspection of Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, the plans of the Aden Defences, including copies of correspondence of Kilner, Haines, Blackwood and Lieutenant-Colonel C W Grant the Superintending Engineer at Aden, and discussion by the authorities in Bombay as to whether Kilner was discourteous and the degree of blame in the matter to be attributed to Haines
• Approval by the authorities in Bombay of the report by Grant detailing the measures he has directed to be adopted to prevent the recurrence of damage to the town of Aden by future falls of rain (ff 445-447), and a tracing of his original sketch of the ‘Native town of Aden showing the proposed drainage’ (catalogued as sub-item IOR/L/PS/5/449, f 451).

The last two enclosures, the Bombay Times summary of Intelligence and Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier ,are noted as ‘Missing 30.10.1906’.

Extent and format

1 item (26 folios)

It is part of

'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 87

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/449

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/5/449, ff 428-453

Former external reference(s)

No. 20 of 1847

History of this record

Date(s)

16 Feb 1847 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

Aden

People & organisations

Political AgentGovernment of BombayGovernment of India

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