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'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [83v] (168/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. 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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136 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
the Ban-dad Pachalic, and His Highness solicited that Commander Lynch
might be appointed to the charge of the vessel for which he had applied.
This application was referred by this Government on the 18th May 1843
for the orders of the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General of India, with
the remark that even if it should be deemed expedient by His Lordship
to comply with the requisitions of the Pacha, the services of Commander
Lynch could not, " in consequence of the present paucity of officers m the
Indian Navy/' be spared. In reply, this Government was informed in a
letter from Mr. Secretary Thomason, dated the 6th July 1843, that the
Pacha's application was one which could not be complied with, and was
of a nature that Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor ought not to have trans
mitted to Government.
303 On the 29th June 1843, the Secret Commitee forwarded to
this Government copy of a letter from a Mr. Thomas Stirling residing
at Sheffield, the Agent in England for Messrs. Hector & Co., merchants
at Bagdad, stating that the application of the Pacha for a steamer had
created considerable excitement amongst the trading community, and
complaining of the general conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Tay lor m
matters of trade. copy of Mr. Stirling's letter was on receipt for
warded to Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor for his explanation, and a copy of
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.
's communication was on the same day forwarded
by this Government to the Government of India, with the remark that
this Government was of opinion that the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
in Turkish
Arabia had for a long time past been maintained on a scale far more
expensive than was necessary, and that all the objects which either Her
Maiesty's Government or the Hon'ble East India Company can desire
in that quarter could be attained either by an Assistant to the Resident
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
being stationed at Bussorah, or by the appointment
of a Consul to Her Majesty, on something of the same footing as Her
Maiesty's Consul in the territories of the Imam of Muscat, by which
arrangement it was observed a saving might be made of about two-thirds
of the expense at present incurred. In reply this Government was in
formed in a letter from Mr. Secretary Thomason, dated the 16th
September 1843, that the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General of India
in Council was not prepared to say that the arrangement above suggested
mio>ht not be worthy of adoption at some f uture period, but that at the
present moment when it was of so much importance to preserve peace
between Persia and Turkey, which so many circumstances had tended to
exasperate against each other. His Lordship in Council had deemed a
different arrangement most conducive to the public interests, and that
considering it to be a matter of extreme urgency that the British Gov
ernment should be represented at Bagdad by an officer possessed of its
confidence. His Lordship in Council had appointed Major Rawlmson,
C.B., to the situation of
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
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
in super-
session of Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor.
304 This Government was at the same time furnished with copy
of a letter which had on the same day (16th September 1843) under the
orders of the Right Hon'ble the Governor-Genral of India in Council
been addressed to Major Rawlinson, informing him of his having been
appointed to the above charge, and containing instructions tor his
Guidance in the discharge of the duties devolving on him. In compliance
with a request made to this Government by His Lordship in Council,
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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).
The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to 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. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.
The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.
Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.
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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).
Condition: the volume is disbound and has lost its front cover.
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