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'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [226v] (452/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 folios). It was created in 1908. 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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374
Your own allowance is fixed at present at 500
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
per month exclu
sive of your professional allowance which you may also from time to time
draw on this Government for the amount of at the same rate as if employed
in the Eield; both commencing from the 8th instant.
The Military Paymaster General has been directed to pay you in advance
the sum of 3000 Kupees.
I am,
S ir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Sd.) R. RICHARDS,
Secretary to Government.
CCLXXXIV.
Translation of a letter from Mehedi AliTchan from FaTierauu dated the 21st December 1799
and received the 11th February 1800 per His Majesty's Frigate La Forte.
On the 4th of December 1799 I arrived at the Capital of Taheraun accord-
rewptW ing to his Majesty's commands Ahmed Khan the Kawillur Akasy or master
Teheran. 0 f the ceremonies and Mirza Putteh Ullah the Mustavsey or Accountant
General of all Persia with other principal men came to well-come me and my
entry was attended with most honourable reception an abode being assigned
me in the house of Prime Minister Hadjee Ibrahim Khan when I have
experienced more marks of kindness and regard than I can express.
Upon my interview with His Majesty none were allowed to sit but His
Majesty and me all the rest of the assembly standing even to the Royal Princess
whilst the Chief Nobles and officers of State at the respectful distance of two
or three hundred steps.
His Majesty first made enquiry after the health of the King of Great
Britain and afterwards as to the particulars of the English Government and
the meaning of the term Company and of the well being of the Right Hon'ble
the Governor General and of your all which I delivered answers. The King
then asked in what manner I had happened to go to India and how I had
been treated and esteemed there on the part of English respecting which I
gave suitable explanations and thus passed the first interview.
At my second audience business began to be entered upon and at the
third I fully represented all my objects which have been severally accomplished
and attained according to your wishes to a degree exceeding even whatever
the Right Hon'ble the Governor and you had in view as to which you may
therefore set your mind fully at rest.
Respecting the Erench His Majesty's orders are issuing to all the sea
The Shah's order ports of Persia to be watchful and to seize on whosoever of the depraved Erench
Ve^wlg 1 iirtb^Qulf! 1 ma y ma ke their appearance by sea or land under whatever disguise that they
may not escape with life to which effect the orders are now writing out with
respect to Nassur Khan the Sheikh of Bushire as he belongs to ourselves it
will suffice to forward a copy only to him of these orders the originals of which
Bombay Castle j
The 16th December 1799.
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The volume is Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1908). The work was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha.
The volume consists of a summary of events in the history of the East India Company's involvement with Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , during the period 1600-1800, taken from various printed sources and the selections from the records of the Bombay Government as contained in the present volume (folios 8-39); followed by the selections themselves (folios 40-235); and eleven appendices containing farmans [firmans] and statements of farmans, reports on commerce with Persia and Arabia, a list of the East India Company's agents, and a glossary of words (folios 236-269).
A list of records from which the selections had been made appears on folio 4v.
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- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
A summary of the selections appears between folios 8-39. Those printed in the volume are indicated in the summary with Roman numerals.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 270 on the last folio (there is no back cover). The numbers are written in pencil, are 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. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages.
Pagination: there is also an original printed pagination sequence, numbered ii-lxiii (folios 4-39) and 2-459 (folios 40-269). These numbers appear at the top of each page.
Condition: the volume is largely disbound because of deterioration to the binding, and there is no back cover. There is also significant damage to the edges of the front cover and some of the folios at the beginning of the volume, but this has not led to any loss of text.
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- Title
- 'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:158v, 160r:190v, 191v:201v, 203r:236v, 238r:270v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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