Reports on Turkish Arabia
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 135-142
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The record is made up of 1 item (8 folios). It was created in 1 Aug 1871-9 Nov 1871. 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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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 10 October 1871.
The papers consist of intelligence reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Herbert, Consul General at Baghdad, and 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. . The reports include: the Turkish occupation of El-Hasa [Al Hasa]; the revolt of the Shammar Arabs; and a memorandum of deaths from cholera at Baghdad and Kerbella [Karbala].
The Enclosures are dated 1-3 August 1871.
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 135-142
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- Political No. 165 of 1871
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- 1 Aug 1871-9 Nov 1871 (CE, Gregorian)
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- British Consul, Baghdad
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- IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 135-142
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- Reports on Turkish Arabia
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- 135r:142v
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