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Herat Affairs [‎148r] (19/20)

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 139-148

The record is made up of 1 item (10 folios). It was created in 8 Nov 1856. 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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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 55 of 1856, dated 8 November 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 1 to 3 November 1856.

They consist of letters from the Government of India to the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, and minutes of the Government of India. The enclosures relate to: the reported desire of the Ameer of Cabool, Dost Mahomed Khan [Amīr of Kabul, Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy] for the Government of India to muster and pay the troops which the Ameer would provide whilst they are employed against the Persian [Iranian] force at Herat, and for a meeting with the British authorities; and a proposed subsidy to be paid to the Ameer if he engages in operations at Herat.

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IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 139-148
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Herat Affairs
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139r:148v
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