Aden Affairs

IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 168-171

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The record is made up of 1 item (4 folios). It was created in 27 Apr 1861. 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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Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 15 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosures are dated 2 April 1861. Received 20 May 1861.

The enclosures consist of intelligence reports on Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and Aden by Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , in charge of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Aden.

The report on Abyssinia covers: a report that Theodore [Emperor Tewodros II] was now de facto ruler of Tigre [Tigray], as well as the rest of Abyssinia; and the need to monitor French naval activity in the Red Sea. The report on Aden refers to complaints of oppression by the Ottoman Governor of Yemen.

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Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, Vol 144

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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/5/506, ff 168-171
Former external reference(s): No. 15
Date(s): 27 Apr 1861 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects: Political intelligence
Places: AdenAbyssinia
People & organisations: First Assistant Resident

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Reference: IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 168-171
Title: Aden Affairs
Pages: 168r:171v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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