Bagdad Affairs [‎366r] (21/28)

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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret 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 72 of 1843, dated 2 October 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 1-21 September 1843.

The papers concern the conduct of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bagdad [Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. 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. , i.e. Ottoman Iraq, based in Baghdad] regarding matters of trade, following complaints by British merchants residing in Bagdad that ‘native servants’ from the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. have been carrying out extensive trade, to the detriment of the British merchants’ interests. Also covered is the appointment of Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson as 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. , as successor to Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor. In addition, the papers discuss a request by the Pascha [Pāshā] of Bagdad to have a steam vessel placed at his service.

The correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India and the Chief Secretary to the Government to Bombay.

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