Papers Relating to Disputes and Relations between the Bussora [Basra] Residency and the Pasha of Bagdad [Baghdad]
IOR/G/29/32, ff 483-508
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The record is made up of 1 item (26 folios). It was created in 23 May 1794-3 Jul 1798. 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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Papers relating to disputes between the Bacha of Bagdad [ Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Baghdad] and 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. at Bussora [Basra] which resulted in the removal of the East India Company Factory An East India Company trading post. from Bussora to Grain [Kuwait] and the establishment of a 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. at Baghad in 1798, with Harford Jones as Resident.
The papers include a 'Bussora Abstract', undated and unsigned, constituting a detailed report of events between 1791 and 1794 relative to the disputes, and letters from Soliman Bacha [Sulayman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. the Great] of Bagdad and Lord William Wyndham Grenville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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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/G/29/32, ff 483-508
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- Papers Relating to Disputes and Relations between the Bussora [Basra] Residency and the Pasha of Bagdad [Baghdad]
- Pages
- 493r:496v
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- Suleimān Pasha the Great
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- IOR/G/29/32, ff 483-508
- Title
- Papers Relating to Disputes and Relations between the Bussora [Basra] Residency and the Pasha of Bagdad [Baghdad]
- Pages
- 483r:492v, 497r:508v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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