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‘Translation of the Substance of a letter from Hajee Ali Asker to the Kaim Mukam’ [2r] (3/4)
The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in May 1827. 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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Translation of a letter from Hajee Ali Asker [Hāj ʿAlī Aṣghar Shaykh al-Islām], in Khoee [Khoy], to the Kaim Mukam [Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia, Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā'im-Maqām], in the month of Shawal [Shawwāl, c May 1827]. The letter concerns the ongoing war between Persia [Iran] and Russia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], detailing the defeat of the army of Hussan Khan [Ḥasan Qulī Khān Qājār] and the retreat of the Khoee Horse, who Hajee Ali Asker reports will be returned to Hussan Khan.
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 4 in dispatch No. 49, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, 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. of the East India Company of 22 June 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/1).
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- ‘Translation of the Substance of a letter from Hajee Ali Asker to the Kaim Mukam’
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- 1r:2v
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- Shaykh al-Islām, ‘Hāj ʿAlī Aṣghar
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