Persia Affairs [‎41r] (5/38)

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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. , 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 4 of 1850, dated 10 January 1850.

The enclosed papers, dated 17 October to 17 November 1849, concern affairs in Persia [Iran]. They consist of correspondence between: William Taylour Thomson, British Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran; Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farrant, Acting British Chargé d'Affaires (en route to Tehran); Viscount Palmerston [Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston], British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and Lieutenant-Colonel William Fenwick Williams, British Commissioner for the Turco [Ottoman Iraq]-Persian Frontier Commission.

Several matters are covered by the papers, including:

• The unsettled state of affairs in Persia, including rebellion in Khorasan, the murder of the Deputy Governor in Ispahan [Isfahan], and the difficulty of administering the provinces
• Relations between the Persian Government and the Muslim clergy, in particular between the Prime Minister and the 'chief priest' [Emām-e Jom‘a] in Tehran
• Progress of a commission to settle the Turco-Persian frontier.

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