Bagdad Affairs [‎171v] (14/24)

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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosure to despatches 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 64 of 1840, dated 25 August 1840. The enclosures are dated 4 July-25 August 1840.

They consist of correspondence relating to the Euphrates expedition up to Bagdad [Baghdad, also written this way in some of the correspondence], and the sickness and death from fever of engineers aboard the steam vessels Nitocris and Assyria.

Correspondents include the 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. [Ottoman Iraq] (Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor); the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; and the Commandant of the Euphrates Expedition.

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