Preparations for the First Anglo-Afghan War [‎370v] (246/1272)

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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Governor-General of India, Allahabad, Secret Department, to the East India Company 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 32 of 1842, dated 17 August 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-159 and are dated 17 July-16 August 1842.

The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to political and military affairs in: Bameean [Bamian], Cabool [Kabul], Jellalabad [Jalalabad], Candahar [Kandahar], Beloochistan [Baluchistan], Bokhara [Bukhara], Toorkistan [Turkistan], Kohistan, the North West Frontier, Punjab, Laddakh [Ladakh], and Sinde [Sindh]. Enclosures mainly relate to the East India Company’s diplomatic, military, and logistical preparations in conjunction with regional allies for war in Afghanistan (the First Anglo-Afghan War). Papers additionally cover the transportation to Cabool of camels and cattle through arrangements and agreements with local suppliers; accounts on the hiring of camels by the EIC between 1839-1842; schedules of the duty charged on the cargoes of traders from Sinde and Afghanistan; accounts on the conversion of units of measurement; descriptions of the import and export of goods and commodities to Bombay; descriptions of goods exported from Karachi to Muscat; lists of the traders, bankers and financiers, animal keepers, and traders in enslaved people present in Karachi.

The item includes a sketch map of Shinwaree [Shinwari] Valley on folio 580. There is a note from an unspecified later date on folio 249 stating that enclosure No. 15 is missing, as well as the first folio of the abstract of contents.

The correspondents include: Lord Ellenborough (Governor-General); Thomas Herbert Maddock (Secretary to the Government of India and the Governor-General); General Sir Jasper Nicolls, KCB (Commander-in-Chief of British Forces, Head Quarters, Simla [Shimla]); Lieutenant-Colonel Melville (Secretary to 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. ); Captain Henry Montgomery Lawrence (Assistant Agent to the Governor-General); Major-General William Nott (Commander, Lower Afghanistan and Sinde); Major James Outram ( 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. , Sinde and Baluchistan); Captain E I Brown (Assistant 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. , Sinde and Baluchistan); W F Hammersley (Assistant 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 Charge, Sinde and Baluchistan); Lieutenant-Colonel N Wallace (Commander, Sukkur and Upper Sinde); Captain W C Stather (Staff Officer, Sukkur); R N C Hamilton (Secretary to Lieutenant Governor, North West Provinces); George Clark (Agent to the Governor-General, North West Provinces); Arthur Malet ( 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. , Kutch); Lieutenant-Colonel I Parsons (Deputy Commissary General); Captain G Pope (Assistant Commissary General); and Captain C W Hart (Acting Interpreter, Sinde Residence).

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