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'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1873' [‎90v] (187/670)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (332 folios). It was created in Dec 1872- Dec 1873. 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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128
receive a strong stimulus; while the difficulty with regard to the
import duty on the foreign opium, which would be great under the
mixed system, would hardly exist were the whole placed under
the Government monopoly, imported opium being easily distinguished
from that sold by Government.
The Lieutenant Governor of Bengal submits that, after the with
drawal of the Seharunpore agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. as a failure, the Bengal system
should not now he introduced in the Punjab. He does not think that
we can hope to get good opium there in any quantity at the price we
offer for it.
Having regard to these reports and opinions, we consider it in
expedient to take any further measures for the extension of the culti
vation of the poppy in the Punjab and Sind on Government account,
or under a system of advances such as is in operation in Bengal and
the North-West Provinces. We are not however unwilling to allow
the cultivation in those provinces in order to the exportation of the
produce to China on payment of a fixed duty of Rs. 600 a chest, on
the system applicable to the opium produced in Malwa and exported
from Bombay.
We have requested the opinion of 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. as
to whether there is any reason to fear untoward consequences from
the possible substitution of the poppy for food grains in Sind.
Foreign Department.
February Sis/, No. 36 (Political).
Disturbances on the Turco-Persian Frontier. (See p. 38.)
[Her Majesty’s Consul-General at Bagdad, having been directed
to act as referee between the Turkish and Persian Commissioners in
the question of the guard-house on the frontier, arrived at Solimaniyeh
on the 14th October. He expressed a hope that the Commissioners
would he able to adjust all difficulties without reference to him, so
that the credit of an amicable arrangement might rest with them, but
he saw at once that there was no hope of this, both being evidently
inclined to rely upon him for arbitration. After much procrastination
and discussion, especially on the Persian side, Colonel Herbert stated
his opinion (1) that the Persians should consent to the temporary
le-consti uction of the guard-house, provision being made for its future
demolition by the 4 urks themselves should the land eventually be
proved to be either Persian territory or left under dispute; and (2)
that the Turks should leave in the hands of the Persian authorities the
punishment of the incendiaries and the satisfaction of the honour of
the Ottoman Government. After some demur, this opinion was
agreed to. Colonel Herbert pointed out to the Persian Commissioner

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Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the 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. from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1873. The letters are dated December 1872-December 1873. The abstracts each have one of the following titles:

  • Abstracts of Letters received from India
  • Abstracts of Letters received from Sir B Frere
  • Abstracts of Letters received from Aden
  • Abstracts of Military Letters received from India
  • Abstracts of Secret Letters received from India
  • Abstracts of Letters received from Zanzibar, Bushire [Bushehr] and Aden
  • Abstracts of Letters received from Bushire and Aden
  • Abstracts of Letters received from Bushire.

Each abstract contains summaries of one or more letters from the specified source, each with a title giving the subject of the letter. Letters from India are divided within each abstract by the branch or department of the Government of India they originated from. The correspondence covers issues including:

  • Arrangements for preserving the historical records of the Government of India
  • Judicial affairs, including the detention of Kooka [Namdhari/Kuka Sikh] insurgents as political prisoners and the question of jurisdiction over British subjects in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
  • Land issues, including plantations of tea, cinchona, and opium poppy, exploration for coal deposits, and land revenue settlements
  • Revenue, expenditure, and taxation
  • Pay, pensions, recruitment, and other personnel issues in the Indian Civil and Military establishments
  • Public works, including railways, canals and irrigation
  • Education
  • Telegraphy, including international telegraphic links with India
  • Affairs concerning Princely States, including issues of succession, internal administration, the education of heirs, debts, and railways
  • Anticipated famine in Bengal
  • Issues concerning emigration from India to British, French, and Dutch colonies, including the proposed emigration of Indian labourers to Fiji
  • Military affairs, including the organisation and supply of military units
  • Military operations, including an expedition in the Garo Hills and counter-insurgency operations against the Moplahs [Mappilas] in Malabar
  • Affairs in Persia, including: requests from the Persian Government for seconded Prussian and French army officers; frontier disputes between Persia and Turkey; the arbitration of the Mekran [Makran] and Seistan [Sistan] borders; a proposed railway from the Caspian Sea to Teheran [Tehran]
  • Affairs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabian Peninsula, including: conflict in Nejd [Emirate of Najd] between Saood [Sa’ūd bin Fayṣal Al Sa’ūd] and Abdullah [‘Abdullāh bin Fayṣal Al Sa’ūd]; the Turkish [Ottoman] occupation of Lahsa [Al Hasa] and suspected Turkish designs on the Gulf coast; and the slave trade
  • Affairs in and around Aden Settlement, in particular Turkish activity in the region
  • Affairs in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, in particular the consolidation of and challenges to the rule of the Sultan Syud Toorkee [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa’īd Āl Bū Sa’īd]
  • Affairs in Zanzibar, including the slave trade, the Zanzibar Subsidy to Muscat, and contact with the mission of Dr David Livingstone in Central Africa
  • Affairs in the Red Sea, including the illegal destruction of dhows by the British ship Thetis and suspected Egyptian designs on Berbera,
  • Sir Bartle Frere’s mission to investigate the slave trade in East Africa, negotiations with the Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat for treaties to suppress the slave trade, and recommendations for other anti-slavery measures
  • Affairs 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], including the administration of Reouf Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Muḥammad Ra'ūf Pāshā], a steamer service operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company between Bussora [Basra] and Bagdad [Baghdad], and a prohibition on the export of Arab horses
  • Affairs in Central Asia, including: arbitration of the northern border of Affghanistan [Afghanistan]; discussions with Russia concerning spheres of influence in the region; affairs in Eastern Turkestan [Xinjiang] and the proposed expedition of Thomas Forsyth to Yarkund [Yarkant]; a Russian expedition against Khiva; the visit to India of envoys from Affghanistan and Bokhara [Bukhara]
  • Affairs in Burmah [Burma/Myanmar]
  • Affairs in Siam [Thailand], Nipal [Nepal], and Thibet [Tibet]
  • The Panthay Rebellion in China.

The primary correspondents are:

Extent and format
1 volume (332 folios)
Arrangement

The abstracts are arranged in roughly chronological order. A detailed index of subjects, places and people mentioned in the correspondence is included on folios 323-329.

Physical characteristics

​Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 332; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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Title
'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1873'
Pages
front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:57v, 58ar:58av, 58r:332r
Author
East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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