Affairs in Persia

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Enclosures no. 2-5 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Governmentof Bombay, dated 24 August 1844. The enclosures are dated 6 March-26 June 1844.

The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran], including:

• Inhabitants of Karrack [Kharg] seeking asylum in Koweit [Kuwait], and a demand by the Governor of Fars for the removal of the British Coal Agent from Karrack
• The departure from Tehran of Persian Agents to Bokhara [Emirate of Bukhara] and Khiva, in return for diplomatic missions previously sent to Tehran from those countries
• The expulsion from Persia of two French clergymen accused of proselytising
• Border negotiations at Erzeroom [Erzurum] between Persia and the Ottoman Empire, and a joint Anglo-Russian request for both governments to send agents to the frontier to ‘restrain the border Chiefs from committing the usual predatory incursions’
• Preparations in Kurachee [Karachi] by Agha Khan Mahlatee [Āghā Khān I], exiled former Governor of Kerman, to lead an assault on Kerman, and a demand from the Government of Persia that the British authorities in Sinde [Sindh] either arrest or exile him
• Reports of an alliance between Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy], Emir of Afghanistan, and Yar Mahomed Khan [Yār Muḥammad Khān ‘Alī Kūzāy], Vizier of Herat
• An account (ff 64-67) by Hajee Mahomed Ali [Ḥājjī Muḥammad ‘Alī], a grandson of the late Shah of Persia Kerreem Khan Zend [Karīm Khān Zand], of an Ottoman attack on Kerbala [Karbala] in which his wife and two eldest children were killed and his two younger children 'carried away [as] captives’ to Damascus, and British attempts to secure their release
• A journey to Bokhara by German missionary Dr Joseph Wolff, and his reports confirming the executions there in July 1842 of Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly.

The primary correspondent is HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran. Other correspondents include: the Prime Minister of Persia; the Foreign Minister of Persia; the Russian Minister in Tehran; Agha Khan Mahlatee; Dr Wolff; and the Emir of Bokhara.

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1 item (114 folios)

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‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 70

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/432

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English in Latin script

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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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Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/5/432, ff 4-117

Former external reference(s)

No. 67 of 1844

History of this record

Date(s)

24 Aug 1844 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

BordersDiplomacyTreaty of Erzerum (1847)Religious conversionAsylum

Places

PersiaSindeErzeroomKerbala

People & organisations

Vizier of HeratMinister for Foreign AffairsEmir of BukharaHM Chargé d'Affaires to IranPrime Minister to the Shah of Persia, Qajar dynastyNative Coal Agent at KarrackKing of AfghanistanCharles StoddartArthur ConollyJoseph WolffMuḥammad Ḥasan Ḥusaynī Maḥallātī

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