Bagdad Affairs

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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.

Extent and format

1 item (22 folios)

It is part of

‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, VOL 24

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/386

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/5/386, ff 165-176

Former external reference(s)

No. 64 of 1840

History of this record

Date(s)

25 Aug 1840 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

River navigationDeath

Places

Bagdad

People & organisations

Political Agent, Turkish ArabiaSuperintendent of the Indian Navy

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