Arms, Ammunition and Specie for Dost Mahomed Khan
IOR/L/PS/5/229, ff 31-34
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The record is made up of 1 item (4 folios). It was created in 8 Oct 1856. 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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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign 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 50 of 1856, dated 8 October 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-5 and are dated 18 September to 1 October 1856.
They consist of correspondence between the Government of India Foreign Department, the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab and 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. , regarding matters including the change of route by which arms and ammunition are to be sent to Kandahar being communicated to Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāy], and specie [money in the form of coins] being sent with flint muskets via the Bolan Pass to Peshawur [Peshawar] for Dost Mahomed Khan.
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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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- No. 50 of 1856
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- 8 Oct 1856 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Arms, Ammunition and Specie for Dost Mahomed Khan
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