Aden Affairs [‎306v] (64/156)

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This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch 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 106 of 1846, dated 15 September 1846. The enclosures are dated 17 August-15 September 1846.

The papers chiefly cover the military and logistical response to a potential attack on or near Aden by the followers of ‘the fanatic’ Syud Ismaiel [Sayyid Ismā‘īl, also spelled Syed and Sayud, and Ismail, in this item].

The principal correspondents are: Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, 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. , Aden; 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. ; the Military Board, Bombay; and the Secretary to the Government of India. Also included are numerous minutes of the Governor and President and the members in Council, Bombay, and enclosures to despatches.

The papers notably cover and include the following:

• The movements of Syud Ismaiel and the repulsion of two attacks, on 17 and 26 August, by his supporters on the outposts and near the field works of Aden, including translated copies of two letters, and a short note in both Arabic and English, received by Haines from Sayud Ismail with Haines’s replies (ff 298-299, 308-311)
• The measures undertaken for the conveyance of military stores and food supplies to Aden, including the Military Board’s correspondence with the Commissariat General and the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, and details of items conveyed to Aden on the vessel Queen (ff 340-343, 350)
• A discussion of the possible options for augmenting the military force at Aden during the relief of the regiments currently there, including a proposal by the Commander in Chief of the Army, Poona [Pune] (ff 330-331)
• A discussion of, and responses to, Haines’s suggestions 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. which include: an advance, by an augmented Aden force, into the interior to destroy the properties of ‘those chiefs who have tauntingly annoyed us’; a blockade on the ports of the ‘Fouthili [Faḍlī] and Agrabi [‘Akrabī] chiefs’ during the trading season by the addition of a small armed iron steamer to the Red Sea Squadron; and a bugalow laden with hay to be towed on the next steamer to Aden (ff 305-306).

The last two enclosures, the Bombay Times summary of Intelligence and The Overland Bombay Courier , are noted as ‘Missing 29.10.1906’.

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1 item (78 folios)

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

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