Bagdad Pachalic Affairs [‎113v] (16/26)

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This item comprises a copy of an enclosure 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 134 of 1846, dated 14 November 1846. The enclosure is dated 8 September 1846.

The enclosure consists of a copy of a despatch from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 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], to Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], relating to affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik]. The despatch is copied to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, and the Governor-General of India, for information.

Rawlinson forwards to Wellesley copies of two letters received from Nejib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā], Governor of Bagdad, which the latter wishes to be transmitted to HM Envoy and Minister at the Court of Tehran. In the letters, Nejib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. solicits the Envoy’s co-operation in persuading the Persian Government to: issue orders for the removal of ‘rebel’ subjects Ahmed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. former ruler of Sulimanieh [Aḥmad Pāshā Bābān of Sulaymaniyah] and Russool Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Rasūl Pāshā], former Governor of Rowanduz [Ruwandiz or Rawandiz], from the Persian frontier town of Ooshney [Oshnaviyeh?]; and to arrange for the appropriate punishment of Abdullah Beg, Sharaf Baini [‘Abdullāh Beg of the Sharaf Baynī tribe, also spelled Sharriff in this item], a Persian subject who previously joined with Ahmed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. in attacking Sulimanieh and who has committed many ‘outrages’ in Turkish [Ottoman] territory in the past few years.

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