Turkish Arabia Affairs [‎87v] (12/36)

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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 8 of 1847, dated 23 January 1847. The enclosure is dated 13 November 1846.

The item comprises despatches 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], forwarding, for the information of 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. and the Governor General of India, copies of his communications with Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], reporting on affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik, also spelled Baghdad Pashalic in this item], with relevant enclosures.

The papers cover the following matters:

1) Welleseley’s enquiry to Rawlinson regarding his knowledge of any cases of the ‘injurious bearing of the Mahomedan law of evidence on the lives and property of H[er]. Majesty’s subjects residing within the limits of the Ottoman Empire’ and Rawlinson’s response incorporating his critical assessment of Islamic religious law in general and the Hanifeh [Hanafi] Code (school of Islamic jurisprudence) (ff 85-88).

2) Orders issued (at the request of Nejib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad]) by the Persian [Iranian] Government to the Prince Governor A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925). of Azerbijan [Iranian Azerbaijan] and the Governor of Ooroomeeya [Urmia, also spelled Orumiyeh in this item] for the removal of the ‘refugee chiefs’ of Sulmanieh [Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Sulimanieh, Sulemanieh and Sooloomanneh in this item] and Rowanduz [Rawandiz, also spelled Rowandiz in this item] from the Turco-Persian frontier.

3) A cholera outbreak within the Baghdad Pashalic, which Rawlinson estimates over the last forty days has killed ‘at least 30,000 souls’ (f 89).

4) The recent ‘outrage’ committed by ‘a party of Persian marauders’ (f 88) (‘the freebooter Abdulla Beg Sharof Baini’ (f 93) [‘Abdullāh Beg Sharaf Baynī, also spelled Sharaf Baine and Shorof in this item], his followers (refugee subjects of Sulemanieh residing in Kermanshah) and a force of Sinjabis [Sanjâbi tribe, also spelled Sinjabees]) on the Wermazier tribe (dependents of the Jaaf [Jaff] tribe), and responses to the situation including:

• A petition by the heads of the Wermazier tribe to Abdulla Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [‘Abdullāh Pāshā] of Sulemanieh
• Abdulla Pasha’s plea to Nejib Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
• Nejib Pasha’s complaint to Rawlinson of the ineffectiveness of Mohib Ali Khan [Muḥibb ʿAlī Khān], Governor of Kermanshah, in restraining, punishing and removing Abdulla Beg ‘from his obnoxious position on the frontier’ (f 94), the insecurity of the frontier Turkish tribes who are ‘harassed and tormented beyond all endurance’ (f 95) and intimation that he would not be able to prevent equally violent reprisals occurring in Persian territory
• Rawlinson’s concerns about the disorganisation on the frontier and suggestion that a complaint needs to be made by the Porte itself in order to make the Persian Government take the matter seriously and put realistic pressure on the Governor of Kermanshah.

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