Author
the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran]
Publication Date
Mar 1828 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
eng,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/L/PS/9/71/193
Record ID
vdc_100038378586.0x000437
Library Location
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.
Date
Mar 1828 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Bond, in Persian, granted by the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran], Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās
Mīrzā
A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’.
Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir (IOR/L/PS/9/71/193 (1)), and an English translation (IOR/L/PS/9/71/193 (2)), dated in the month of Shaban [Shaʿbān] or March 1828. The bond states that should the British Government pay 200,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
towards the reparations owed by Persia as part of the peace treaty ending the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], the Persian Government will abrogate and consider as annulled the third and fourth articles of the Definitive Treaty existing between Britain and Persia.
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter 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.
of the East India Company of 12 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/191).
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