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Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, 'Bombay Mutinies Series'
Catalogue reference: IOR/L/PS/6/510-536
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This record is about the Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, 'Bombay Mutinies Series' dating from 1857-1858.
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- IOR/L/PS/6/510-536
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Title (The name of the record)
- Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, 'Bombay Mutinies Series'
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1857-1858
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Description (What the record is about)
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Copies of letters, telegrams, intelligence summaries, reports etc relating to the Indian Mutiny sent home by the Bombay Government with their Secret Letters to London. The enclosures relate to the course of events not only in the Bombay Presidency but in all the major centres of the Mutiny. Many of the papers are annotated in pencil and some are initialled by the President of the Board of Control (Robert Vernon Smith). The list below includes the numbers of the letters to which the enclosures were attached.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a more detailed breakdown of the contents of IOR/L/PS/5/510-536: see Rosemary Seton, 'The Indian 'Mutiny' 1857-58' (British Library, 1986). For Indexes and Registers: see ibid, pp46-49. Seton provides a general guide to OIOC source material on the Indian Mutiny.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 27 volumes
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Unrestricted
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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News of the latest developments in the Indian Mutiny (1857-1858) often reached London first via the Bombay Government which had in the Bombay-Suez steamship service a rapid and reliable means of communication.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/a3bf27e7-37ae-41ea-8ee5-4cbdc9526798/
Series information
IOR/L/PS/5
Secret Correspondence with India
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This record is held at British Library: Asian and African Studies
Within the fonds: IOR/L/PS
Political and Secret Department Records
Within the series: IOR/L/PS/5
Secret Correspondence with India
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Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, 'Bombay Mutinies Series'