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|a IOR/R: India Office Records transferred later through official channels (1623-1985). This class consists of a variety of record types in multiple languages which were not encompassed in IOR/G when it was established. The main areas of origin for the records in IOR/R are India, Nepal, Burma, Malaysia, China, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, Egypt and Aden.
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|a Description: IOR/R/19: Records of East India Company and India Office agencies in Egypt (1832-1870)The surviving records are those of the agency and deputy agency in Egypt, and of the packet agencies at Cairo and Suez. They consist of letters received, which seem fairly complete for the years covered; letters sent, the survival of which seems patchier (and for Suez non-existent); and accounts.27 volumes.Serious efforts to establish a route for the conveyance of mails between India and Britain via the Red Sea and Egypt began in the 1830s. Though the possibility had been considered since the mid-eighteenth century, such factors as sailing conditions in the Indian Ocean, religious objections to Christian vessels in the Red Sea north of Jedda, political instability in Egypt and the prevalence of plague in the Near East had inhibited the establishment of a route which would be speedier than the sea route via the Cape of Good Hope.By the 1830s, greater political stability in Egypt under Mehemet Ali and the arrival of steam navigation removed some objections, and new trading concerns were putting pressure on the East India Company (which lost its trading monopoly to the East in 1833) to establish a shorter route to India. The Company's directors remained dubious because of the capital outlay and the erosion of its control over immigration, which the new route would involve, and the initiative came from the presidency governments in India and from private individuals, notably Thomas Waghorn.Having been forced to reconsider its position, on 27 February 1833 the Company appointed Col. Patrick Campbell, the consul-general in Egypt, as its agent, and on 7 June 1837 it appointed Waghorn (whose private enterprise had already created an overland transit system) as its packet agent subordinate to Campbell. In the same year regular steam packets were established between India and Britain, and the Company set up a network of packet agencies in Egypt and on the Red Sea coast to expedite the mails and maintain supplies of British coal received at Alexandria and transported overland to the Red Sea. By late 1837 the Company's Egyptian establishment consisted of an agency (held at the time, but not in later years, by the consul-general) with a deputy agency, both at Alexandria, a Cairo agency (also held by the consul) and agencies at Suez (which had vice-consular status), Mocha and Jedda, together with Egyptian supporting staff.Custodial history: The records were shipped to the India Office in 1870, appear to have been kept initially with the Marine Records, and in 1893 were transferred to the Egypt and Red Sea Factory Records (G/17). Latterly they were moved to the new classification R/19 because, archivally speaking, they bear more resemblance to the residency and agency records classified under R than to the other Factory Records. The records formerly listed in G/17 were numbered as follows: G/17/18-24 (now R/19/1-7); G/17/25-26 (now R/19/25-26); G/17/27-32 (now R/19/17-22); G/17/33 (now R/19/11); G/17/34 (now R/19/10); G/17/35-36 (now R/19/12-13); G/17/37 (now R/19/27); G/17/38 (now R/19/23); G/17/39 (now R/19/16).This is a truncated version of the full sub-class description for this record. For the full description, please see Margaret Makepeace and Antonia Moon's essay by clicking on the 'More information' link in the Class Description field above.
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