IO Islamic 3785 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Report on Hīrā Laʿl in relation to the transactions of the kachahrī-yi bakhshīgarī

Dated: 2 Rajab 1259/29 July 1843

Torn and large areas of text lost

Beginning with an Arabic quote, purporting to be a prophetic ḥadīs̲

Lengthy petition submitted by Sayyid Ḥāfiẓ Bismillāh Shāh to an unnamed ruler to resume payment of daily stipend

Per diem of 5 rupees set by Shujāʿ al-Dawlah from the privy purse for appellant’s grandfather, Sayyid Zāhid ʿAlī Shāh

Jannat Ārāmgāh continued to pay a per diem of 2 rupees, continuing until the period of Khuld Manzil

Firdaws Manzil looked at the original deeds and charters and issued a royal decree or farmān after appellant registered in the court or kachihrī of the Doab under Munavvar al-Dawlah. Payment ceased in this period and was not released

In present reign, issue of royal decree to the munshī Ratan Singh had no effect

Appeal for speedy relief through the issue of a royal ḥukm'nāmah

Included is a copy of the farmān of Firdaws Manzil (not included in present scroll)

Not dated

Seal: vāqif-i sirr-i kalām Allāh/Qārī Ḥāfiẓ Bismillāh 1256/1840-1 (additional text around edges)

Ground of square-cut gold leaf arranged in horizontal bands

Petition submitted by Sālār Bakhsh the qānūn'gū of parganah Ḥussāmpūr on behalf of Vazīr ʿAlī to the vazīr-i aʿẓam or prime minister (not named) complaining about the cruelty of Rājah Darsan Singh, nāẓim or governor of chaklah Bahraich and Gondah, as well as Īsharī Singh the commander dismissed earlier

Not dated

Seal: Sālār Bakhsh 1257/1841-2

Petition submitted by ʿĀbid ʿAlī and Ḥasan ʿAlī, the sons of the late Muʾmin Bayg-i Banārasī, to an unnamed ruler

Details the wood and brick construction to their home adjacent to the Imāmbārah of Ḥasan ʿAlī Khān Bahādur amounting to 2300 rupees

Requests permission to renovate derelict shops and land from the house of Hindu Singh, next to the tomb of the Jannat Ārāmgāh, to pay off debts and relieve homelessness

Not dated

Seals: 1) ʿĀbid ʿAlī 1258/1842-3; 2) Ḥasan ʿAlī

Petition submitted by Shīr Muḥammad Khān Qandahārī to the vazīr-i aʿẓam or prime minister (not named) regarding the non-payment of a debt for 1000 rupees by Muḥammad Hārūn Khān and ʿAbd al-Hādī Khān, sons of the late Sulaymān Khān

Not dated

Seal: ʿabduhu Shīr Muḥammad 1254/1838-9

Petition submitted by ʿAlī Aḥmad to the vazīr-i aʿẓam or prime minister (not named) giving notice of a change in name and title

Not dated

Partial seal impression: ʿAlī Muḥammad 12[…?]

Transcript of a warrant of seizure for 200 bīgah of firm land for the claimant Shahāmat Khān ibn Mahābat Khān, resident of qaṣbah Gopamau, landholder or zamīn'dār for the area of Hindunagar, z̤ilaʿ Pandroh, an ʿamlah of parganah Mohammadi, against the defendant Holas, the servant of Muftī Javād al-Dawlah, and tenant of the said location

Contents dated: 17 Muḥarram 1258/28 February 1842, faṣlī 1249

Seal of office reproduced with date: 1253/1837-8

Inscribed on verso: ‘naql qalamī shud ṣ[aḥīḥ]’

Transcript of a shuqqah or royal letter issued in the name of the Vazīr al-Mamālik Navvāb Amīn al-Dawlah ʿUmdat al-Mulk Imdād Ḥusayn Khān Bahādur Z̲ū al-Fiqārjang addressed to the wife of Muntaẓim al-Dawlah (not named), the keeper or nāẓimah of the palaces of Khairabad and Mohammadi

Contents dated: 28 Z̲ī qaʿdah 1258/31 December 1842

Attested above: ‘muṭābiq ba-aṣl’

Inscribed on verso: 1) ‘dīdah shud ṣ[aḥīḥ]’; 2) ‘naql kardah shud ṣ[aḥīḥ]’

Transcript of a petition from Shahāmat Khān, landholder or zamīn'dār for the area of Hindunagar

Content mentions the date 24 Ram. 1258/29 October 1842

Not dated

Petition submitted by Munavvar ʿAlī to the vazīr-i aʿẓam or prime minister (not named) appealing for a shuqqah preventing the interference of Munʿim Bayg the kūtvāl and Ḥafīẓ Allāh the dārūghah of the supreme court in a legal case with traders or dūkāndārān va byūpāriyān

Not dated

Seal: Munavvar ʿAlī ba-ḥukm-i Khudā shud 1259/1843-4

Darkhvāst or application for the valuation and promise of land

Mentions the names Muḥammad Ramaz̤ānī the brother of Makkā the khayyāṭ and Ḥusayn Bakhsh

Not dated

Contents mention the faṣlī dates: 1250 and 1252

Seal: Gulz̲ārī Mal 1258/1842-3

Petition submitted by Ḥusayn Bakhsh the chaklah'dār of Haidargarh to the vazīr-i aʿẓam or prime minister (not named) in relation to the siege of taʿluqah'dāh Shīv Amar Singh’s fortress

Dated: 4 Shavvāl 1259/28 October 1843

Seal: Ḥusayn Bakhsh 125[?]

Petition submitted by Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir to an unnamed ruler, giving notice of certain unspecified actions deemed necessary in the Supreme Court

Not dated

Seal: Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir 1223/1808-9

Petition submitted by Bhola Nath to an unnamed ruler relating to revisions in the calculations of salaries

Not dated

Seal: Bhūlā Nāth 1258/1842-3

Petition submitted by Mīr Inʿām Ḥusayn to an unnamed ruler recording the career, promotion, and monthly income of Ḥakīm Ghaz̤anfar

Not dated

Seal: Mīr Inʿām Ḥusayn 1243/1827-8

Petition submitted by ʿĀshiq ʿAlī to an unnamed minister explaining his absence for six days due to ill health

Not dated

Seal: ʿĀshiq ʿAlī 1239/1823-4

Lengthy petition submitted by Ṣaff Shikan Khān Bahādur to an unnamed minister requesting an order addressed to Mirzā Vaṣī ʿAlī Khān in order to gain admittance to the royal presence for an hour or two

Not dated

Seal: Ṣaff Shikan Khān Bahādur 1250/1834-5

Petition submitted by ʿAlī Muḥammad the sālār to an unnamed ruler complaining of the quality and level of staffing in the Paltan-i ʿAbbās

Detailed breakdown of post holders’ names and commissions follows on parts 19 and 20

Not dated and lacking dated seal impression

Parts 18, 19, and 20 form part of one document split over 3 sheets originally attached together as a single scroll, subsequently incorporated into present scroll

Continuation of text from part 18, listing the names of those retained and expelled

Continues on part 20

Not dated

Parts 18, 19, and 20 form part of one document split over 3 sheets originally attached together as a single scroll, subsequently incorporated into present scroll

Continuation of text from parts 18 and 19, listing the names of those retained and expelled

Dated: 29 Z̲ī qaʿdah 1258/1 January 1843

Seal: ʿAlī Muḥammad 1258/1842-3

Parts 18, 19, and 20 form part of one document split over 3 sheets originally attached together as a single scroll, subsequently incorporated into present scroll

Report on Rājah Prithī Pati Singh, the taʿluqah'dār of Mangapur, near Nawabganj, Rahli

Not dated and lacking dated seal impression