Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4349 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Murshidabad and Bengal revenues

Contents

End-of-month revenue accounts (māskabār), with calculations in raqm annotation, for the district (z̤ilʿ) of Murshidabad in the banglah year 1196/1790, with the latest entries dated 1791

Appended at end are two brief tracts on Bengal revenues for the banglah year 1198 Bengali annotations throughout

Some personal seals, such as that of Kishan Charan De

Not foliated; estimated 250 folios approximately

Revenue records (aṣl bāqī), with calculations in raqm annotation, for the province of the Bengal khāliṣah-'i sharīfah, specifically the cities of Murshidabad and Kolkata, in the banglah year 1188

Not foliated; estimated 300 folios approximately

Not dated

Language(s): Persian & English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 250 ff. approx.
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 18th century CE Bengal ; India

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