IO Islamic 4499 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Revenues and description of Bengal
Contents
Revenue records, in Persian with raqam annotation, for the province of the Bengal khāliṣah-'i sharīfah, including detailed lists of naz̲rānah, ḥāṣilnivīsī, rasmnivīsī, zar-i chawth, jāgīr, and khāliṣah properties and procedures, over the banglah years 1169, 1171, 1172, 1180
Special mention is made in one section of properties assigned to the Bakhshī al-mamālik
Note in English at beginning, ‘From Kissen Chund the Naib Canongoi of Bengal, June 1788’
Dated oval seals of James Grant at beginning and end: Jams Grānt ṣadr-i sarishtah'dār (sic) va mulāḥiẓ-i kull-i dafātir az ṭaraf-i dīvān-i ṣūbah'jāt-i Bangālah va Bihār va gairah, madār al-mahām sipah sālār-i Angrīz-i Kampanī, sanah 1193 Bangalah
Green leather binding
Not dated and lacking colophon
Partially foliated in Persian; estimated 131 folios (24 + 80 + 4 + 23) approximately
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