Or 15497 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Oriental Manuscripts
Mughal copper land grant
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1 copy of a work by Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1618-1707
A copper plate in Persian issued in the name of Aurangzeb recording a land grant of 525 bīghah of land in the pargana of Minda (?), suba of Ajmer upon Naẓar ‘Alī Shāh, whose want of means of subsistence has left him indigent, on the understanding that he will pray for the perpetuation of his sovereign's rule.
Dated 11 Rabīʻ II regnal year [1]4 (AH 1082, 17 August 1671).
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Nastaʿlīq
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1998-05-31
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