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IO Islamic 3686

Record Id:
032-004341625
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3686
Title:
Transcript for trial of Nawab Shamsuddaulah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
229 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Latin
Start Date:
1799
End Date:
1827
Date Range:
1799-1827
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 3686

Transcript for trial of Nawab Shamsuddaulah

Contents

Persian account and transcripts of verbal and documentary evidence (latter with drawings of seals) for the trial before the Magistrate's Court, Calcutta, 1211-13/1796-9, of Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlī Khān entitled Navvāb Shams al-Dawlah (later Nawab of Dhaka, d. 1833) for treason against the English EIC in league with the Afghan ruler, Shāh Zamān

English summary and annotations on first flyleaf in various hands, one of which state's the volume belonged to John Buller, Esq., based on armorial bearings on bookplate (now missing)

Lot number H.&S.5261, for sale dated 22 May 1828, priced £1.11.6: according to label on back cover: Howell & Stewart, 295 Holborn, London, successors to Ogle Duncan & Co.

Original ornamental gilt tooling on deep green leather binding

Not dated

Language(s): Persian & English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 229 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 266 × 188 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1799-1827 18th-19th centuries CE ; India

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