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IO Islamic 4005

Record Id:
032-004341820
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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MDARK:
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TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4005
Title:
Deeds of jagir
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
35 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1900
End Date:
1906
Date Range:
1900-1906
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Durrānī, Aḥmad Shāh, Amir of Afghanistan, 1723?-1772,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000025588905,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/139145910119027021680
John (sic, read George) Jasper Nicholls
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Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4005

Deeds of jagir

Contents

Untitled collection

Transcripts (naql) of late-eighteenth-century correspondence and property deeds making up a muniment for a hereditary jāgīr (jāgīr-i āl-tamghā) for villages in Navāzganj and 65 other villages

Includes legal papers relating to a claim by Bābū Kāshī Nāth ibn Lālah Kashmīrī Mal stating that the hereditary jāgīr had been granted to Lālah (Rājah) Kashmīrī Mal, the karūrī (karori) of Timurid or Mughal Emperor Muḥammad Shāh, by Rājah Mahīp Narāyan of Benares (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from AgraCopied from an original manuscript belonging to the library of

Filiation: Copied from decaying (pārīnah va būsīdah) documents found in a paper depository (anbār khānah-yi kāghaz̲āt) in Banāras (Varanasi)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 35 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 254 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq

in watery ink

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1900-1906-04 20th century CE Benares (Varanasi, UP) ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/9 (digital images currently unavailable) [Persian_III] 9_66r

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