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IO Islamic 4087

Record Id:
032-004341897
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004341897
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4087
Title:
Collection of letters and reports on Delhi, Rohillas, Marathas, etc.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Irvine Collection
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1796
End Date:
1798
Date Range:
1796-1798
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ashraf ʿAlī
Bū al-ʿAlī Bahādur
Gūbind Rāʾū
Gūpāl Rāʾū
Jaggū Bābū
Jagnāth Rām Bahādur
Khaṭarī miyān ṣāḥib
Mahārājah Dawlat Rāʾū Sindhiyah Bahādur
Mawlavī Valī Allāh ṣāḥib
Maḥabbat Khān
Muḥammad Dayānat
Muḥammad Jahāngīr
Muḥammad Mīr
Muḥammad Z̲ū al-Fiqār Khān
Muḥammad Ḥusayn
Navvāb Vazīr al-mamālik
Riz̤āʾ Bayg
Rājah Bishan Singh
Sarbuland Khān Bahādur
Shaykh ʿĪsá
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000087936565,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7368495
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000087936565,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7368495
Tīpū Nāyak
ʿAbd Allāh Bayg
Ḥāfiẓyār Khān
TEI:

Irvine Collection

IO Islamic 4087

Collection of letters and reports on Delhi, Rohillas, Marathas, etc.

Contents

Collection of miscellaneous documents, comprising letters (some with dated seals), courtly reports or akhbār, intelligence reports, revenue reports, etc., relating to late-eighteenth- to early-nineteenth-century British EIC, Timurid or Mughal, Rohillah Afghan, Avadh, Mysore (Tipu Sultan), Rajput, Sikh and Maratha affairs

Dates ranges from 1211-12/1796-98

Reports on specific subjects: 1) English and Maratha battles; 2) Maratha and Sikh relations; 3) exchanges on revenues; 4) military movements and strategy Named correspondents mentioned in letters include: 1) Maḥabbat Khān 1180/1766-67; 2) Ḥāfiẓyār Khān; 3) Ashraf ʿAlī; 4) Mawlavī Valī Allāh ṣāḥib; 5) Muḥammad Z̲ū al-Fiqār Khān; 6) Khaṭarī miyān ṣāḥib; 7) the brothers Muḥammad Mīr and Muḥammad Jahāngīr

Akhbār on specific subjects: 1) Darbār-i muʿallá 1211/1797; 2) Navvāb Vazīr al-mamālik Rabīʿ al-Avval 1212/August 1797; 3) Mahārājah Dawlat Rāʾū Sindhiyah Bahādur 1211-12/1796-98; 4) ʿAbd Allāh Bayg and Riz̤āʾ Bayg the vakīls of Tīpū Nāyak; 5) Rājah Bishan Singh of Bundi; 6) Bū al-ʿAlī Bahādur 1212/1797; 7) Gūbind Rāʾū and Gūpāl Rāʾū; 8) Jagnāth Rām Bahādur known as Jaggū Bābū

Contains one petition (f. 22), an ʿarz̤ah dāsht from Muḥammad Ḥusayn (addressee not identified) appealing against the forced extraction of money from the three-year-old jāgīrdār, Muḥammad Dayānat; related affidavit enclosed for the attention of Sarbuland Khān Bahādur and Shaykh ʿĪsá

Fluctuating dimensions, with many larger attached leaves folded up

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 22 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 210 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1796-1798 1211-1212 (1796 - 1798) AH ; India

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