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IO Islamic 4499

Record Id:
032-004343679
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Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4499
Title:
Revenues and description of Bengal
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
131 ff.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1785
Date Range:
1750-1785
Calendar:
Bengali-fasli
Era:
CE
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 4499

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

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 131 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1750-1785 18th century CE ; India

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