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Translation Date Revision No. Translator/Commentator
     
Mughal Library References
Mughal Library
Document Name
Fifth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Mirza Muhammad Azim
Category Archive No. Updated Date
Secret Papers MAC-23022023-901 March 12, 2026 at 7:19:39 AM
Held At: National archives of India
Identifier Number: ----
Original
Document Name
Fifth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Mirza Muhammad Azim
Location Department Language
Delhi Foreign English
Dated Collection No. Serial No. Folder Size No. of Pages
March 31, 1857, 8:18 p.m. ---- ---- Mutiny 0.1 1
Main Category Sub Category Modern Classification Modern Subclassification Document Type Source
Secret Papers N/A N/A N/A Digitized Document N/A
Title of Person Position Associated To Period From Period To Other Name
N/A N/A N/A 1857 1857 N/A
Successor Predecessor Issue Number Doc Material Gregorian Date
N/A N/A N/A N/A April 01 , 1857





TRANSLATION

The Translation and Comment

 by 

 Mohammed Abdulkarim:

 of Original Document:


 

To—The  King  !  Shelter  of  the  World  ! 

 

      RESPECIFFULLY  SHEWETH  !—That  the  servants  of  Your  Majesty  who  came  from  Hansi  and  Hissar,  and  who  have  been  placed under  your  slave,  have  not  received  their  pay  for  two  months and  twenty  days.  As  the  treasuries  of  Sirsa,  Hissar,  Hansi, and  other  places,  were,  with  great  care  and  zeal,  brought  by them,  and  lodged  in  the  Royal  Treasury,  and  here  too,  accompanying  your  slave  in  every  enyagement,  three  or  four  of these  servants  daily  certify  their  fidelity  with  their  lives,  they therefore  now  demand  their  pay.  Your  slave,  actuated  by zeal,  has  arranged  that  Your  Majesty  will  now  grant  one month’s  pay  out  of  the  two  months  and  twenty  days’  arreais which  are  due,  he  will  satisfy  the  men.  If,  on  the  other  hand, no  pay  whatever  is  now  granted,  the  force  will  have  cause  to be  disheartened.  It  is  strange  that  all  the  rest  of  the  Army should  have  been  paid.  [  tcansmit  enclosed  in  this  petition, an  abstract  for  one  month’s  pay  for  all  the  men of  the  force,  in expectation  that  orders  may  be  tssued.  It  was  necessary  and has  been  represented.  (Prayers  for  the  prosperity  of  the  reign). Petition  of  the  special  slave,  Muhammad  Azim,  door-keeper (may  his  sins  be  forgiven  ) 

 

          Autograph  signature—Note  below  signature—“The  Seal was  not  at  hand  just  now’’. 

 

                                          Autograph  order  by  the  King,  in  pencil 

 

Mirza  Moghal  will  give  one  month’s  pay.