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Translation Date Revision No. Translator/Commentator
     
Mughal Library References
Mughal Library
Document Name
Baldeo Zamindar Firozabad to the Emperor Complain that the Sepoys Do Not allow him to Bring In the Grain Form the Old.
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: PR_000002385089
Original
Document Name
Baldeo Zamindar Firozabad to the Emperor Complain that the Sepoys Do Not allow him to Bring In the Grain Form the Old.
Location Department Language
The National Archives of India is located at the intersection of Rajpath and Janpath Road Foreign Timurid (Persian/Turkish/Arabic)
Dated Collection No. Serial No. Folder Size No. of Pages
June 27, 1857, 8:18 p.m. 146 6 Mutiny 0.2 2
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 June 28, 1857





TRANSLATION

The Translation and Comment

 by 

 Mohammed Abdulkarim:

 of Original Document:

 

To—The  King  !  Shelter  of  the  World  

RESPECTEULLY  SHEWFTH,—That  owing  tothe  unsettled state  of  the  times,  and  in  consequence  of  the  City  gates  being kept  closed,  your  Slave  has  stored  the  produce of  his  Winter crop  of  Grain  of  the  Agricultural  year  1264,  on  the  premises of a  relation  in  the  old  Fort.  The  Officers  of  the  Regiment Stasioned  there  now  oppose  its  removal,  and  your  Slave  is pressed  for  payment  of  his  rent  for  the  year  referred  to,  by  his Jandlord  Syad  Abdulla,  Mafeedar*,  Your  Slave  therefore 

 

          Trusts  that  an  order,  under  your  Royal  signature,  may  be  sent to  the  Officers  stationed  in  the  old  Fort,  directing  them  not  to oppose  the  removal  of  the  Grain  to  the  City,  so  that  your  Slave may  sell  it  and  pay  his  rent.  The  petition  of  the  Slave  Baldeo, Cultivator  ofthe  Village  of  Ferozabad  Khadir  endowment  to the  Shrine  of  Sharif  Hazrat  Muhammad  Chisti.

Autograph  order  by  the  King,  in  pencil 

Ahsan  Ulla  Khan,  have  an  order  written. Note on the   Reverse—An  order  has  been  written.