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Fourth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Rajah Nahar Sing, of Ballabhgarh

Fourth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Rajah Nahar Sing, of Ballabhgarh

Secret Papers

MARC-06042023-435

April 11, 2023 at 5:52:18 AM

National archives of India

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Fourth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Rajah Nahar Sing, of Ballabhgarh

The National Archives of India is located at the intersection of Rajpath and Janpath Road

Foreign

July 01 ,1857

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Mutiny

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April 5, 2023 at 8:00:00 PM

Mohammed Abdulkarim

English

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The Translation and Comment

 by 

 Mohammed Abdulkarim:

 of Original Document:

 

To—The  King,  Shelter  of  the  World  !  Dispenser  of  Justice 

&c. 

     RESPECTFULLY  SHEWETH  :—That,  as  the  state  of  the  road to  Delhi  was  very unsettled  your  slave  has,  according  to  Your Majesty’s  orders,  been  engaged,  night  and  day,  in  instituting the  most  efficient  arrangements.  Still,  however,  the  lawless inhabitants  of  the  Village  of  Pali,  which  adjoins  the  Ballabhgarh  boundary,  and  which,  during  the  Foujdaree  was  attached to  this  State,  have  broken  out  into  reckless  violence;  and  have so  taken  to  highway  robbery  and  plunder,  that  the  whole population  is  in  great  distress  in  consequence,  notwithstanding that  I,  your  slave,  am  bringing  them  into  order  little  by  little, yet  still  I  cannot  venture  to  act,  to  any  full  extent,  without Your  Majesty’s  orders.  If  your  Royal  permission  is  granted, such  efficient  arrangements  will  be  adopted,  that  these  miscreants  and  rebels  of  the  said  village,  will  not  have  the  daring to  continue  in  their  present  practices,  and  the  arrangements along  the  road,  from  Ballabhgarh  to  Delhi,  will  be  perfected. Further,  I  have  heard  from  some  persons  who  had  requests to  make  to  me,  that  it  has  been  represented  to  Your  Majesty, that  the  Chief  of  Ballabhgarh  has  secreted  two  Englishmen, with  their  wives  and  children.  God  is  witness  that  this  is entirely  a  false  and  unfounded  calumny.  How  could  your Slave  dare  to  commit  an  act  of  the  kind,  without  Your Majesty’s  wishes  and  orders!  A  native,  however,  who  was formerly  a  Christian,  had  been  twelve  years  in  my  service;  but I  put  even  him  away,  fearing  Your  Majesty’s  displeasure. This  man  has  now  discarded  Christianity  and  embraced  the Mahomedan  religion,  and  he  is  accordingly  deserving  of  mercy and  foregiveness.  If  Your  Majesty  permits  it,  I  shall  have him  recalled.  (Prayers  for  the  prosperity  of  the  reign.) Petition  of  the  ancient  slave  and  servant,  Nahar  Singh,  Chief of  Ballabhgarh.  Seal  of  Rajah  Nahar  Singh  Bahadur. 

 

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