
Fourth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Nabi Bakhsh and others
Fourth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Nabi Bakhsh and others
Secret Papers
MARC-12042023-420
April 13, 2023 at 2:42:38 AM
National archives of India
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Fourth Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Nabi Bakhsh and others
Delhi
Foreign
April 01 , 1857
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Mutiny
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April 11, 2023 at 8:00:00 PM
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Mohammed Abdulkarim
English

The Translation and Comment
by
Mohammed Abdulkarim:
of Original Document:
To—The King Shelter of the world
RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH !—-That in the preseut anarchy, your slaves have suffered heavy and ruinous losses inasmuch as whatever commerce we carried on, whether at Calcutta, or Benares, or Cawnpore, or Delhi, or Umballah, or Lahore, has been ruined, and all our mercantile stores have been plundered and devastated, while the burden of our former debts still lies on our shoulders, and we are now without even the means of meeting the daily expenses necessary for the subsistence of our selves and our families. Let Your Majesty ascertain the truth of this statement from trustworthy parties, and by an inspection of our mercantile books. Mirza Moghal Sahib now demands 50,000 Rupees from us. Whence can we produce the same? At present, we should find it extremely difficult to raise even 5,000 Rupees. We, your slaves, have now been three days prisoners in the arrest of Captain Mir Haidar Husein Khan, and the said Captain would not allow us out of custody, even to join in the prayers on the Eed-i-azha. Left without other resource, we petition Your Majesty (at the same time praying to God to protect and preserve you over the heads of us, your slaves,) that Your Majesty will issue an order for our release from arrest. We have now for twenty days been administering to the wants of 1,200 Mujahids!, and shall continue to do so. But more than this is impossible, is out of our power to perform, and cannot be done. We depend on Your Majesty’s consideration, equalling that of Cyrus, that, with a fostering concern to nourish and cherish the poor, Your Majesty’s orders will, with condescending goodness, be issued for our release. It was necessary, and we have submitted it. (Prayers for the prosperity ofthe reign.) The petition of the slaves Nabi Baksh, Haji Mulla Baksh, Karim Baksh, Jawan Bakht, Pir Baksh, Fateh Muhammad, Muhammad Uwusein, Muhammad Baksh, Taimur Ahmad, Krim Baksh, Kutb-ud-din, Saifulla, Haji Rahim Baksh, Karim Baksh Ahmad, Karamdin, Haji Ahmad, and others.
Autograph order hy the King, in pencil
Mirza Moghal will take recognizance for future good beha- viour so that they may not again, in infringement of positive orders, send Commissariat necessaries or other supplies to the infields, and provided the advice of the Lord Governor coincides, he will then release them all.









