Khawaja Khairat Ali Munshi In the office of the General to the Emperor Prays that the Kotwal May Be Directed to Supply 1000 Soldiers Encamped On the Other Side of ------ Bridge With 100 Munds of Parched Grain
Khawaja Khairat Ali Munshi In the office of the General to the Emperor Prays that the Kotwal May Be Directed to Supply 1000 Soldiers Encamped On the Other Side of ------ Bridge With 100 Munds of Parched Grain
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Khawaja Khairat Ali Munshi In the office of the General to the Emperor Prays that the Kotwal May Be Directed to Supply 1000 Soldiers Encamped On the Other Side of ------ Bridge With 100 Munds of Parched Grain
DELHI IN 1857 VOL. 1 ( THE TRIAL OF BAHADUR SHAH)
Foreign
August 01 , 1857
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241
Mutiny
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April 13, 2023 at 8:00:00 PM
Mohammed Abdulkarim
English
The Translation and Comment
by
Mohammed Abdulkarim:
of Original Document:
To—The King! Shelter of the World !
It is fully manifest to Your Majesty, that since yesterday, twenty thousand Troops have been suffering the greatest inconvenience and discomfort, exposed to rain, and unsupplied with food. I therefore trust that an order may be issued to the Chief Police Officer of the City to dispatch, for the present, one hundred maunds of parched Gram to the Camp on the other side of the Bussye Bridge. Otherwise, this will be the second day of starvation to the Troops It has been submitted for information. Petition of the slave Khwaja Khairat Ali, Clerk in the General’s Office.
Autograph note by the King, in pencil
The purport has been learned. Note on the face “3rd August 1857, Index No. 1165”’.