The papers which are press-listed here were in the custody of the Commissioner of Delhi and were transferred to the Imperial Record Dept by the Punjab Government in 1899. Some of the papers are in Persian, but the majority are in Urdu. There are some papers in English, mostly translations of the Urdu and Persian papers. They are of various sizes and are grouped in 201 bundles, roughly classified ; each bundle has been separately press printed. These papers are mostly records found in the Palace or in the Camp of the rebel army by the British troops after the capture of Delhi. There are some letters from british spies, a paper containing the defense of the ex-king , some Urdu and Persian newspapers of the time and extracts from others , certain private letters including a few pre-Mutiny papers having no bearing on the Mutiny.