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Document Name
First Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Jamuna Das, Land-holder, Resident of Mauttra
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Secret Papers MAC-23022023-901 March 12, 2026 at 7:19:39 AM
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Document Name
First Days of Proceedings Trail of Bahadur Shah - Petition of Jamuna Das, Land-holder, Resident of Mauttra
Location Department Language
The National Archives of India is located at the intersection of Rajpath and Janpath Road Foreign English
Dated Collection No. Serial No. Folder Size No. of Pages
July 13, 1857, 8:18 p.m. ---- --- Mutiny 0.1 1
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TRANSLATION

The Translation and Comment

 by 

 Mohammed Abdulkarim:

 of Original Document:


 

     To—The  King  !  Shelter  ofthe  World 

   RESPECTFULLY  SHEWETH,—Your  Exalted  Highness.  Your slave  has  for  some  years,  been  staying  at  his  home  without occupation,  and  has  passed  his  time  at  best  he  was  able.  He has  now  cometo  Your  Majesty’s  threshhold  in  search  of  his subsistence,  and  prays  that  orders  may  be  issued  from  your Royal  presence,  empowering  him  to  make  arrangements  for settling  the  Country  from  Delhi  to  Muttra,  and  thence  on  to Agra.  As  your  slave  is  a  resident  of  Muttra,  and  is  in  consequence  fully  acquainted  with  the  whole  of  that  District,  he will,  through  Your  Majesty’s  auspices  and  the  favour  of  God, be  able  to  establish  arrangements  which  will  be  thoroughly efficient.  Your  slave,  moreover,  knows  near  two  thousand men  in  that  District,  who  are  practised  in  the  use  of  fire-arms. All  he  requires  is  Your  Majesty’s  orders,  and  he  will  then establish  Postal  and  Commissariat  arrangements  in  every  City and  Town,  from  Delhi  to  Muttra,  &c.  Ten  or  fifteen  days after  reaching  Muttra,  your  slave  will  send  about  ten  Lacs  of rupees  to  the Royal  Treasury,  for  the  expenses  of  the  State. He  prays,  therefore,  that  the  matter  being  taken  into  favours able  consideration,  one  piece  of  ordinance,  with  shot  andpowder,  and  some  Infantry,  may  be  made  over  to  him,  to proceed  in  that  direction.  Arriving  in  that  District,  your  slave will,  with  the  blessing  of  God,  make  thoroughly  efficient arrangements,  and  Your  Majesty’s  Government  will  be  firmly established.  Without  your  Royal  authority,  your  slave  is  unable  to  do  anything,  and  that  which  is  accomplished,  will hereafter  be  thoroughly  manifest  to  Your  Majesty.  Beyond this,  matters  are  in  the  dispensation  of  God.  It  was  necessary, and  has  therefore  been  submitted.  (Prayers  for  the  prosperity of  the  reign.) 

Piece  of  Ordnance  with  powder  and  shot           1 

Regiment  of  Infantry  with  Cavalry                       l 

Seal,  to  certify  King’s  authority  for  the 

petitioner’s  proceedings                                           l 

   Besides  the  above,  whatever  else  it  may  please  His  Majesty to  bestow.  Petition  of  the  slave  Jamuna  Das,  Putail,  of  old nourished  by  His  Majesty’s  salt,  resident  of  Muttra,  at  present staying  at  Delhi. 

   Signature  of  the  Petitionerin  Hindi. 

         Note—No  order  on  the  petition;  but  there  is  a  separate  one 

in  reference  to  it  from  the  King,  to  Mirza  Moghal,  which  has 

been  translated  as  a  separate  paper,