Misri Bai

Hindi: मीसरी बाई

Gender: female

Occupation: qanungo, record-keeper

Occupation group: Judges, Officials, and Clerks

Ethnic group: indeterminate

Note: It is extremely unusual to have woman qanungo, but the unabiguously feminine name is very clearly written in two scripts in two documents.

Texts

• 1787: Declaration of Anwar Beg and Sayyid Azam that they have no claims on trees in Sahib Rai's garden (Persian, Hindi)
• 1804: Declaration of Sultan Khan and his sister Haiyat Bibi about the sale of a plot of land for ten rupees (Persian, Hindi)