Order of Nawazish Khan to Mutamad Lal Muhammad not to threaten the villagers
In response to a petition (ʿarzdasht) from Purshottam Das, Mutamad Lal Muhammad is instructed not to threaten to attack the villagers in the districts (parganas) held in revenue assignment (jagir) by Nawazish Khan.
Functional document type: Orders
Formal document type: Parvana
Themes: Administration, Peasants, Petitioning, War
Date:
Julus calendar: 1 Zi al-hijjah 5
Hijri-qamri calendar: 1 Zi al-hijjah 1073
Gregorian calendar:
7 July 1663
[Page 1r]
invocation (top centre): Arabic
الله اکبر
God is great
authorisation (right margin): Persian
نوازش خان مرید حضرت محمد اورنگ زیب بادشاہ غازی
[Round black ink seal] Nawazish Khan, disciple of Lord Muhammad Aurangzeb Badshah Ghazi
main text: Persian
1معتمد لعل محمد
بعنایت امیدوار بودہ بداند که دراینولا از عرضه داشت
2
پرسوتم
چودری پرگنه
دھار
بعرض رسید که او بر دھات پرگنه
جاملی
رفته برعایا انجا
3می گوید که بر دھات مذکور تاخت خواھم نمود و اینمعنی باعث بیدلی رعایا می گردد
4لہذا نگاشته می آید کہ این معنی لغایت نا پسندیدہ نمود می باید که از پرگنات
5جاگیر سرکار هیچ کار نداشته باشد و اگر مطلبی رو دھد حقیقت را عرضه داشت نماید که
6 ھر چه باید کرد بعمل خواھد آمد و اگر احیانًا ازین قسم افعال باز بخواھد آمد
نتیجه نیک نخواھد یافت
7درین باب نھایت تاکید دانسته از نوشته تخلف نورزد تحریر فی التاریخ
غرہ ذی حجہ سنہ
٥
1Mutamad Lal Muhammad, having hoped for kindness, know that recently through the ‘arzdasht
2of
Purshottam Das, chaudhri of pargana
Dhar, it has been represented that he [i.e. Lal Muhammad] had gone to the villages of pargana Jamli
and said to the peasants there
3that he would invade the said pargana. And this has been the cause of the
despair of the peasants there.
4Therefore it is written that this event is extremely displeasing. It
is necessary that he
5have nothing to do with the parganas of the jagir of the Sarkar [i.e. Nawazish
Khan]. And if any matters come forth, the facts should be put forward in an ‘arzdasht
6so that whatever needs to be done, can be done. And if he ever does
this type of action again, the consequences will not be good.
7Knowing this matter to be confirmed, do not neglect what is written.
Written on the
1st of Zi al-hijjah, [regnal] year 5.
invocation (right margin): Arabic
هو
He [God] is
authorisation (right margin): Persian
حسب المسطور عمل نماید فقط
It must be done as written. Nothing further.
clerical notes (top right): Persian
[پروانہ] بنام لعل محمد جیو
[Parvana] in the name of Lal Muhammad Jiu.
emperor (alternately, padshah)
religious warrior; an honorific
petition (used for any formal address from an inferior to a superior)
landlord (similar to desai, deshmukh)
district
district
district
district
rights to collect taxes from a certain area as payment for imperial services and associated expenses
territorial division, larger than district; generic term for a sovereign or government (Mughal term)
petition (used for any formal address from an inferior to a superior)
order
an honorific added to a name or title to show respect
Participants
Issuer:
Nawazish Khan
Recipient:
Mutamad Lal Muhammad
Supplicant:
Purshottam Das
Language(s)
Arabic
Persian
Source
Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, LNS 235 MS c1
Archival Collection: Purshottam Das collection
Transcribed from manuscript image.
Edited by Elizabeth Thelen
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