Order of Fath Jang Khan granting the office of deshmukhi and 8 villages to the landlords Lodi and Hasan
Fath Jang Khan informed the officials of district (pargana) Kondvi that Lodi and Hasan were rewarded for their good service with the post of landlord (deshmukh) and a grant (inʿam) of eight villages in the district (pargana).1
Functional document type: Orders
Formal document type: Parvana
Themes: Administration, Grants, Taxation and Tribute, War
Date:
Julus calendar: 17 Jumada al-awwal Regnal Year 33
Hijri-qamri calendar: 17 Jumada al-awwal 1101
Gregorian calendar:
26 February 1690
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authorisation (top centre): Persian
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main text: Persian
1سند بمهر
فتح جنگ خان
مرحوم از قرار بتاریخ
هفدهم شهر جمادی الاول سنه
۳۳
جلوس والا
مطابق
۱۱۰۱
هجری
2انکه متصدیان مهمات حال و استقبال و زمینداران و مقدمان و مزارعان جمهور سکنه پرگنه
کوندوی
معموله
اسلامگده
3عرف راهیری بدانند که
لودی
ولد اسمعیل و
حسن
[|ولد]
محمد زمینداران پرگنه مذکور
[برهبری]
طالع در فوج فیروزی بخدمات
4بادشاهی حاضر و سرگرم بوده مصدر ترددات گردیدند لهذا خدمت دیشموکهی پرگنه مزبوره و
انعام موضع
5موضع
3
[
…
ل
|تودل]
وغیره چهار دهه از بابت دیشموکهی و ادهیکاری و مقدمی و کشت کامتی و سیته گری و چودهر
گری
6و
[پیشگی]
گری و بیسوا و موضع
ناتوندی
از بابت دیشپاندیه گری بموجب قدیم و انعام جدید موضع
ولوته
وغیره
7سه دهه بموجب سند
اقا علی خان
که
[
…
|بر]
حسن تردد مورچال
پاچور
مقرر شد حسب الضمن بدستور سابق
8و حال مقرر نموده شد باید که خدمات ماموره با انعامات مذکور بمشارالهما تا
[
…
|باولاد]
شین مقرر
[
…
|شناسند]
9و سبیل
[
…
|مومی الهما]
انکه بحسن سلوک خودها رعایا و برایا را اباد داشته در افزونی و
زراعت کوشیده مالواجب
10حقوق دیوانی را موافق ضابطه در سرکار جواب میگفته باشند و هر سال
[
…
|عذر]
پروانه تازه
ننمایند
11و نقل بمهر شریعت پناه گرفته اصل بمشارالهما بدهند
[مقرر]
شرح ضمن
انکه انعام در بابت خدمات
[
…
|دیشموکهی]
12وغیره
[
…
|بموجب]
معمول
[
…
|قدیم]
و انعامات حال بموجب سند
اقا علی
[
…
|خان]
مقرر شناسند
1A sanad under the seal of
Fath Jang Khan, deceased, as established on the
17th of Jumada al-awwal in the 33rd year of the
enthronement, equivalent to
1101 Hijri.
2Namely that the mutasaddis of
present and future affairs and the zamindars and muqaddams
and all the cultivators, residents of pargana
Kondvi, under the administration of
Islamgarh,
3alias Raheri, should know that
Lodi
son of Ismail and
Hasan
4
[son of] Muhammad, zamindars of the
aforementioned pargana, having been
diligently engaged in royal service by the fortunate guidance in the victorious army,
4embraced undertaking exertions. For this reason they have been granted the
service of the deshmukhi of the
above-mentioned pargana and the inʿam of mauzaʿ
5
Tudil, etc., four villages, for the sake of deshmukhi and adhikari and
muqaddami
kasht-kamati and sethi-giri and chaudhr-giri
6and
[pishgi-giri]5 and
biswa, and the mauzaʿ of
Natondi
for the sake of deshpande-giri in accordance with tradition,
7and the new inʿam of mauzaʿ of
Valote, etc., three villages, as per the sanad that was granted to
Aqa Ali Khan
for handsome effort at the battery of
Pachor, in accordance with the contents [of the
sanad]
8and with former and current custom. It is necessary that they should know the
appointed positions of service and the aforementioned inʿams to be established to the aformentioned two persons
and their descendants.
9And the manner of those two aforementioned [will be such] that, making the
peasants and
[nobles|people]
become settled by [their] good conduct, endeavouring in the increase and cultivation
10shall answer for the revenue claims of the diwani in conformity with governmental procedure. And
every year they shall not make an excuse for a new parvana.
11And a copy under the seal of the Refuge of the Shariʿa [i.e., the qazi] having been taken, the original
should be given to the aforementioned two people. They shall know
…
the annotation of the content that the inʿam in the matter of services of deshmukhi
12etc. [is] fixed in accordance with old custom and the current inʿam [is] fixed in accordance with the
sanad of
Aqa Ali Khan
particulars (bottom): Persian
1
۸
…
موضع
2
انعام از بابت دیشموکهی وغیره دروبست
۴
موضع
3
قریت
تودل
یکموضع
4
قریت
واکن
یکموضع
5
قریت
کریجاری
یکموضع
6
[|قریت
[
راودهل
]
یکموضع]
7
از بابت انعام دیشپاندیه گری
۱
موضع
8
ناتوندی
یکموضع
9
از بابت انعام بموجب سند
اقا علی خان
بر حسن تردد مورچال
پاحور
بوقت بودن فوج امارت مرتبت
ذوالفقار خان
بهادر
۳
موضع
10
قریت
ولوته
یکموضع
11
قریت
تامنه
یکموضع
12
قریت
[کوت وال بزرگ|لات ون]
یکموضع
1
8 villages
2
Inʿam for the sake of deshmukhi, etc., the entirety
of 4 mauzaʿ
3
village
Tudil
one mauzaʿ
4
village
Wakan
one mauzaʿ
5
village
Karijari
one mauzaʿ
6
[village
Ravdhal
one mauzaʿ]
6
7
For the sake of inʿam for deshpande-giri 1 mauzaʿ
8
Natondi
one mauzaʿ
9
for the sake of the inʿam in
accordance with the sanad
Aqa Ali Khan
in handsome service of the battery of
Pachor
at the time of being [in] the army of the dignified office of
Zulfiqar Khan
Bahadur, 3 mauzaʿ
10
village
Valote
one mauzaʿ
11
village
Tamhane
one mauzaʿ
12
village
[Kotwal Buzurg|Latvan]
one mauzaʿ
7
Notes
1. Two slightly divergent copies of this document are extant. Alternate readings and possible readings for words that are obscured in copy A due to the condition of the paper are taken from copy B and indicated with brackets in the Persian transcription. Significant differences are noted in the translation. [BACK]
2. Although each seal presumably has an inscription, none are visible in the copy. Copy B is unsealed. [BACK]
3. The reduplication of mauzaʿ here is a scribal error. [BACK]
4. Based on context, Hasan appears to be the same person as Ahsan mentioned in the 1693 document from the same collection. [BACK]
5. A possible alternate reading is patil-giri, holding of the office of patil [BACK]
6. Village Ravdhal is named in copy B of the document. Copy A only lists 3 villages although the heading notes that 4 villages were granted for deshmukhi in the label. [BACK]
7. Copy B names village Latvan (لات ون) instead of Kotwal Buzurg; in copy A it is possible that Latvan was altered to Kotwal. [BACK]
generically, a document
local revenue official (As a state post, often in charge of trade and the collection of customs in a city or port. Can also refer to a clerk or accountant.)
landlord
village headman
district
landlord
district
the office of deshmukh or landlord
district
reward, grant of tax-free land
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
the office of deshmukh or landlord
official, superintendancy, holding an office
office of muqaddam (village headman)
cultivation by hired labour or servants
holding the office of sethiya
the holding of the post of chaudhri or landlord
taking money paid in advance, rent
village headman
one-twentieth of a bigha; used to indicate a share or portion in the rights to a village
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
the holding of the office of deshpande or record keeper
reward, grant of tax-free land
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
generically, a document
generically, a document
reward, grant of tax-free land
revenue department
order
Islamic judge
reward, grant of tax-free land
the office of deshmukh or landlord
reward, grant of tax-free land
generically, a document
reward, grant of tax-free land
the office of deshmukh or landlord
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
the office of deshmukh or landlord
reward, grant of tax-free land
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
reward, grant of tax-free land
generically, a document
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
village (Mughal fiscal-administrative division)
Participants
Grantor:
Fath Jang Khan
Grantee: Lodi Khan
son of Ismail
Grantee:
Hasan
son of Muhammad
Language(s)
Persian
Source
Aisha Deshmukh Family Collection, no shelfmark
Archival Collection: Valota Deshmukh collection
Transcribed from manuscript image.
Edited by Hannah Archambault, Nandini Chatterjee and Elizabeth Thelen
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