"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٤‎١‎١] (١٧٨٢/١٥٦٦)

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The second of the alternative readings was adopted in the some
what slipshod English version of the Agreement as ratified, which
proceeded :
remaining two-thirds is to bo divided into two equal parts ; one half
to be given to the Nujuf Ushruf, and the other half for Kerbulla to the* High Priest
and Mujawurs (or persons who have it's charge), on the part of the said King, that
His Majesty might thereby derive it's benefits.
It cannot be doubted that the part of the Agreement sealed by the
King of Oudh was that in which hi& intentions were most t correctly,
as well as most elaborately, expressed; that part, it will be noticed,
stated that the funds transmitted to the payees were to be distributed
by them to " deserving persons ^—a point on which the other documents
were silent. It is equally clear that there was no intention on the
King's part of including Mujavirs among the original payees, and
that Mujavirs would never have been mentioned at all in connection with
the Oudh Bequest, had it not been for a clerical error by a Persian
scribe which gave rise to an incorrect English version of the Agreement.
Sultan Maryam Begam and Nawab Mubarak Mahall both died in the
year 1849, King Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar having predeceased them in 1827,
and the clauses of the Agreement of 1825 constituting the Oudh Bequest
became operative. The question of how practical effect should be given
to them was considered by Lieutenant Kemball, the Acting Political
Agent at Baghdad, in the absence on leave of the Political Agent, Colonel
Rawlinson.
The magnitude of the Bequest and the political difficulties in which it
threatened to involve the British Political Agency at Baghdad seem to
have daunted, somewhat, the officiating British representative. Rupees 1,668
a month from the allowance of Sultan Maryam Begam and Rs. 6,666 a
month from that of Nawab Mubarak Mahall had fallen in with effect
from the 6th April and the 30th June 1849, and large sums were rapidly
accumulating. Lieutenant Kemball accordingly addressed the Govern
ment of India and Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople,
True mean
ing of the
Agreement,
Coming into
operation of
the Oudh
Bequest
1849.
Orders of
Government
in regard to
the adminis
tration of the
1849-52.
*lhe arbitrary substitution of the singular for the plural will be observed. More
over ''High Priest" or even" Priest" is a misleading translation of the word
" Mujtahid," the duties of Mujtahids being professorial, judicial and notarial, but
not sacrificial.
tlhe Kmg of Oudh's part of the Agreement seems to have been lost sight of for
a long time ; but in 1911, having been rediscovered by Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh,
Attache in the Foreign Office, Simla, it was referred by the (government of India to the
Government of the United Provinces for examination and opinion. That Government
held that it was superior in authority to the other Agreement 1 papers, and the Govern
ment of India apparently concurred.
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