"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٥‎٩‎٩] (١٧٨٢/١٧٥٤)

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been conferred in 1%8 or 1S59 ; he was succeeded bySaiyid Muhammad
Bahr-ul-'Ulum, a Turkish subject. Those Mujtahid-Distributors were
all, it would appear, nominated by the British Political Agent or Resi
dent at Baghdad on the recommendation of the Nawab Iqbal-ud
Daulah ; and the ^Sawal) s position with reference to the Bequest was
greatly fortified by this circumstance.
1 ho sepaiate fund for the relief of Indians, which had existed in The separate
practice for a number of years, was placed on a regular footing in
1877 by means of letters which the Mujtahid-Distributors at Karbala
and Najaf addressed to the British Political Agent at Baghdad. In
these they signified their desire that one-third of the amounts payable
to them, or over lis. ;5,000 in all, should be deducted for the relief
" through the British Residency " of poor Indians at Karbala and Najaf
and Kadhimain, especially such as were of noble family. The letters,
which were almost identical in their wording, can hardly have been the
spontaneous production of the Mujtahids; and, in view of the contents
of his own memorandum of 1866, it is difficult not to see in them the
finger of the Iqbal-ud-Daulah. The proposed arrangement received the
immediate assent of Colonel Nixon, the British Political Agent, who also
undertook its execution in so far as that depended upon himself. The
receipts given by the Mujtahid-Distributors to the Political Agency
Treasury at Baghdad included the amounts assigned by them for the relief
of Indians ; and the Indian Fund was consequently regarded, with perfect
correctness, as existing under their sanction. Distribution to Indians
seems to have taken place on lists of names prepared after enquiry. The
Kadhimain Indian list is known to have been revised in 18SI, " when
" Mr. Plowden, in concert with the Nawab Sir Iqbal-ud-Daulah, or
" perhaps the latter only under instructions from the former, went
cf through it, and made such changes in it as seemed necessary. "
In October 1882 Colonel W. Tweedie, then officiating as Resident Investigation
in the absence of Mr. Plowden, visited Karbala and enquired on the tioifand OSl "
spot into the reputation of the Mujtahid-Distributors there and at t'onduet^of ^
Najaf, Mirza Abul Qasim and Saiyid Muhammad, and into the local Distributors,
working of the Bequest, lie found that:— 1882-1883.
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(I) " Although the name and rank of Mujtahid was conceded by
" all reasonable persons to both these scholars, yet not their
" greatest admirers could claim for them pre-eminence over
" several of their brethren who might be mentioned ;
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