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Coll 17/3 'Iraq. Oudh Bequest' [4v] (8/60)
The record is made up of 1 file (30 folios). It was created in 8 Jun 1931-18 Oct 1935. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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66
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
[2nd Sep. 1935.
To be paid in perpetuity as per separate statement. The allowance of persons
dying without heir, to be added to the sums for Nujuf Ushruf and Kerbulla.
A'abob Moatummud-ood-Dowla Behauder,
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
twenty thousand (Rs. 20,000).
This allowance is to be paid in perpetuity to the
Nabob
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
and his heirs. It will
lie paid in perpetuity after his demise, agreeably to his will, to his sons, daughters,
and wives, and other dependents. If it happens that he makes no will, in that case
1 ie allowance is to be given to his lawful heirs,, according to the laws of inheritance-’
in conformity to the tenets of the Sheeas. The allowances which are assigned to hit
wife, one son, and a daughter, from this fund, as specified below, are also to be
continued in perpetuity separately, and whatever the
Nabob
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
may bequeath to them
out of the above allowance, is to be given to them in perpetuity separately ; and,
m lk<i lf a will be not made, shares are to be given to these three persons
Irom the
Nabob
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
s allowance according to law. r
/u Be ^ ni ’ the wife of
Nabob
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
Moatummud-ood-Dowla,
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
two thousand
This allowance is to be paid to her during her life-time, and after her death to
he paid to her lawful heirs, in perpetuity, according to the laws of inheritance, in con
formity to the tenets of the Sheeas.
( R g
Nabob
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
) AiUeeab
Begum
Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage.
, the daughter of the said
Nabob
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
,
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
one thousand
According to the foregoing rule.
Ameen-ood-Dowla Behauder, son of the
Nabob
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
,
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
two thousand (Rs. 2,000).
Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.
Done at Tvucknow, the 1st Mohurrum, 1241 Hegira, corresponding with the 17th August,
MORDANT RICKETTS,
Resident.
AMHERST.
J. H. HARRINGTON.
W. B. BAYLEY.
Ratified by the Right Honourable the Governor General in Council at Fort William
in Bengal, the Thirtieth day of September, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-
five A. D. J
GEO. SWINTON,
Secretary to Government.
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Correspondence between the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India, the Office of the High Commissioner for Iraq, and Saiyid Kalbe Abbas Naqvi, Honorary Secretary of the Waqf Section of the All-India Shia Conference. The correspondence concerns the administration of the Oudh Bequest Fund, and the appointment of a mujtahid to the Charitable Committee at Karbala, following the death of the previous incumbent, Mauli Kalb-i-Mahdi.
Details of the composition of the Karbala and Najaf Committees are provided, and the correspondence also provides information on candidates for the mujtahid position. The religious and charitable nature of the bequest is also discussed. At the front of the file are excerpts from the Official Report of the Legislative Assembly Debates, providing details of the terms of the Oudh Bequest.
Note:
The Oudh Bequest was a fund established by the King of Awadh to provide for the annual distribution of funds to improve religious learning and to help poor Shia communities in Iraq. The payments were distributed by selected mujtahids of the holy shrine cities of Karbala and Najaf. Following the annexation of Oudh in the 1850s, administration of the bequest was passed to the Government of India, and was supervised by the Head Clerk of the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Baghdad, and later by the Protector of Indian Pilgrims, attached to the Secretariat of the High Commissioner in Iraq.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 file (30 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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