Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Sale Purchase Deal documents from 1872 AD, 1876 AD and 1880 AD

This is another incredible guest post by Man mohan Munshi ji. Can't thank him enough for sharing these! And he has promised to send in more surprises!
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Document from 1872 AD
Document from 1876 AD
Document from 1880 AD

[...]three original legal agreements pertaining to Sale purchase deals executed by my great grand father Munshi Daya Ram in  1872 AD, 1876 AD and 1880 AD  which I located in a heap of  junk in 2003. The said agreements have been drafted in Persian and the revenue stamp /paper is bilingual i.e Persian and Sanskrit . A few words / signatures are in 1872 document are in Sharda script. The dates of the said agreements english in the text are given in Bikrami and Hijri Samwants which have bee calculated are as follows:

                          Bikrami             Hijri                  Ad/CE
                          1929               1279                   1872
                          1933                --                        1876
                          1937               1398                   1880  
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6 comments:

  1. that is one rare collection..excellent job!!! Wonder if that can be interpreted????

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  2. That is so wonderful. Keep it up and be in touch with that good man so as to have a separate allocation for this new section.

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  3. A translation of the documents would be very interesting.

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  4. faheem,
    thanks for the comment! More of Manmohan Munshi ji's stuff can be found under the category 'guest posts'

    Minni and Raj Pandita,
    I hope some reader can come up with the translations. Tough chance ...but...

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  5. Dear Vinayak,
    No words are enough to praise your brilliant and educative site of searchkashmir.. tommorrow is Eid and infact it is almost 1 a.m in morning but your post/photos and the knowledge is so interesting that I am not able to shutdown my laptop. I have also some historical documents which I would like to share and yes,, You made a distinction that Kashmiri's are a Genious Clan.
    Appreciate your work.. Yaseen.

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  6. Yaseen,
    Eid Mubaraak and thanks for the appreciation! I have had some great help from readers who keep have contributed to this blog. If you want to share something here, you email me and it will be uploaded to the blog. Find my id in the profile link at the bottom of this page.

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