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After leaving Azimabad I arrived at Benares on the 3rd of Rabi al-Avval. I hope to stay here for a few days to do some shopping and then depart for Allahabad; I will send you full a report after seeing the King. -- Enclosure: -- This is to inform you that until the writing of this letter the person you had appointed to come from Monghyr and accompany me to see the King has not yet arrived at Benares. -- Meanwhile, please let me know if you require anything from here. As good quality tea is not available here I will appreciate if you could send me some.

Congratulation on your recent well-deserved victories.

Mubariz al-Mulk, Muin al-Daulah and Muzaffar Jang Bahadur came here and inspected the affairs of the Bihar province. Afterwards, the account books for 1173 Fasli were sent to Mr Sanks Bahadur Haibat Jang so that he could compare these with his own estimates and then send them over to you. Now we are preparing the accounts for 1174 Fasli and we will send you details of the instalments and collections in due time.

I have arrived at Madnipore on the 24th of Rabi al-Avval and will be coming to see you soon.

Thank you very much for your letter advising me that I should include the district of Colonel Ganj under my administration and carry out the administration of the opium trade properly and efficiently. I should try to buy whatever quantity is needed for the company and to not allow the French, the Dutch or any mahajans to participate in this trade. -- Acting on your advice I have included the district of Karnailganj in my administration. As far as the trade of opium is concerned the officials who curtail the illegal trade of opium do not make a distinction between opium traders, mahajans and the common people. Since your gumashtahs have monopolized the purchase of opium all other traders have ceased to trade and the zamindars have ceased cultivating opium. It is therefore requested that you order them to make a distinction between the mahajans and genuine traders so that zamindars could also resume the cultivation of opium. It is therefore recommended that you appoint agents for the purchase of opium and that they purchase whatever the company requires and that the rest is sold to the Dutch, the French and the mahajans. This will increase the trade and ultimately increase our tax revenue as well.

Thank you very much for your letter of the 25th of Zi al-Hijj informing me that Nizam Ali Khan was having some useless designs and that a comparatively small English force was able to defeat a huge army of Shuja al-Daulah together with those of the Rohilla sardars, Gosain, Mir Qasim Ali and Durrani. You have also informed me that Navab Nasir Jang has lost his life and his state at the hands of the French who did not have the ability to face the English army; moreover, that Nizam Ali Khan will have to face nothing but disgrace. As I was away at Chinapatam for the past eight months and have been worrying about my affairs I was pleased to have received you kind letter. I was also very pleased to read your assurances that you will never abandon me and would honour our friendship while you live and that while you are in this country you will always consider my honour as your own and will endeavour to protect and safeguard it from my enemies. I was also pleased to know from your letter that His Majesty has moved into Allahabad fort and that Raghunath Rao with his large army was going around on a rampage but being afraid of the English army he did not dare to cross the river Jumna. In your letter you have also informed me about the deaths of Malhar Holkar and the Navab of Bengal, Najm al-Daulah, and the appointment of his younger brother Saif al-Daulah as the next Nawab of Bengal. You have also informed me that you had gone to Azimabad to strengthen relations between Shuja al-Daulah, the Rohillas and Javahir Singh Jat. -- -- It is a great credit to the English company that after the demise of Mir Jafar Khan they installed his eldest son as the governor of Bengal and after his death his second son. -- I was very grateful to learn from your letter that when you go to see H.M next you will present my petition to him, or otherwise you will send one of your trusted men to do the same. I know that you will try your best that I receive the appropriate honours and titles from H.M. -- I have fully understood what you have written regarding the cases of Sadr al-Islam, a zamindar of Tajavar, and Haidar Naik. I hope that before you leave for England you can convince H.M not to issue any firman to Haidar Naik, Tajavar Valah and others. -- Just after writing this letter, while I was going to affix my seal, I received a firman from His Majesty bestowing great honours and titles on me. As a small gesture of my gratitude I am enclosing a nuzr of one thousand and one ashrafis.

Thank you very much for your letter acknowledging the receipt of three statements of accounts in regard to the revenue of the province of Bihar that I had sent. I am glad to know that you have read my statement regarding the departure of Sukha Ram Naik, a vakil of Rajah Januji Bhonsalah. As the Maharajah Sahib has not received a reply to the letter he had sent to you he thinks that perhaps you do not wish to reply. As I am coming to see you shortly he has requested that I ask you about this. I will be grateful if you could send a short reply to the above letter so that I can satisfy the enquiry of the aforesaid vakil and that he could return to the Maharajah Sahib with this reply. -- Enclosure 1: Copy of a letter to Rajah Januji Bhonslah. -- Thank you for your letter delivered to me by Sukha Ram Naik. We are sending Mir Zain al-Abidin Khan with letters from Lord Clive and Nawab Najm al-Daulah Bahadur and to discuss some important issues with you. The aforesaid Naik has also left to return to you and to report about the letters and the departure of the Mir. -- Enclosure 2: Copy of a letter to Divan Devaji Pandit. -- Mir Zain al-Abidin Khan has left here with letters from Lord Clive and Nawab Najm al-Daulah Bahdur and Sukha Ram Naik has arrived here with a letter from the Maharaja Sahib. He will be able to explain the details to you personally when he arrives. -- Enclosure 3: [Gold-sprinkled]. -- I had received an intelligence report about the King Emperor sent by Naib Rao Rangun Singh, a Harkara. This is enclosed for your information. -- Enclosure 4: [Gold-sprinkled]. An intelligence report from Rao Rangun Singh. -- I have come to know from reports coming from the west that Rao Raghunath Singh is intending to wage war against Javahir Singh Jat. Javahir Singh has therefore sought assistance from Najib Khan.

I was planning to go to Murshidabad on the 2nd of Rabi al-Sani but then I received your letter asking me to bring the teasurery of Bihar. I have been able to collect four Lac rupees so far which I will bring with me to Murshidabad on Friday the 6th of Rabi al-Sani.

I received your letter asking me to come and see you. I was travelling by boat to Murshidabad when your letter reached Mongyr by land and then from there it reached here only on Thursday the 12th of Rabi al-Sani. It will take me a further ten days to complete my affairs here and then I will be coming to see you.

I have received a letter from the Nawab as well as another letter from Munir al-Daulah Bahadur addressed to you; these are enclosed with this letter [not enclosed]. Please instruct you secretaries to reply to my letters.

In my previous letters I gave you an account of the troubles created in this area by the wretched Qasim with the instigation of the Rohillas. I also sent you letters of Hafiz Rahmat Khan and Mukarram Khan which would have given you further details of the troubles created by him. As he regards my English friends and I as one and the same thing he is planning to invade Bengal after he has taken over this area.

Nawab Mubarik al-Mulk Muin al-Daulah Bahadur Muzaffar Jang left here on the 22nd of Rabi al-Sani, San 7, to come and see you. He is carrying with him cash and bank drafts of twenty Lacs and one rupees. Out of this, sixteen Lacs and one rupee are the taxes collected from the province of Bengal and the rest of the four Lacs from the province of Bihar. He will be able to provide details of this account when he reaches you.

Two years ago I was appointed as the manager of Sabzavali Mahallat in the District Nakari?. Later, the post was given to someone else and I am since then without any source of income. I will be grateful if you could arrange for me to have some source of livelihood.

We have not received any news of your well being for some time. Please do let us know about your health and welfare as soon as possible.

Thank you very much for your letter. I am a faithful servant of the East India Company and a devoted servant of my benefactor and I consider that my future is attached to your prosperity and well-being. I hope you will continue to bestow your kindness on me. I have sent you a detailed account of this region and hope that you have read this report by now.

I am pleased to have received your letter of the 26th of Rabi al-Sani, San 7, after much delay on the 1st of Jamadi al-Avval, San 8. Thank you for informing about your well-being and good health and I hope you will keep on writing to me in the future.

Following your orders I have sent a boatload of water from Sita Govind. I hope it has reached you safely and is being used by the water depository of the government. I have now received another parvanah dated the 4th of Rabi al-Sani, San 7, asking me to send another boatload of water from Sita Govind. Accordingly, it was dispatched on the 11th of this month, I hope it also reaches you safely. I will be able to send further consignment of water if required. Meanwhile, because of floods in this area all seasonal crops in this district are now under water. The Ganges has broken its banks making thousands of acres of land under water. This will effect the collection of taxes from this area.

Before returning to Calcutta you had asked Nawab Intizam al-Daulah to grant me a khillat with decorated sar-panch and an elephant. Accordingly, he has bestowed on me these honours at Budhpore on the 27th of Rabi al-Sani, San 7. I am enclosing a nuzr of one ashrafi and five rupees as a token of my gratitude.

Thank you for your letter advocating friendship between the Maharajah Sahib and the East India Company as well as your offer of help against our enemies. We have already sent you a report on the troubles created by our enemies in this district for the past four months. In response you have kindly sent Babu Jan Sarkaryah with a force of five hundred soldiers who reached the Ganges a couple of days before the festival of Dusehra. You were going to send another force after consultation with the Maharajah. Because of the delay in punishing the rascal the rainy season has now set in and the rivers are flooded; in addition, he was able to get help from Shamji Pandit. As he had carried out pillage and destruction in Harbalpore, Chaklah Babu Hasti and Thanah Halmal, etc. our forces were able to annihilate them and send them to Hell. We are confident that we will soon be able to conquer his fortress also. There is therefore no need for you to send us the extra help you had promised in your letter.

Thank you very much for your letter of the 7th of Jamdi al-Sani, San 8, received on the 16 instant. You have written that the demand of the furnace is small while the demand of the amy for rupees is much greater and that I should arrange to have new coins minted at Arcott mint and deposit newly minted coins in the treasury month by month. I should also make sure that the goldsmiths do not make undue profits out of this affair. Today, Tuesday 20th Jamadi al-Sani San 8, I, with the appoval of Mr Middleton Bahadur Ikhtiyarjang and Mr Thomas Rank Bahadur Dilava Jang who is Daorghah of the Mint at Azimabad, called all bankers, gold and silver merchants and informed them about the issue of the new coins. They replied that there was not enough gold and silver availabale in the city which would allow us to mint four Lac rupees every month. They could mint new coins only after melting old coins. For each one hunded rupees minted there is a charge of five rupees.