Author
the Indian Government
Publication Date
1935 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
71
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/1/734
Record ID
vdc_100000000193.0x0002c5
Library Location
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.
Date
1935 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The volume is entitled
List Showing the Names, Titles and Modes of Address of the More Important Sovereigns, Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles etc., Having Relations with the Indian Government, Alqabnamah
(New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1935). [The Alqabnamah was a register kept by the Indian Government, recording official titles and modes of address.] It is described on the front cover as 'Corrected up to the 5th October 1935'. The volume shows a number of manuscript corrections, additions and cross-references.
The volume is divided into lists of independent states, protectorate rulers, ruling princes and chiefs in India, and miscellaneous. Within these divisions information is recorded in parallel columns under the following headings:
name of state;
name and [form] of address of ruler in English;
commencement and conclusion of letter in English, and colour of crest;
highest British authority by whom hitherto addressed;
name and [form] of address in Persian or Arabic;
number of guns [in official salute];
remarks.
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Düzenleme
There is a list of contents and an alphabetical index towards the front of the volume, on folios 3-5.
