Draft letter from Clive to Ram Narayan
- CR9/8/23
- Eitem
- 1758, May 19
Rhan oRobert Clive Papers
As there was no seal of the Nawab Sahib on the envelope it is requested that it should be affixed on the back of the parvanah and returned.
The pargana of Malda and the value of the properties in Basumukh belonging to the jagir of Nawab Samsam al-Daulah Bahadur Mansur Jang, which as cultivated lands were under the administration of officials, a price of these properties was agreed with the owner of the jagir as the Nawab Wazir has written on this subject. They should withdraw the administrators from the jagir of the Nawab and they should be handed over to Rao Shitab Rae, Assistant Divan of Bihar Province and the properties in districts of Balanj [?] etc., belonging to the aforesaid Nawab.
Another, contemporary translation of the contents is CR8/1, entry 501