COORG.

From Harry Rivett-Carnac, Esq., Assistant Secretary to Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces, to the Officiating Secretary to Government of India, Foreign Department,

Fort William.-(No. 4029, dated Nagpore, the 12th September 1863.)

RAJPOOTANA.

CENTRAL PROVINCES.

BURMA H.

From Captain H. Nelson Davies, Secretary to Chief Commissioner of British Burmah, to E. C. Bayley, Esq., Officiating Secretary to Government of India,
Foreign Department, Fort William.-(No. 287-4141, dated Rangoon, the 1st November 1863.)

I HAVE the honour, by direction of the Chief Commissioner, to acknowledge Mr. Assistant
Secretary Wheeler's letter, No. 423, of 21st September last, forwarding a roll of state
prisoners to be filled up; this has been only partially done, because the headings of the form
are in some respects not applicable to the present position of the Delhi state prisoners at
Rangoon; a brief state of the case of these prisoners seems therefore necessary.

After the defeat of the Mahratta Army at Putpan-Gunge, near Delhi, by the British
Force under General Lake, in 1803, the Mahratta Army having evacuated Delhi, the blind
Emperor Shah Alum, who had been a mere state prisoner in the hands of the Mahrattas,
sought the protection of the British General. Lord Lake entered Delhi on the 14th Sep-
tember 1805, and from that time till the mutiny of the Bengal Army in 1857 the Titular
Emperors of Delhi have been pensioned subjects of the British Government. Shah Alum
died in 1806, and was succeeded by his son, Akbar Shah, who died in 1837, when Mahomed
Bahadoor Shah, son of Akbar Shah, mounted the throne. He identified himself with the
cause of the mutineers in 1857. On the 54th anniversary of Lord Lake entering Delhi and
releasing his grandfather from the custody of the Mahrattas, Delhi was wrested from the
hands of the rebels, and on 27th day of January 1858 Bahadoor Shah was brought to trial
on the following charges:-

1st. For aiding and abetting the mutiny of British Troops.

2d.-Encouraging and assisting divers persons in waging war against the British Government.

3d. Assuming the sovereignty of India, and

4th.-Causing, and being accessory to, the murder of Christians.

He was found guilty in all the charges, and was removed to Rangoon, where he arrived on 10th December 1858, and died, and was buried there on the 7th December 1802.

The stipend allowed by the British Government for the support of the Titular Kings of Delhi from Shah Alum's time down to Bahadoor Shah's was 12 lakhs of rupees, or 120,000l. per annum; but besides this Bahadoor Shah was in receipt of ground rents and tenements in the city of Delhi, which yielded probably 3 lakhs, or 30,000 l. a year in addition to his pension; his general income, after providing for his personal expenses, was portioned out among his wives, relatives, and retainers, according to his pleasure. Bahadoor Shah had no power whatever beyond the precincts of his own palace; he had the power of conferring titles and dresses of honour upon his own immediate retainers, but was prohibited from exercising that power on any others. He and the heir apparent were exempted from the jurisdiction of the Company's Local Courts, but were under the orders of the Supreme Government,

Together with Bahadoor Shah were conveyed to Rangoon the following prisoners, besides attendants:

Name.

Relationship to
Bahadoor Shah.

Remarks.

The wife of Juwan Bukt voluntarily ac-
companied her husband.

The mother and grandmother of Shah
Abbas accompanied him voluntarily.
Mother of Juwan Bukt.

Prior to the breaking out of the rebellion in 1857 the monthly stipend of Juwan Bukt was
350 rupees a month, while his mother's allowance was 5,500 rupees; the mother of Shah
Abbas received 45 rupees a month, and his grandmother 35 rupees, while he himself received
100 rupees.

The mother of Shah Abbas is a Yunnah woman, named Mubaric Misser; the father of
Zummanee (wife of Juwan Bukt) is one Mahomed Khan; his father's name was Ahmed
Kuli Khan, whose father, "Abbas," for some service rendered to Government, received a
pension of 400 rupees a month, but his son, Ahmed Kuli Khan, only received half that
amount, and it appears to have ceased with him, for I understood Mahomed Khan (Zum-
manec's father) received no pension.

The mother of Zummanec is named Nawab Begum, whose father was one Nawab
Bahadoor Khan; he appears to have been a wealthy man; his own income is stated to have
been one lakh of rupees a year, besides a jagheer of 32 villages. On his death it is stated
Government commuted the revenue derived from these villages, and allowed his son, Walli
Dad Khan, a pension of 2,000 rupees a month. Zummanee has three children, one boy
and two girls.

Shah Abbas has recently married one "Aiesha," daughter of a native Mahomedan trader,
originally from Bombay, and settled in Rangoon, named Mahomed Tyre; the mother of
Aiesha is a pure Burmese.
The present state of the remaining state prisoners is this:-They all live in one house,
surrounded with a high palisade, situated close to the main guard; three Europeans sentries
are constantly on guard inside the enclosure. The two Begums, Zenat Mahul and Zum.
manee, are allowed to take exercise in a gharrie, and the two sons of Bahadoor Shah take
exercise on foot, attended by an European sentry.

There is no fixed allowance for the state prisoners' food, and clothes are supplied to them
and their attendants at the discretion of the officer in charge; but they receive no money
allowance. The total expenditure of the state prisoners and their attendants for 1862-63
was 6,831 rupees.

(signed)

Bahadoor Shah had pro-As per accompanying letter, Ceased since the Mutiny
perty which yielded about No. 287-4141, dated the
three lakhs a year.
1st November 1863.

For remarks, see letter accompanying, dated the 1st November 1863, No. 287-4141.

BOMBA Y.

RETURN showing the NAMES and DESIGNATIONS of NATIVE PRINCES or their Families, within the scope of the Authority of the Bombay Government, in receipt of
Pensions or Allowances from the British Government, from 1st January 1850 to 31st August 1863.

BOMBAY. Return showing the Names and Designations of Native Princes or their Families, in receipt of Pensions or Allowances, &c.-continued.