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- [1838] (Creation)
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Letter from the Raja of Bettiah to Brian Houghton Hodgson with best wishes and thanks for helping to restore the hereditary title and related power of the Raja (riyāsat of Bettiah) from the British Indian Government, which were previously ignored by the Commissioner of Patna; request for further help in order to restore the rights over lands and territory of the Hathuwā area from the disputing local hereditary feudal lords known as Chatradhārī sāhī jimidār by approaching Mr. Charles Tucker Shaheb, local British administrator; history of the dispute over two generations between the Raja of Bettiah and these feudals over the hereditary rights to certain lands and territory in the said area; information on earlier efforts towards a settlement by sending Mr. (Robert) Ferguson Saheb, collector of Bettiah. There is also an accompanying note from Hodgson explaining the letter on what had perhaps acted as the envelope. Handwritten in Hindi with Hodgson's note in English, 2 pieces, dated [1838].
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- Hindi