Baba Budan Archives · Historical Manuscripts · 1817

An Early Persian Record of the Baba Budan Inam Lands

Suraguppa · Makan-e Baba Budan Dargah · Mysore Kingdom

ARCHIVE ID: BD-SUR-1817-01 DATE REPORTED: 13 FEBRUARY 1817 LANGUAGE: PERSIAN DOCUMENT IMAGE AVAILABLE

Among the early nineteenth-century materials assembled by Baba Budan Archives is a Persian-language manuscript associated with the Inam of Makan-e Baba Budan Dargah and lands at Suraguppa in the Chikmagalur region. The supplied archival description dates the record to 13 February 1817 and associates it with the administration of the Mysore kingdom.

The manuscript

Persian-language manuscript associated with the Suraguppa and Baba Budan Inam lands, catalogued BD-SUR-1817-01 — Image of the manuscript catalogued as BD-SUR-1817-01, photographed from the privately held manuscript supplied by its custodian. Click to inspect the image.

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What the archival description records

According to the description accompanying this document in the archive’s existing chronology, the Persian record was addressed to Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar Bahadur by Munshi Syed Maqdoom Hussaini. It is described as containing a coffee-related account of the Suraguppa lands connected with the Inam of Makan-e Baba Budan Dargah, during the management of Syed Meeran Shah Khadri, identified there as the Sajjada-Nasheen.

Persons named in the supplied description Munshi Syed Maqdoom Hussaini; Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar Bahadur; Syed Meeran Shah Khadri.

Places and institutions Suraguppa; Makan-e Baba Budan Dargah; Mysore kingdom; the Inam lands associated with the shrine.

Why this record matters

The document is potentially significant because it connects the history of the Baba Budan religious institution with land administration and coffee-related activity in the early nineteenth century. It also provides a chronological bridge between the late-eighteenth-century succession material and the later nineteenth-century Inam and coffee records preserved in the archive.

Evidence and transcription note. The image shown above is a documentary source, not a modern artistic reconstruction. The date, attribution, named participants and subject summary on this page follow the archive’s existing description. A complete, independently checked Persian transcription and translation have not yet been established here. Accordingly, this page does not claim that every detail of the description has been verified directly against the Persian text. The identification of the physical sheet as an original antique manuscript also awaits a documented material/provenance assessment.

Archival record

Canonical reference: BD-SUR-1817-01
Working title: An Early Persian Record of the Baba Budan Inam Lands
Reported date: 13 February 1817
Language: Persian
Subject: Suraguppa lands, Inam administration and coffee-related history
Source status: Photograph of a manuscript reported to be privately held by its custodian; full diplomatic transcription, date reading and verification pending.

Baba Budan Archives publishes documentary images alongside contextual commentary. Interpretive descriptions may be refined as transcriptions, translations and archival comparisons are completed. This record should be cited by its canonical identifier, BD-SUR-1817-01.