Baba Budan Archives · Inam & Coffee-Land Records
1882 – The Coffee-Land Claims Dossier
ARCHIVE RECORD · BD-INAM-1882-01
File No. 48 of 1882: a multi-year Mysore administrative dossier concerning claims of the Dattatreya Peetha Darga and Bisagni Matt to coffee lands on the Baba Budan Hills. The file brings together earlier references, survey correspondence, departmental reports and subsequent proceedings.
An Administrative Case File, Not a Single Order
The date 1882 identifies the file series; the records inside extend into later years.
The cover of the uploaded historical scan identifies File No. 48 of 1882, concerning claims of the Dattatreya Peetha Darga and Bisagni Matt to certain coffee lands on the Baba Budan Hills. The scan is a 574-page compilation of correspondence and proceedings.
The dossier should not be described as a single judgment or as a government grant. Different pages record representations, survey and revenue opinions, and later orders, which must be distinguished from one another.
Source status
The displayed images below are extracted from the user-supplied scanned historical PDF, not AI reconstructions. PDF page numbers refer to the sequence in this 574-page file; historical folio numbers and enclosures may differ.
The Records Across Time
Selected verifiable landmarks from the scanned dossier.
File No. 48 is opened or indexed under 1882 for competing claims to coffee lands.
A report referring to the Darga and Bisagni Matt claims appears in the early part of the dossier (see PDF pages 14–16).
A handwritten passage on PDF page 45 refers to an earlier Nirup of 1831. This is a retrospective reference within the file, not the original 1831 instrument.
The printed text of Dewan’s Proceedings No. 710-11-7 appears at PDF page 92. It directly discusses the competing claims and encroachment/assessment questions.
The printed Revenue Proceedings, Case No. 765, appear at PDF page 119 and explicitly refer back to the 28 April 1884 order.
What the File Can and Cannot Show
Claims, administrative decisions and present-day title are different legal and historical questions.
What the Scans Establish
- A substantial administrative enquiry existed concerning coffee-land claims of the two named institutions.
- Officials considered earlier records, surveys, encroachments, settlement and assessment.
- The 1884 Dewan’s Proceedings survive in printed form in this dossier (PDF page 92).
- The 1885 Revenue Proceedings revisit the settlement and assessment arrangement (PDF page 119).
What They Do Not Automatically Establish
- That every assertion by either claimant was accepted.
- That all land described in the file belonged personally to any individual.
- That the original 1831 Nirup has been recovered merely because it is mentioned.
- That historical administrative assessments conclusively settle present-day ownership or boundaries.
Research caution
The 1884 printed order contains substantive observations about both institutions and their claimed lands. Interpret those passages in their complete context, including later administrative action; avoid reducing the dossier to a single sentence or a title claim.
Selected Genuine Source Pages
The following images are embedded directly from the uploaded 574-page PDF.
The Dossier and Its Individual Orders
The parent file and its individual decisions deserve distinct catalogue entries.
This page serves as the parent archival record for the 1882 case file. The 1884 Government Order should remain a separate page under BD-INAM-1884-01, with its actual printed page 92 image and a revised direct-evidence description.
The 1885 Case No. 765 should likewise be catalogued independently if the archive expands its year-by-year proceedings. Earlier historical instruments mentioned within the dossier should be classified as referenced until their own surviving texts are verified.
Archival Citation and Limits
A transparent basis for future research.
Master source: Scanned file titled “Claims of the Dattatreya Peetha Darga and Bisagni Matt to certain coffee lands on the Baba Budan Hills,” File No. 48 of 1882, 574 PDF pages, supplied to the archive by the researcher.
Selected locations: cover p. 1; 1883 correspondence p. 14; retrospective 1831 reference p. 45; Dewan’s Proceedings dated 28 April 1884 p. 92; Revenue Proceedings dated 11 July 1885 p. 119.
Transcription status: The full handwritten file has not been transcribed or checked page by page. The selected findings are deliberately limited to the inspected pages; names, figures and legal conclusions elsewhere in the file require independent verification.
Archival integrity
Images are direct extracts from the supplied PDF. No synthetic historical image, reconstructed handwriting or invented government text is presented as a source.
BD-INAM-1882-01 · Original Case File
The 1882–1885 Coffee-Land Enquiry
A multi-year documentary record of competing claims, survey enquiries and revenue administration on the Baba Budan Hills. The archive preserves the difference between an historical claim, an official proceeding and a conclusion about land rights.