A Collection of Urdu Petitions, &c. : Made under the orders of the Government of India for Her Majesty's civil service commissioners.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Office of Superintendent of Government, publisher.

Language:

Urdu

Subjects (All):

Procedure (Law)--India.

Complaints (Civil procedure)--India.

Actions and defenses--India--Cases.

Petitions.

Urdu language--Texts.

Urdu language.

Genre:

Texts.

Trials, litigation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Morrison, W. H. (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

181 , 76 p. ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Calcutta : Office of Superintendent of Govt. Printing, 1869.

Language Note:

In Urdu, romanized Urdu and English.

Notes:

Collection of one hundred petitions in Urdu, interleaved, availing Indian civil service officers the blank page facing the Urdu to practice translations; contains printed translations in English in the back of the volume to verify one's own translations.

Petitions arranged by region and range in topic from murder and illicit purchase of opium to commercial and property matters.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy contains autograph of W.H. Morrison, London, dated February 1870, and has intermittent annotations with the owner's glossing of Urdu words and romanisation of the Urdu.

Penn Libraries copy purchased from John Randall (Books of Asia) in 2017.

OCLC:

70909588