History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c41.14.3

v2.c41.14.3

Sulaiman Beg, the *Faujdār* of Hughly, informed the governor that the utmost attention will be paid to troops proceeding to Burdwan and Medinipur.⁴ On the 26th November of the same year two letters were written to one Mīr Wāriṣ ’Alī, evidently the *Faujdār* of Hijli, asking for help to purchase rice for the people of Mr. Dacre.⁵ Misrī Khān was probably the *Faujdār* of Medinipur, as two letters were received from him on the 26th of November stating that as all arrears have been paid to the sepoys at Medinipur, no revenue can be sent from that *chaklah* and that he is prevented from seeing the governor out of fear of highwaymen. A reply was sent to him on the 28th stating that the Company’s troops will be sent soon and requesting him to transact business in the usual manner.¹ A letter was received from Rājā Jugal Kishor in which the latter describes the manner in which Medinipur was formerly plundered.² This interesting document, if recovered in original and published in full, may throw very interesting light on the history of Orissa in 1760. On the 1st of December of the same year Rājā Rāj Nārāyaṇ of Kāśijorā was informed that the Company’s troops will shortly proceed to Medinipur to chastise the disaffected. On the 3rd of the same month Rāgmānji Jāchak was requested to order his people not to molest the Company’s men or intercept any English letters coming from Madras.