[Account book of an unidentified person or business in the area of Bombay].
Published: 1919
Language: guj
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Accounting -- India -- Bombay.; Manuscripts, Gujarati -- Washington (D.C.); Manuscripts, Urdu -- Washington (D.C.)
Notes: Gift of Allen W. Thrasher; acquired by the donor in Bombay in 1988.
In Gujarati and Urdu.
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Title formulated by cataloger, based on apparent contents of the book.
Most of the writing is Gujarati language and script; three shorter sections in Urdu (Arabic script) near end; many unnumbered pages blank.
The Gujarati parts have been found illegible by native speakers; the first page has in 2nd line the date 1909; p. 1 of the main part (5th group in the collation) includes the name Mumbai and payments to a "compounder" for medicines.
The Urdu parts begin with a logbook of expenditures and receipts, in tabulated form, covering the years 1919-1924; the first entry notes an expenditure for transportation from Bombay to Surat. Text on the pages carrying Urdu pagination from right to left, corresponding to p. [212]-[217] of last group in the collation, is written in long lines; it begins: Ahmadayār(?), Sayyid Hussain bin Sayyid ʻAlī bin Sayyid Amīr Miyān̲ bin Sayyid Muḥammadī ...
Dates in the main sequence of the Gujarati accounts run from 1920 through 1924.
Written by two hands, presumably in what was then the Province of Bombay.
Paper of local production; watermark combines English, Gujarati, and Urdu.