Ujjain (District Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh). Satellite view (Wikimapia).
Ujjain (District Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh). Charter of Vākpatirāja, otherwise Vākpati Muñja, detail showing Garuḍa (© British Library).
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| Title | Ujjain copper-plates of Vākpatirāja |
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| Inscription(s) | IN60001 |
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| Author | F. Kielhorn |
| Metadata recorded by | RAS SIDDHAM Team |
| Authority for metadata | Indian Antiquary 14 (1885) |
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| Description | |
| Material | Metal / copper alloy |
| Object Type | Plate |
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| Found: | |
| Date | before 1850 |
| Place | Ujjain |
| Other modern history | In the India Office Library by 1885 |
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| Date | 2016 |
| Place | British Library |
| Authority | examination in the library |
| Details | The plates appear to have come into the hands of R. N. C. Hamilton (full name Robert North Collie Hamilton), Agent to the Governor General to Central India (see Mitra, 1850 in CONCORDANCE). He served in the East India Company from 1820, stationed at Benares and later at Meerut where he was magistrate at the time of the death of Begum Sumru (d. 27 January 1836). He was secretary to the Governor of the North West Provinces and Resident at Indore. He submitted: "Report from R. N. C. Hamilton, Esq., Resident at Indore, of a trip down the Nerbudda from Mundlaisir to Baroche, made by Lieutenant H. L. Evans, of the 17th Regt., Bombay N. I., and Deputy Bheel Agent," Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society 8 (1847-48): 19-144. Also see: Historical Retrospect of the Province of Nimar (c. 1855). Hamilton died in England on 27 December 1887, a record of his funeral service is kept in the archive of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Secondary literature: Elizabeth Hamilton, The feringhees : Sir Robert and Sir William-Two Europeans in India, 2 vols. (Delhi: OUP, 2016). |
| Notes | Mitra (1850) records only that the plates were "discovered in digging a ruin in the vicinity of Oujein." |