Hi Colin, Greetings. My 2.5 cents. Backerganj as it is spelled today and Mymensingh are in Bangladesh. Back in the early 1800’s, there was no paper currency. One rupee was a silver rupee of about 11.7 grams. 1000 rupees would be 11.7 kgs of silver and 100,000 rupees would be 1170 kgs of silver. Gold was about 16 or 20 times the price of silver in those days (not sure, but that's the best info I could find so far). In an earlier reply, we saw the price of rupee to the pound, so how much was it to the US dollar in those days? As both were silver, 2.5 rupees was about 1 silver dollar or 1 ounce of sterling silver. Or 1 cent was 2.5 paisa ????. Idris. Sent from Windows Mail From: colin hollow Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎May‎ ‎15‎, ‎2014 ‎1‎:‎21‎ ‎PM To: msbajwa@gmail.com, india-british-raj@rootsweb.com, brinds@xtra.co.nz, nbphanse@gmail.com Many thanks for the replies to my questions each has been very helpful. I had the not searched for Talook in Hobsonjobson. The reference to Tallok and Mouzah is as follows "Tallook called Ioar Amragachia in Zillah Backergunge. Mouzah called Amtollah in Zillah Mymensing. Mouzah called Hoglah in Zillah Mymensing." Are any of these places familiar to anyone? regards Colin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mandeep Singh Bajwa" <msbajwa@gmail.com> To: "British Raj List" <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Help wanted with terms and currency values > Mouza is Persian/Urdu for village and was used as such in land revenue > records. > > Mandeep Bajwa > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry® on Reliance Mobile, India's No. 1 Network. Go for > it! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Narendra Phanse <nbphanse@gmail.com> > Sender: india-british-raj-bounces@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:58:16 > To: colin hollow<chollow@netspace.net.au>; > india-british-raj@rootsweb.com<india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> > Reply-To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Help wanted with terms and currency > values > > Hi Colin, > Mouza is equivalent of "at" and the word which follows is the name of the > village or town. Tallook means subdivision of a district. And district > was > known as Zillah. So, if I own lands in two villages namely Dumraon and > Maner for instance, it will be described as "Mouza Dumraon and Maner. If > the name of the administrative subdivision is Buxar, it coulld be "Tallooq > Buxar". Your best bet would be identify two names that follow 'Mouza' as > the places which John Hollow owned. If he owned these villages, he would > be > a zamindar. 220,000 rupees was a big fortune in 1785-1858. Find out how > much was a British pound to an Indian rupee in that period. Currently > British pound is equal to almost 100 Indian rupees. > > On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, colin hollow <chollow@netspace.net.au> wrote: > >> Hello, I am a new member of this list and am seeking help with >> information >> I >> have gathered from wills and estate inventory and account papers of >> people >> with the surname Hollow that lived in Calcutta and Dacca from about 1785 >> through to 1858. >> >> >> >> The inventory papers of John Hollow (c 1858-1834) when listing his >> property >> mention two Mouzahs and a Tallook, they are named. I understand a Mouzah >> was >> a village. Is this correct? What is a Tallook (could be Sallook)? Would >> John >> own them or just have the rights to have the indigo grown? John was >> referred >> to as an Indigo planter and eventually a zemindar. >> >> >> >> The inventory talks of upper roomed houses and lower roomed houses. What >> would these be like? >> >> >> >> The estate value amounts to about 220,000 rupees. Given this was in 1834 >> is >> this a large estate? Is there any way of working out what it would covert >> to >> in money now? >> >> >> >> Any help with these questions would be very welcome. >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Colin Hollow > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message