Scope and Contents This diary spans the period of 1 January, 1915 through 31 December, 1915, with no entries between 23 December and 31 December and with a very small minority of them written in, what appears to be, Urdu, one of the coofficial languages in the general area today. It contains a stamp reading: "Munshi Radha Mohan Lal B.A., Nazim of Sambhar, Jaipur State." One learns from it that as the Nazim of Sambhar, the author performed many legal, as well as representative duties, which kept him very busy....

Scope and Contents This diary spans the period of 1 January, 1916 to 31 December, 1916, with entries for almost every day of the year, and with certain words, phrases, or dates written in, what appears to be, Urdu, one of the coofficial languages in the general area today. The inside cover has a quote from the Bible and the back pages contain random notes, many of them in Urdu. In the court, Nazim seemed to have worked closely with the Hakim (see, for example, the 20 January, 1916 entry). One of their usual...

Scope and Contents This diary spans the period of 1 April, 1918 through 31 March, 1919, with entries in English for almost every day of the year, and certain words, phrases, or dates in Hindi and, what appears to be, Urdu, one of the coofficial languages in the general area today. Following his eye operation in March, there are no entries for approximaterly three weeks. The back pages have random notes in English and Urdu. In contrast to previous diaries, the entries in this diary are shorter and there are...

Scope and Contents SUMMARY: This diary spans the period of 1 April, 1919 through 31 March, 1920, with entries for almost every day and with some text written in Urdu, one of the co-official languages in the general area today. The front pages of this diary look different from those in the earlier ones. One page has the calendar for 1919 glued onto it and the other has "RML Mathur's DIARY 1ST APRIL, 1919 to 31ST MARCH, 1920" ornamentally and colorfully written on it. The significant occurrences of this...