Australia George V Cancel Question

Do you translate your Hindi, Tony?
or have someone close to translate?

Rod, I can transliterate reasonably well written Nagari - sufficient, anyway, to make out town names, when I know what they could be. Persian/Indo-Persian/Urdu is a bit more of a challenge, though.

Sorry to labour the point,
so how do you know, when you transliterate,
Talwada Deb is a Town, or at least, confirm the fact?
Do you employ falling rain?

Rod, I have it from a list of Barwani State Post Offices, and the circa 1908 Gazetteer of Central India section on Barwani, which contained another list of State POs, functioning in the pre-postal era.

Actually, Talwada Deb is a trifle complicated. There seem to have been villages called Talwada Khurd and Talwada Buzurg, which transformed into Talwada Deb at some point. Adding to your store of utterly useless information, here is what the Gazetteer has to say of Talwada-Khurd:
'Pargana Anjar.- A village and head of a thanadar situated 9 miles east of Barwani in 22 deg. 0' N. and 75 deg. 8' E. Population was in 1901, 1,349 persons; males 675, females 674, of whom 1,175 were Hindus. Occupied houses 290.'

A pargana was a subdivision of the state, and a thanadar was a police station.

Ah! Yes, Rod's Domesday Book of completely useless things.
Whomsoever takes over my collection
certainly shall have some light reading to do

Thanks for that, distribution of areas appears political,
the population seems high relatively for Australia, but I guess
India at the time, it would have been a tiny village.

I shall retain the factoid, but under just "Barwani"

I had a photographic memory, but it was never developed.