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12. POLITICAL SECRETARIAT

            The Political and Finance Secretariat Department was established in 1884 for performing the functions which carried out by Daftar-i-Darul Insha and Daftar-i-Mulki. These Department were bifurcated in 1892A.D. as a result Finance Department was established as separate unit the political functions, affairs and correspondence were transferred to Private Secretary’s Office which was redesignated Political and private Secretary Office. All the records of this department are in Persian, Urdu and English languages. The records of this department were transferred to Archives in 1949 ( the then Central Records office of Hyderabad).

The detailed information of the records of Political Secretariat are given below

Sl. No. Nature of the Documents Periodicity No. of Documents

1. English files 1846-1945A.D        73,768

2. Fly- leaves                -        14,450

3. Inward registers 1879-1949AD.             680

4. Miscellaneous registers 1856-1951A.D.             796

5. Miscellaneous Mulki registers             -             294

6. Out ward registers 1878-1949A.D          2,768

7. Urdu and English files 1911-1945A.D.          3,367

8. Urdu and Persia files              -       1,35,42