BAHAWALPUR, Punjab. An unused gold embossed menu card

An unused menu card printed on off white card 7 x 4½ ins with the arms of Patiala embossed in gilt at the head. The card has rounded corners and the cad edges are gilded. Fine condition. A scarce ephemeral survival from the days of lavish princely hospitality. The use of English style armorials is something that the Princes began to adopt around the time of the great Imperial Assemblage at Delhi in 1877, although the heraldry system planned for the sub continent was never fully evolved. Bahwalpur was an important Muslim state whose ruling Nawab, of the renowned Abbasid family, had a 17 gun salute in 1900.

As part of the 1809 Treaty of Amritsar, Ranjit Singh was confined to the right bank of the Sutlej. The first treaty with Bahawalpur was negotiated in 1833, the year after the treaty with Ranjit Singh for regulating traffic on the Indus. It secured the independence of the Nawab within his own territories and opened up the traffic on the Indus and Sutlej. The political relations of Bahawalpur with the paramount power, as at present existing, are regulated by a treaty made in October 1838, when arrangements were in progress for the restoration of Shah Shuja to the Kabul throne

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