Archives & Record Targets
Repositories and records capable of moving family memory toward documentary proof.
Punjab State Archives
Patiala State Records — History (Maharaja Bhupinder Singh); Ijlas-i-Khas; Dharmarth; Deodhi/Deorhi Mualla; Toshakhana; accounts/pay; royal education
Exact Mulk Raj file number: not yet identified. These heads could establish appointment, title, salary/stipend, household affiliation, tutor role, gifts, travel, retirement or succession.
British Library — India Office Records
IOR/R/1/1/425 • IOR/R/1/1/433
IOR/R/1/1/425 covers Patiala affairs and Bhupinder Singh’s investiture, 1908–1910; IOR/R/1/1/433 covers the 1910–11 England journey and administration during his absence. The open question is whether either names relevant personal staff or advisers.
Hitotsubashi University — Institute of Economic Research Library
Patiala State (statistics: 1913) — microforms 2999–3002
Target: contents, “Government officials” table if present, and adjacent establishment/salary tables—potential evidence of official positions or nomenclature in 1913.
Rajasthan State Archives — Alwar Branch
c. 1895–1915 applications, Darbar petitions, royal-household/Dharmarth establishment, appointment/pay/service registers
Exact Mulk Raj reference: not yet identified. This is the strongest route to the family-reported Alwar phase and potential guru recommendation.
Municipal Corporation Patiala
Historic house number, property/mutation, tax assessment, building sanction, site/cadastral maps
Could establish ownership/construction of the family-identified house opposite Shahi Samadhan and test the remembered height dispute.
Sanskrit institutional archives
Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya • Sri Ranveer Sanskrit Vidyalaya/BHU • Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University
Target: student/disciple rolls, guru biographies, shastrarth records, correspondence and “Punjabi pathha.” The Shivkumar Shastri/Darbhanga Pathshala link remains a hypothesis.