DAFTAR – I – ISTIFA

The word Istifa means accomplishment of work. Datar-i-Istifa was one of the old daftars of the Asaf Jahi period, which preserved sanads and other papers relating to grants. The grantee presented his original sanads to the Daftar-i- Istifa, which prepared the duplicate and retained the same under its custody after giving the original to the grantee. In this way the function of this Daftar was to prepare the duplicate copies of the original sanads and maintain them. These duplicates were also useful for attesting the copies of the sanads and ahkams as issued by the Daftar-i-Diwani and Daftar-i-Mal and verifying the original papers as well.

In compliance with the Farman dated: 2nd Ramazan 1323 H/ 31st October, 1905 A.D. the records of this Daftar were transferred to the Daftar-i-Diwani. All the records are in Persian and Urdu.

The particulars of the documents of Daftar-i-Istifa are given below:

S.No	Nature of the Document	Periodicity	No.of Documents
1	Ahkam-i-Tankhwahdaran and others relating to army.	-	1375 (11 Bastas)
2	Asnad-i-Jama-o-Kharach relating to Army.	-	5130 (38 Bastas)
3	Awarija-i-Tankhwahadaran.	-	2100 (15 Bastas)
4	Copies of Sanads pertaining, to Deccan suba	1133-1275 H/ 1720-1858 A.D.	161
5	Copies of Parwanajat pertain Deccan suba	1127-1238 H/1714-1822 A.D.	1782 (11 Bastas)
6	Copies of Parwanajat pertain Deccan suba	1180-1240 H/1766-1824 A.D.	3800 (19 Bastas)
7	Copies of Ahkam pertaining to Deccan suba	1190-1272 H/1776-1855 A.D.	3388 (12 Bastas)
8	Qabz-ul-Wasil of Tankhwahdaran relating to army	-	2830
9	Siyaha-i-Tankhwahadaran relating to army	-	3100 (15 Bastas)
10	Statement of Jagirdars and Inamdars	-	1680