Home Secretariat

The Home Secretariat was created in 1885. In 1889 the important changes were made in the Judicial and Police Secretariats were combined with Home Department. The Home Department was in charges the Judicial, Police, Medical, Postal & Jail Departments. Entire records of this department are in Urdu. The following department under the Central of Home Department ;ole Railway, Post office Mint as Hyderabad and forest . The department records were transferred to Archives in 1957.

The below mentioned table supplies the information about the records of Home Secretariat:

S.No Nature of the Document Periodicity No.of Records
1 Adalat ul-Aliya (High Count) 1873-1874 A.D. 44
2 Adalat-i-Faujdari (Criminal Court) 1875-1883 A.D. 8,894
3 Adalat-i-Diwani (Civil Court) 1875-1883 A.D. 8,894
4 Adalat-i-Diwani-Khurd (Lower Civil Court) 1865-1818 A.D. 4,443
5 Adalat-i-Diwani-Zila (District Civil Court) 1863-1889 A.D. 10,638
6 Dar-ul-Qaza (Office of the Qazi) 1863-1880 A.D. 3,163
7 Majlis-i-Murafa (Appellate Tribunal) 1868-1888 A.D. 4,973
8 Majlis-i-Qaziya-i-Urub (Court dealing with the cases of the arabs) 1868-1888 A.D. 1,960
9 Majlis-i-Sahus (Court dealing with the case of Sahurkars) 1863-1886-A.D. 34,340
10 Mutafarriq Adalat (Court meant for miscellaneous cases) 1863-1886 A.D. 34,340
11 Office of the Madar-ul-Maham (Prime Minister) 1871-1882 A.D. 1,462
12 Office of the Secretary to the (Prime Minister) 1865-1884 A.D. 4,788
13 Police Administration, Judicial, Medical, Postal, Jails, Constitutional Affairs, Umoor-e-Mazhabi, Political, Confidential etc. (These records were transferred to Main Office from Secretariat recently) 1871-1949 A.D. 1,13,844
14 Sadr Taluqa (First Taluqdars Office) 1865-1873 A.D. 1,726

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