Online auction offers original pages of nawabi era

Rare originals are up for grabs in an online auction. More than two centuries of history that Awadh shared with the British East India Company are kept somewhere in United Kingdom, waiting for antique fans to reach out. Printed on deckle edged paper, 210-year-old Parliamentary Papers (PP) of the first edition copy of all communications, correspondence and reports to the secret committee by the Governor General of the British regime, with respect to Nawab Saadat Ali Khan, before and after the historic Treaty of Lucknow of 1801 was signed, have found their way on the internet in an auction that will continue till Thursday.