In 1793, Boddam was appointed to Saran district as Judge of Diwani Adawlut and Magistrate.
A watercolour of the house, belonging to about 1810, is preserved in the British Library, number Add.Or.3203.
[1] Boddam was a scholar of Persian and made a translation of the Rāmāyaṇa from Persian, the latter in turn prepared from the Sanskrit in about 1794 by Anand G'yan, a Professor at the Benares Sanskrit College.
The English translation is preserved among Boddam's papers in the British Library.
Among these is a copy of the commentary at-Talwih fi Kashfi Haqaiq at Tanqih (التلويح إلى کشف حقائق التنقيح) of Al-Taftazani, which carries Boddam's signature and the date “Calcutta, May 1st, 1787.” The manuscript was cataloged by Otto Loth in his Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office.