The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1804119261

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-188010

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Author:: Moreland, William Harrison http://d-nb.info/gnd/172263670

Title:: The agrarian system of Moslem India

Edition:: 2. ed. Reissue (d. Ausg. Cambridge) 1929; [Reprint]

Place of publication:: Delhi

Publisher:: Oriental Books, Munshiram Manoharlal

Year of publication:: 1968

Scope:: XVII, 296 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The 13th and 14th centuries

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52 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA Empire in that it represented only personal salary, and not the cost of maintaining troops; the pay of the provincial troops was separately provided, and had to be accounted for, as the orders of Ghiyasuddin show; and Alauddin’s decision to pay his troops in cash still represented the working rule at this period. The statement that the Assignments “bring in much more than their estimated value” is of particular interest, because, so far as I can find, it is the first reference in the literature to the Valuation of the kingdom, a topic which comes into prominence in the next reign. The extent to which Assignments were given cannot be deduced from this account, but facts recorded incidentally by Ibn Batfita! show that officials were, at least normally, paid in this way; and, since the salaries were very high, the area on which they were charged must have been extensive. Farming and Assignment may thus be regarded as the most prominent agrarian institutions of the reign. 6. FIRUZ SHAH (1351-1388) Muhammad Tughlaq was succeeded by his cousin, Firiiz, a man of mature age, who had been for some time employed in the administration of the kingdom. There is some little difficulty in estimating the value of the contemporary authorities for this reign. Apart from a brief memoir written by the King himself, we are dependent on the records left by Ziya Barni and Shams Afif. The former deals only with the first six years of the reign: it is clear that this period was a far happier one, at least for the bureaucracy at headquarters, than the later years of Muhammad Tughlaq; and I think that the closing chapters of the chronicle show definite signs of failing powers. Ziya Barni died at an advanced age before his self-chosen task could be finished, and what he wrote regarding this reign consists largely of loose and rhetorical eulogy, the language of which must be discounted at a rather high rate. The other chronicler, Shams Afif, grew up under Firtiz, by whom ! See especially iii. 400-402, where details are given of the salaries allotted to Ibn Batiita and his companions; in each case an appropriate Assignment was made.

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