Employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-47263

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Link, Henry Charles; Thorndike, Edward L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/118802127

Title:: Employment psychology

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: MacMillan

Year of publication:: 1924

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 440 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Psychological tests

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184 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA which, so far as it is possible to judge, appears to have been conceived and executed on statesmanlike lines. The work was entrusted to an officer named Murshid Quli Khan! who was appointed Diwan, first in the two southern provinces, and then for the whole region. He was a foreigner, a native of Khorasan, who came to India in the service of Ali Mardan Khan, and enjoyed a share of the lavish patronage which fell to the followers of that officer after he transferred his allegiance from Persia to India. Murshid Quli’s first recorded appointment was that of Faujdar in the Punjab hills; then he became Master of the Stables, and then Bakhshi of Lahore, from which post he was sent to the Deccan as Diwan. He had thus, so far as the chronicles show, no previous experience of revenue work in India. The immediate need of the country was to collect peasants with adequate resources, and in this matter the practice of the North was followed, in that reliance was placed mainly on the village headmen. The headmen, we are told, were encouraged and rewarded, advances in cash were given to them, and competent men were chosen for those villages where the headmen had disappeared. At the same time the possibilities of restoration were ascertained by an extensive survey, in which the culturable lands were dis- tinguished from the unproductive areas. This, too, was in accordance with northern practice, if we may accept Badifini’s account that Akbar’s collectors began by ex- amining the whole country, and selecting the areas capable of cultivation. The novelty of Murshid Quli Khan's work lay in the methods of assessment. The account which we are following states that up to this time neither Measurement nor Sharing had been t For Murshid Quli Khan's work, see Maasirulumra, III, 493 ff., and Khwafi, i. 714, 731 ff The text of Khwafi is fluid, and the passages on pp. 714, 731 are contradictory in details, and so condensed as to be barely intelligible by themselves; but the full account given from a single MS., p. 732m, is clear and precise. It agrees closely with that in the Maasiru- lumra, so closely that probably either one was copied from the other with verbal changes, or the two were taken from a common source; in either case they must be regarded as constituting a single authority. This Murshid Quli must of course be distinguished from the officer of the same name, who was so prominent a figure in Bengal half a centurv later, and who is better known bv his title of Jafar Khan.

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