Employment psychology

The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1028407564

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

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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 II. Trade tests and other applications of employment psychology

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THE 13tH AND 1l4tH CENTURIES 47 more than a third or a fourth of his contract, he went into rebellion, and shut himself up in the fort. He was, however, easily captured, and was sent as a prisoner to Delhi. The other case! is that of the farmer of the province of Karra. The chronicler’s scorn for him is expressed in language too idiomatic for exact translation, but “a con- temptible, drug-soaked, little idiot” gives, T think, the general sense. He took the farm without capital, adherents, or resources of any kind, failed to collect even a tenth part of the sum he had promised to pay, and then, gathering a rabble round him, went into rebellion, and assumed the title of king. The rebellion was easily crushed by the nearest Governor, the rebel farmer was flayed, and his skin duly sent to Delhi. Even if we assume that the chronicler’s description of these two speculators is overdrawn, the fact remains that they were speculators pure and simple, with no local ties, and no claim to be governors except that their offers of revenue had been accepted. Nor would we be justified in inferring that these two farms were exceptional.? The only reason for the chronicler’s record of them is that they resulted in rebellions, the heading under which the episodes are recounted, but their terms are stated in such a matter-of-fact way that it is reasonable to conclude that they were typical of the ordinary provincial arrangements, after the attempt at centralised administration had broken down. We hear of the speculators who failed and rebelled, 1 Barni, 487. The description of the farmer is marduki bhangri bhangi khurafati. The first word means ‘‘ mannikin,” hence “contemptible fellow,” and the last ‘‘nonsensical’’ or ‘‘idiotic.”” Bhangri denotes addiction to the use of hemp-drugs. My friend, Mr. R. Paget Dewhurst, describes bhangi as a meaningless appositive, or jingle, with possibly a punning allusion to its sense of ‘‘sweeper.” I do not myself take the passage to assert that a man of the sweeper-caste had been allowed to tarm the province, but this interpretation cannot be absolutely ruled out: further on (p. 505), Barni complains bitterly of Muhammad Tughlaqg’s patronage of men of low caste, barbers, liquor-sellers, gardeners, weavers, and so on, who were made equal to nobles, and received high Court ap- pointments and provinces. Acceptance of a sweeper’'s tender is not therefore absolutely inconceivable, but probably the word conveys nothing more than abusive assonance. : Ibn Batidta was told (iv. 49) that the entire Deccan country had been farmed to a Hindu for 17 krors, and that he was flayed for default. This may possibly be a distorted account of the first episode given in the text, but it reads more like a different occurrence.

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