Employment psychology

The agrarian system of Moslem India

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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 III. Selection and retention

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70 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA preventing this kind of extortion, owing to which the weak bore the burden of the strong: in the same way Farid told the headmen that he knew the oppressions and exactions of which they had been guilty cowards the peasants, and in order to check such malpractices, he fixed the payments to be made in connection with assessment, either the fees for measuring the area, or the fees for determining and collecting the amount of produce. Further, if in this matter we may trust the chronicler, who was much addicted to putting long speeches into his characters’ mouths, Farid declared the policy he intended to pursue. The headmen were to be confined strictly to the prescribed fees; the revenue was to be paid punctually, season by season; the assessment, though it was made on the area sown, was to take due account of the yield; but, a fair Demand having been fixed, collection was to be rigorous. Havingsettled these matters, he dismissed the peasants, who carried away with them written documents defining the terms of their tenure. Some villages however were in rebellion,” that is to say, they were not prepared to submit to the assignee’s authority; in order to deal with these, Farid raised local levies, plun- dered the rebel villages, and confined the inhabitants, until the headmen submitted and gave security for their good conduct in the future. In the case of certain rebellious Chiefs, his action was even more drastic, for he rejected their offers of submission as insincere, and exterminated the rebels, killing the men, enslaving their families, and bringing settlers from elsewhere to the ruined villages. As the result of these measures, we are told that rebellion ceased, the parganas quickly became prosperous, and Farid’s reputation as an expert manager spread far and wide; but after some time his position was affected by family quarrels, and, when he was displaced in favour of his half-brothers, he set out to seek his fortune at Ibrahim Lodi’s Court at Agra. It will be seen from this description that the situation which confronted Farid Khan was in all essentials similar to that which had prevailed in the fourteenth century. So far as the peasants were concerned, there was the funda- mental liability to pay a share of the produce to the King or his representative, and failure or refusal to pay

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