Holländische Wirtschaftsgeschichte

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Identifikator:: 1744885710

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-117895

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Baasch, Ernst http://d-nb.info/gnd/117692018

Title:: Holländische Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: VI, 632 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Kapitel. Aufstieg und Niedergang der holländischen Wirtschaft zur Zeit der Republik

Collection:: Economics Books

168 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA Brotherhood but containing also other cultivators outside the circle. In the next section I pass to a consideration of the methods by which the King’s share of the produce was paid. 3. THE PEASANT’S PAYMENTS At this period there is practically no trace of direct relations between salaried officials and individual peasants. The person entitled to collect the King’s share of the produce, whether he held the position of Farmer, Assignee, or Chief, ordinarily came to terms with the Headmen of the village for payment of a fixed sum in cash, determined with reference to the productive capacity of the village, but not assessed in detail on individual fields or holdings. Now, as under Aurangzeb, it was the Headmen’s business to realise from the individual peasants the amount which had to be paid. The King’s share also was unchanged in amount, normally half the produce, and ranging downwards in particular cases to one-third; the recipient aimed at getting a sum of money representing approximately this share, or if possible a little more, while the Headmen aimed at securing a lower assessment by concealing in various ways a portion of the actual production of the village. The amount of the payment was still commonly fixed for the year, but there was in some places a tendency to repeat the assess- ment until the amount became “customary” in the eyes of both parties. The pitch of the revenue-Demand necessarily set the standard of the amounts to be paid by individual peasants, since it was obviously better for the Brotherhood that land should lie uncultivated than that its cultivation should involve the Headman in liability for more than he could realise from it. As regards the peasants outside the Brother- hood, the usual practice was to charge them with the revenue, plus some small addition representing the Brotherhood’s profit; in the Records this additional charge is sometimes, but not always, included in the rates entered as payable, and consequently these sometimes exceed the standard of 1 Delhi Records, p. 14.

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