The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1751319059

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129553

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Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs & commissaires de société, des banques, banquiers et agents de change de France et de Belgique

Place of publication:: Paris [u.a.]

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 1316 S.

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Title:: Répertoire des administrateurs, commissaires, liquidateurs, curateurs, etc., de sociétés

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THE 13tH AND 14tH CENTURIES 55 the revenue due from their provinces. The position of the Governor was therefore such as to make for fair treatment of the revenue-payers, and the evidence of rural prosperity during the reign suggests that on the whole the peasants had a reasonable chance! Cases are on record where the King’s discrimination was at fault, as when a Deputy- Governor, who had already been dismissed for misconduct in Samana, was appointed to Gujarat, and after some time had to be dismissed again, to the great relief of the people?; but there are not many such cases in the chronicles, and they may, I think, be regarded as exceptional. At this period, however, the Assignee must have been more important to the peasants than the Governor, for Firiiz relied largely on the Assignment system. The salaries of his officers were fixed in cash on what appears to be an exceedingly liberal scale, and the corresponding amount of revenue was assigned to them, while the practice of assigning villages to individual troopers was revived. Shams Afif doubtless exaggerates, when he says (p. 95) that all the villages and parganas were assigned to the army, for the King must have had some revenue for himself; but it may fairly be inferred that Assignment was now the usual ar- rangement throughout the kingdom. The precise nature of the Assignments given to troopers is obscure. Some passages in the chronicles suggest that, according to the usual practice, the troopers assumed charge of the villages assigned to them; while another, and very difficult, passage can be read in the sense that a trooper was not placed in direct contact with his village, but merely received a document entitling him to draw his pay from it, and that he discounted this document with one of the i Barni, 574, says that as the result of the King’s orders, the provinces became cultivated and tillage extended widely. Afif, 295, says that not a single village in the River Country remained uncultivated, and that in the provinces there were ‘‘ four cultivated villages to the kroh’ (14 miles). The language of both writers is rhetorical, but we may safely infer from it that there was much improvement compared with the preceding reign. More satisfactory evidence is contained in a later passage (Afif, 321), which records the preservation for sport of a large area in Rohilkhand; the extension of cultivation had reduced the supply of game, and, if this area had not been preserved, it would, we are told, have come under cultivation like the rest of the kingdom. 2 Afif, 454, 455. A Deputy-Governor was appointed in cases when the Governor held also a post at Court.

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