The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1804119261

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-188010

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Moreland, William Harrison http://d-nb.info/gnd/172263670

Title:: The agrarian system of Moslem India

Edition:: 2. ed. Reissue (d. Ausg. Cambridge) 1929; [Reprint]

Place of publication:: Delhi

Publisher:: Oriental Books, Munshiram Manoharlal

Year of publication:: 1968

Scope:: XVII, 296 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. The Sayyid and Afghan dynasties

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82 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA furnishes some details which are wanting in the parallel passages in the Ain; and reference will be made further on to a case in which the former seems deliberately to supply the text of official documents which had been omitted from the latter. We must then read the two together as com- plementary; neither tells us all we want to know, but nearly all is contained in one or other; and in the case of some gaps, at least, we may suspect that the editing was at fault. In the description which follows, I begin with the history of the heart of the Empire, from the Punjab to Allahabad, tracing first the assessments, then the Assign- ments, and then the course of certain scandals which supervened: I then examine the working of the Regulation- system in its final form; and conclude with a survey of the arrangements in force throughout the Empire in the latter portion of the reign. 2. THE METHODS OF ASSESSMENT This section relates mainly to the country which, from the 24th regnal years onwards, was included in the five provinces of Lahore, Delhi, Agra, Awadh,! and Allahabad. A sixth province, Multan, comes into the story in the 15th year, and a seventh, Malwa, also appears in the records but the figures relating to it are so eccentric as to suggest that in practice it must have had an assessment system of its own. Put very briefly, the story which has to be told is one of three sets of assessment-rates, which may be called respectively ‘‘Sher Shah’s,” ‘the ganiingo,” and “the ten-year”; all three come under the general type which I have described as Measurement, that is to say, a charge, varying with the crop, on the area sown; and the transition from one set of rates to another represents a gradual ap- proximation to a workable system. As has been indicated in the last chapter, Akbar, or rather, the Regent, Bairam Khan, began by adopting for general use a schedule of assessment-rates which had been framed by Sher Shah? on the basis ot claiming for the State 17 retain the spelling Awadh as a tacit reminder that Akbar’s province differed materially in extent from the country now known as Oudh. 2 Ain, i. 297, 347. The passages bearing on this section are discussed a. Appendix E.

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