The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1804119261

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

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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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100 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA and the language addressed in the orders to local officials, suggest that, in practice, grantees were subject to inter- ference by subordinate authorities also. While, however, a Grant might be summarily with- drawn or modified, there is reason to think that its con- ferment created in the mind of the recipient some sort of expectation that he and his family would continue to benefit by the liberality of the State Apart from the published documents which have been quoted above, I have heard of quite a number of others, in libraries or in private hands, the survival of which suggests that they were considered to be worth keeping. Such documents cannot be regarded as title-deeds to a particular area, or to a stated income; but they constitute evidence that at some period in the past the family possessing them had benefited by the King’s favour, and in the Moslem period that fact probably counted for something when a new request was put forward. 4. THE COLLECTORS The account given in the last section of the appointment of collectors throughout the northern provinces follows the official version, which, in my opinion, is correct as far as it goes, but is in some respects incomplete. In this section I propose to examine the account contained in the chronicle written by Abdul Qadir Badaini, which at first sight con- flicts seriously with Abul Fazl’s story. In considering Badatini’s version, it must be remembered that he wrote as a disappointed man, for he had not received the pre- ferment he expected, while his religious feelings were out- raged by Akbar’s attitude towards Islam; he was therefore definitely on the opposition side. I should myself be inclined to describe his chronicle as reminiscences, or even journalism, rather than history. He selected his topics less for their intrinsic importance than for their interest to himself; he did not, so far as I can judge, indulge in romance; but he presented the facts he selected, as coloured by his personal feelings or prejudices, in bitter epigrammatic language which presumably gave him satisfaction, but which

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