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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THE REIGN OF AKBAR (1556-1605) 109 which was still in process of compilation, and was in fact incomplete at the time of his death. This is a mere guess, arising out of the facts, but not established by them; my only justification for offering it is that the problem must present itself to any student of the subject. With the completion of the Imperial Commissioner’s work, we reach a period of apparent stability in the revenue administration, a period which, if we may rely on the silence of the authorities, continued to the close of Akbar’s reign. The changes made in the 24th year, the intro- duction of assessment-rates fixed in money, and the re- version to the practice of granting Assignments, con- stituted the foundations: but the need still existed for re- forming procedure, both in the districts and in the Ministry, so far as concerned those portions of the northern provinces which were retained under direct administration. The district procedure was reformed by Todar Mal, that of the Ministry by Fathulla Shirazi, and, in order to complete this section, it is necessary only to refer to some changes sub- sequently made in the organisation of the Ministry. In the 34th year Todar Mal died; two years later, the work of the Reserved areas was distributed on a territorial basis among four officers working at headquarters under the Minister; and in the 4oth year a more important change! was carried out, a separate Diwan being posted to each province, to work directly under the Revenue Minister's orders. I take this to mark the beginning of the adminis- trative dyarchy, Diwani and Faujdari, which is so familiar a feature of the next two centuries. Henceforward the revenue administration in each province was conducted under the orders of the Revenue Minister, and independently of the officers charged with the general administration. Up to this year the provincial Diwan had been an officer of the Viceroy’s staff; for the future he was to be an officer on the staff of an Imperial department. ! Akbarnama, iii. 605, 670. I had not come across this latter passage when I suggested (J.R.A.S., 1922, p. 22) that the change might date from the reign of Jahangir.

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