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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110 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA 5. THE WORKING OF THE REGULATION SYSTEM The working of Akbar’s revenue system in what appears to be its final form, and which may be called the Regulation system, must be studied in those chapters! of the Ain which prescribe the duties of the collector and his clerk. These chapters belong to a group which can be read only as con- taining the working orders for various officers in force at the time when the Ain was compiled. They are not essays in history, or descriptions of a system, but, alike in form and in content, they are definitely orders, assuming a knowledge of the system, and prescribing the manner in which it is to be worked. As such, we may safely take them as the orders actually in force; some points in them indicate that Todar Mal’s proposals of the 27th year had been incorporated, with later modifications in detail; other provisions suggest a gradual development by way of piecemeal amendment, such as is tamiliar in codes of administrative practice at the present day; and there is no room for doubt as to their nature and purpose. The chapters in this group show some curious contrasts. In the case of the Viceroy of a province, stress is laid rather on general conduct than on specific duties, and a high ideal is presented in rhetorical language, fortified with apposite quotations from the poets; but, as we go down the scale, the rhetoric disappears, and details of specific duties become prominent, till we reach the local treasurer, the chapter relating to whom can be compared only to a portion of the Civil Account Code used in the British period. Con- fining our attention to the chapters dealing with the col- lector and his clerk, it is obvious, in the first place, that their complete application extended only to the areas Reserved for direct administration; as we have seen in an earlier section, the Assignment system had by this time been restored in the North and, while the sanctioned schedules of assessment-rates were binding on assignees, there 1s nothing to suggest that any attempt was made to enforce on them uniformity of procedure in detail. So far as I 1 Ain, i. 285-288. These chapters must be read together, the details in the latter supplementing the more general provisions of the former.

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