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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THE REIGN OF AKBAR (1556-1605) 119 the West, TATTA, or Lower Sind, was assessed by Sharing, the State’s claim being one-third of the produce; I have found nothing to show whether the Demand was made in produce, or was commuted in cash. The Mogul province of AJMER represents generally the modern Rajputana, excluding the eastern portion, which belonged to Agra. In Akbar’s time the province was heterogeneous, some parts being administered on the Regulation system, while the remainder was left in the hands of the Chiefs. The standard of the revenve-Demand was low, being described as one-seventh or one-eighth of the produce, “and money little,” a cryptic phrase which may possibly indicate that payment in kind prevailed. Judging by the form of the statistics, three districts, Ajmer, Ranthambhor, and Nagor, were administered mainly on the Regulation system. Of the other districts enumerated, Bikanir was obviously left entirely to the Chief; Sirohi was divided between four Chiefs; while Jodhpur and Chitor were held mainly by Chiefs, though some parganas in them were directly administered. Scheduses of assessment-rates are given for all districts except Bikanir and Sirohi, for which they “had not been prepared”; but in the cases of Jodhpur and Chitor they must be taken as applicable only to the subdivisions administered directly by the Mogul authorities. MALWA was another heterogeneous province. The Regu- lation system had been introduced, at least formally, but it certainly did not extend to the districts of Marosor (Mandasor) on the West, or Garha on the East, the figures for which can be interpreted only on the view that they were held by various Chiefs; while there is room for doubt as to the position in other portions of the province. The actual facts cannot be ascertained in detail! but so much is t Ain, i. 381. The grouping of assessment circles in Malwa is unintelli- gible. Reading the text as it stands, on the lines followed in other provinces, Ujjain and Raisin would be in one circle, but the schedule shows them as separate, and some words have apparently slipped out of the description. The most probable reading is that (1) no schedules were framed for Garha and Marosor; (2) one schedule applied to Chanderi and Raisin; (3) a second schedule to Mando; (4) a third, named Ujjain, to the remaining seven districts. Readers who are dependent on Jarrett’s translation will find the figures for Garha under the erroneous heading Kanauj (ii. 199).

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