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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120 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA clear that, ot the three assessment circles which are recorded, only one (Raisin-Chanderi) had a workable schedule of rates. The second circle, that of Mando, had no rates or any spring crops except melons, while of the autumn crops rates are entered only for sugarcane, cotton, henna, and waternuts, a ludicrously inadequate presentation of the cropping of this region. The third schedule, which ap- parently applied to seven districts, is equally defective for the autumn crops, while in the spring it gives merely poppy, oilseeds, melons, and some vegetables. Schedules of assessment rates which ignore the staple produce of Malwa, millets, wheat, and pulses, cannot possibly present a correct view of the actual position; and it is scarcely conceivable that the compilers of the Ain should have been able to give some, but not all, of the sanctioned rates actually in force. The only explanation of the data which presents itself to me is that the Regulation system had been applied in its integrity to two districts, Raisin and Chanderi, but else- where all that had been done was to fix cash-rates for a few market-crops, leaving the food-grains to be assessed on some other system, the nature of which is not on record. B1HAR! was not one of the provinces which were brought under direct administration in the 1gth year, and hence there cannot have been adequate data for preparing schedules of cash-rates five years later, nor are any such schedules on record. The Account shows, however that the Regulation system had been applied to most -of the province, and we may conjecture that this step was taken at some date between the 25th and the 4oth year. The system had not been extended to the district of Monghyr, and in some other districts there are subdivisions which seem to have been left under Chiefs; in all, 138 subdivisions out of the total of 199 were ‘‘ Regulation.” In BENGAL Akbar maintained the method of assessment which was in operation at the time when the province was annexed. It is described as nasag, a term which, as is explained in Appendix D, is of uncertain import; it 1 In some works of the period the name Bihir is limited to the country South of the Ganges, but in the Ain it bears substantially its present meaning, including Saran. Champaran, and Tirhut on the North of the river

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