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) 121 points clearly to assessment on the village or larger unit, but leaves room for doubt whether the assessment was made with the headmen or with farmers. In this position there is of course no record of sanctioned assessment rates, and the eighteenth-century tradition that Todar Mal made 1 detailed assessment on the individual peasants is un- supported by any contemporary evidence. ORISSA appears in the Account as part of Bengal, and its assessment methods are not described separately. Judging by the form of the statistics, the position was similar to that of Bengal; but two districts, Kalang Dandpat and Rij Mahandra, were obviously held as units by Chiefs, and there are indications of Chiefs’ holdings in some of the other districts on a smaller scale. To the East of Orissa lay a region which is sometimes referred to as the province of Gondwana, but no such province had been constituted at this time. The territory was in possession of independent Chiefs, or of Chiefs who had made some kind of submission; and the holdings of the latter class are entered under adjoining provinces. Passing over this territory, we come to BERAR. At the time of conquest, this province had for a long time been under nasag, and this arrangement was maintained by Akbar; as in the case of Bengal, it remains uncertain whether the village-assess- ments were made with the headmen or with farmers. The creater portion of the province was, however, obviously left in the possession of Chiefs, and some subdivisions, though their names appear in the statistics, were admittedly still independent. KHANDESH, the Dandes of the Ain, was a small province, organised as a single district, lying just South of the Narbada. The assessment system in force is not specified, but the form of the statistics suggests that it may have been similar to that of Berar. GUJARAT, the last province on the list, presents certain difficulties. It was not brought under direct administra- tion in the 1gth year, so assessment rates for it could not have been prepared on the usual lines, nor are any assess- ment schedules on record. In the text of the Account we find the phrase ‘mostly nasag, and Measurement is little

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