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.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VC. The seventeenth century

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Chapter V. The Seventeenth Century. 1. ‘JAHANGIR AND SHAHJAHAN (1605-1658) THE information which we possess regarding the agrarian system in the first half of the seventeenth century is scanty and incomplete. Ihave found no relevant official documents for this period; the contemporary chronicles indicate no important changes; and, if we could rely on their silence, we should be justified in inferring that the methods of assessment elaborated under Akbar, and described in the last chapter, remaineu in operation in their integrity. This inference is, however, negatived decisively by general orders issued by Aurangzeb in the year 1665, which show that by that time Akbar’s methods had become almost entirely obsolete; and we must conclude that between 1594, when the Ain was completed, and the accession of Aurangzeb, either unrecorded changes had been formally made, or else—what is, I think, somewhat more probable—that Akbar’s institu- tions had gradually decayed. The position disclosed by Aurangzeb’s orders, which will be examined in detail in the next section, is that, while Sharing was authorised in certain, unspecified, backward tracts, the general rule of the Empire was Group-assessment, with the alternatives of Measurement and Sharing held in reserve, to be used only in cases where the headmen would not agree to a reasonable revenue-Demand for the year. I can trace no orders authorising such a change, and my reasons for thinking that probably it came about of itself are, firstly, that, if formal orders were issued, we should expect to find some mention of them in the chronicles, and, secondly, that gradual decay is what might be expected in the circumstances of the period. It will be apparent from what has been said in the last

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