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 VC. The seventeenth century

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128 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA Indian institution, but was avowedly copied from Central Asian practice. I have not found records to show the extent to which such grants were made during the seventeenth century, but they seem to have been very rare. In the twenty years covered by the Badshihnima, the only case I have noted is that of a successful doctor, who, among other rewards, received a village by this title; and later records contain no suggestion that it became of practical importance during the rest of the century. Such is the meagre record of Jahangir’s personal activities in connection with the agrarian system. A few sidelights on its working during his reign can be obtained from other sources. We know! that, in some cases at least, Viceroys and other high officers were appointed on farming-terms; but there is nothing to suggest that such farmers were entitled to receive any part of the revenue from the Reserved areas, which were administered by the Diwan on behalf of the Emperor. These farms of high office must thus be dis- tinguished from the arrangements in force in portions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. At that period the Governor-on-farming-terms enjoyed the entire revenue, of which the land contributed probably by far the largest share; under Jahéngir, the land-revenue was controlled by a separate department, and the provincial Viceroy would enjoy only so much of it as was yielded by his personal Assignment. It is possible that the Diwans may have farmed out some of the Reserved lands, but I know of no evidence on the point; there is no doubt, however, that assignees? sometimes farmed their Income, and consequently we must recognise that Farming was familiar in practice to the peasants at this period. ! Roe, 210: Terpstra, App. VI. According to the Viceroy of Bihar’s statements, as recorded by Roe, he paid 11 lakhs yearly for the post. He received 3.6 lakhs as ““ pension’ (presumably indm), and made 7 lakhs out of the pay of his rank (ma#nsab) ; the net result would be that his actual income depended on what he could make out of the province by mis- cellaneous exactions, his authorised receipts being more than covered by the amount of the farm. - There is, however, obvious room for mistakes in figures recorded in this way, and it would be dangerous to base any argument on the details. ? Pelsaert (p. 54) recorded that an assignee who was in attendance on the king either sent his employees to manage his Assignment. or else handed it over to a collector on farming terms.

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