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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Title:: Chapter VC. The seventeenth century

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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 153 the Administration was gradually losing its hold on the -ountry, officials were getting out of hand, and strong men were beginning to assume an attitude of independence. Khwafi Khan tells a story (ii. 861), which is perhaps typical of what was going on. For some years before 1719, an Afghan named Husain Khan had gone into rebellion, and taken possession of some parganas in the neighbourhood of Lahore: the officials employed by the State, and by the assignees, were driven out of their charges, the Viceroy’s troops were more than once defeated, and Husain Khan was for a time practically independent, but ultimately he was killed in a skirmish with the Viceroy. Further South we get glimpses of the revolt of the Jats near Agra, which resulted eventually in the establishment of the State of Bharatpur! The local traditions of Oudh show that, by the end of the seventeenth century, Chiefs and officials alike were engaging in the struggle for territory ;? and these incidents cannot be regarded as exceptional. An assignee could no longer rely on the authority of the Emperor; he had to expect that other claimants to the revenue would appear, and he must either repel them by force, or submit to the loss of his expected Income. The eighteenth century was thus a period when de facto possession came to count for much more than title, and it was characterised by an apparent assimilation among the different classes of Intermediaries, of the kind which, as we have seen, occurred in the disorganisation of the Delhi kingdom after the death of Firiiz. This assimilation is ceflected in the history of the word Taluq,® which may be rendered as Dependency. The word and its derivatives appear occasionally in the earlier chronicles as denoting the relationship between a person and his position, whether official or territorial, but there is no sign of .any specialised t Khwafi, ii. In 1683, Khin Jahan was sent from the Deccan to punish the Jats (316). He failed, and there was more trouble in 1690 (394). The chronicler does not pursue the subject, but the story of the rise of the State can be read in the Imperial Gazetteer, viii. 74. * See, e.g., W. C. Benett, The Chief Clans of the Roy Bareilly District (revised edition, 1895), p. 36 ff. ' More precisely ta‘allug. The derivative word taluqdar, ‘holder of a talug,” though familiar, is best avoided in a general discussion. because ts meaning now varies in different provinces.

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