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 VI. The last phase in Northern India

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Chapter VI. The Last Phase in Northern India. I. INTRODUCTORY THE last phase of the Moslem agrarian system in Northern India must be studied mainly in the initial proceedings of the administrations which succeeded the Moslem power; and the most suitable area for this purpose comprises the country which at the opening of the nineteenth century was described as the Ceded and Conquered Provinces together with the ‘“Benares Province or Zemindarry,” or, in the nomenclature of to-day, the United Provinces ex- clusive of Oudh, Kumaiin, and parts of Bundelkhand. The extant records relating to this area may be regarded as sufficient for the present purpose; but at the same time they are incomplete, and also treacherous, so that it will be well to explain the exact position in some little detail. The earliest English administrators in this region were necessarily ignorant of the local conditions; while their proceedings were governed by orders founded on ex- perience gained in Bengal and Bihar, experience which was in some respects seriously misleading. They knew that the primary business of the administration was to arrange for collecting the State’s share of the produce of the land, and the first task assigned to them by the orders issued in Calentta was to find the landowners, and compound with them for its collection on the lines which had been adopted ! The revenue history of the Benares province begins in the year 1787, when Jonathan Duncan became Resident: he was authorised to carry out a settlement of the revenue, and his operations were given legal force by Bengal Regulation II of 1795. The ‘ Ceded Provinces,” acquired in 1801, surrounded Oudh on three sides, and comprised the present Gorakh- pur division on the East, Rohilkhand on the West, and the lower Doib on the South and South-West; Farrukhiabid was added a year later, The ‘Conquered Provinces’ included the rest of the Doib and small areas to the West of the Jumna, while parts of Bundelkhand were acquired about the same time.

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