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 VII. The outlying regions

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Chapter VII. The Outlying Regions. 1. THE DECCAN I HAD hoped to conclude this essay by an account of the agrarian developments in the different States into which the first Moslem kingdom of Delhi broke up, but the materials within my reach have proved to be too scanty for such an undertaking. In the case of Malwa, I have found nothing beyond a passage! showing that Assignments were common in the early part of the sixteenth century; while the available chronicles of Gujarat allow us to see only that, during the period of independence, the great bulk of the country was shared between assignees and tributary Chiefs. In neither case have I been able to discover any contemporary account of the position of the peasants under the local dynasties; while it will be recalled that the descriptions of these two provinces given in the Ain are obscure, so that it would be dangerous to base any argument on them regarding the conditions which prevailed at the time of the Mogul conquest. These two kingdoms must therefore be passed over, and this chapter confined to two regions—the Deccan and Bengal. The term Deccan denotes a geographical region rather than a precise unit of administration, and has to be inter- preted by the facts of any particular period; but, in the language of the Moslem chroniclers, it usually meant what- ever area, bcyond the line of the Narbada, was under Moslem rule, its southern, and fluctuating, boundary being the Hindu territory subject to Vijayanagar. We have seen in Chapter II that Alauddin Khalji carried the Moslem i Bayley, 353, for Malwa; 5-16, and passim, for Gujarat. ilo

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