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 VII. The outlying regions

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188 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA later history of this region, the bulk of which came under the rule of Asaf Jah, and is now comprised in the Hyderabad State: but Farming is said! to have been the rule throughout the eighteenth century, and to have continued until its abolition by Sir Salar Jang in, or shortly after, the year 1853. For the remaining kingdon, Bijapur, 1 have found scarcely any information. A few chance entries in Dutch records show that Farming existed in the seventeenth century, but they do not suffice even for such a general description as has been given for Golconda, and by the end of that century the bulk of the country had passed to the Marathas. In the absence of contemporary records, it is useless to speculate as to the details of its agrarian system during the period of Moslem rule. The agrarian position in the final southward extension of Moslem rule can be traced in the Regulations issued by Tipt Sultan in the year 1785 for a portion of his kingdom of Mysore. I have failed to find the Persian text of these regulations, but the extant translation? preserves many of the technical terms, and justifies the following description. Peasants in this region held their land (rule 3) on one of two tenures, either Contract, or Sharing; in the latter case, the State claimed half the produce, and apparently this tenure was preferred, because collectors were ordered to see that the proportion of land under it was maintained. Stress was laid on the peasants’ duty to cultivate (2), and on the improvement of cropping (4); and advances or other con- cessions (2, I5-I8, 21, 26-28) were authorised to secure these objects, while headmen were to be flogged (9) for default. Stress was laid also (34-36) on the construction and maintenance of irrigation-works and other improve- ments: and, speaking generally, the regulations embody the traditional policy, under which the peasants were to be kept under strict discipline, and encouraged, or com- pelled, to make the best use of their land. It was the collector's duty to attract peasants when the numbers were ¥ Imperial Gazetleey, xiii. 280. 2 British India Analysed, pp. 1 ff. The book is anonymous, but is catalogued in the British Museum under the name Greville

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