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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210 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA the sense of Demand; the only exceptions which have been noticed are a few rhetorical passages where the plural is used to signify exactions in a wide sense—" demands.” not “Demand.” —and these are easily recognised. 2. MAL. The general sense is ‘‘wealth,” or “ property,” but in administrative use two special senses are found. (¢) In the military department. the word meant ‘booty taken in war.” () In fiscal administration, it ordinarily meant Demand; but occasionally it was used more widely to denote the whole system under which Demand was assessed and collected, as in the phrase mulki wa mali, which corresponds to the now familiar “general” and. “revenue” administration. The two speciai senses are sometimes difficult to distinguish. Thus in a passage in the Akbarndma (iii. 316), Mr. Beveridge rendered “revenue,” where I think “booty” would make better sense, because the officers whose morale was being destroyed by untimely claims for mal were not usually Demand-payers, the point is, I think, that they were being pressed to account for booty which they were alleged to have misappropriated. Ordinarily, however, there is no difficulty in discovering which sense is intended. Mil is sometimes found in combination. Malwajibl is a recognised term for Demand, and is not ambiguous. Malguzar is usually adjectival, meaning “Demand-paying”’; the modern use as a substantive, ‘‘ Demand-payer,” has not been noted in the literature earlier than Khwafi Khan, where it appears (e.g. i. 704). Malguzari denotes the act, or process, of Demand- paying. I have not found it used in its modern sense of Demand in the Persian literature; but the sense occurs in one of the earliest British records (Rev. Sel., I. 169) 3. Next may be noted a group of expressions which are picturesque but also precise, denoting Demand, regarded as the King’s remuneration. They are compounded of a word meaning wages, such as paranj or dastmuzd, and another meaning sovereignty (as jahdnbani), or guardianship (as pasbani) They have been noticed only in sixteenth-centurv documents. e.g. Ain, i. 208. 4. BAzkuwAsT and BAZYAFT are occasionally used for the Demand on cultivation, but they belong properly to the Accounts side of the administration. and usually mean “recovery”; that

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