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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APPENDIX A 215 that was done was to fix an arbitrary Valuation, and allow the Chief to retain his actual position, but in point of form as an assignee instead of an independent ruler. The contrast between the Valuation, or estimated Income, and the Hasil, or Income actually realised, is brought out in a passage in the same chronicle (II. 397), which records the grant as reward (inim) of the port of Surat, the Valuation of which was one kror of dams, or 24 lakhs of rupees, but the [ncome (hisil) had risen to 5 lakhs owing to the increase in foreign trade. Similarly we read (II. 108) that the Income of Bagliana had fallen to one-half of the Valuation after the famine of 1630; and numerous passages in this chronicle and in those which follow it give the Valuation of districts or provinces as an indication of their wealth or importance. As is explained in Chapter V, Assignments had become un- popular early in the eighteenth century, and, in the troubles of the time, the idea of a Valuation seems to have become un- familiar. The changes introduced early in the British period, under which the Demand was assessed for a term of years, resulted in a coalescence of the two ideas denoted by jama, because a Demand intended to be paid for a term of years is substantially the same thing as an estimate of the Income derivable during those years. Thus in’ modern times, the “revenue” is both Demand and Valuation, because the two figures have coalesced; but the idea of Valuation still persists in the “nominal revenue,” which is assessed for administrative purposes on revenue-free villages. This nominal revenue is not meant to be paid, and consequently is not Demand; it is in fact a Valuation calculated on the income of the landholders, on the basis of which various cesses are assessed

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