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 C. SOME FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PASSAGES SoME of the most important passages bearing on the agrarian svstem of the fourteenth century are difficult to follow, and extant translations, where any exist, are not always exact. The renderings of these passages offered below -are meant to be strictly literal, any departure from the original being indicated by brackets; the technical expressions are discussed in the notes which follow the translations. The clauses are set out, punctuated, and numbered for convenience of reference; the texts are continuous, and as a rule are not punctuated. [. ALAUDDIN'S REVENUE DECREE. (Text, Barni, 287. Translations, Elliot, iii. 182, and J.A.S.B. vol. xxxix. ». 282. the last with Blochmann’s notes). I. Sultin Aliuddin demanded from learned men rules and regulations, so that the Hindu(x) should be ground down, 2. and property and possessions, which are the cause of disaffection and rebellion, should not remain in his house; . 3. and in the payment of the Demand one rule should be made for all alike from Chief to sweeper(2); 4. and the Demand on the strong should not fall on the weak; 5. and so much should not remain to the Hindu(1) that they should ride on horseback, and carry weapons. and wear fine clothes, and enjoy themselves; 6. and to make two regulations(3) in pursuance of the afore- said object, which is the chief of all objects of government. 7. The first [regulation],—that those who cultivate, whether small or great, shall cultivate according to the rule of measure- ment and the biswa-yield(4), 8. and shall pay half without any deduction; 9. and in this paying there should be no distinction between Chiefs and sweepers(2); 10. and not a jot should be left to the Chiefs by way of Chiefs’ perquisites(s). (The text goes on to the second regulation, imposing a tax on grazing.)

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