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 227 (5) ‘Chiefs’ perquisites’; hugiig-i khutan. It can be inferred from the passage which follows that these perquisites consisted of exemption from revenue of a proportion of land, allowed to the Chiefs in return for the services they rendered; Ghiyasuddin considered that they should be satisfied with this allowance, so its amount must have been substantial, but there is no record of the extent of land allowed. The same passage shows that the Chiefs were suspected of levying revenue for themselves from the peasants: this is probably the implication of clause 4, that the peasants were in fact paying revenue which ought to fall on the Chiefs or headmen. [I. GHIYASUDDIN’S AGRARIAN Policy. (Text, Barni, 429, checked by Or. 2039. Translation, J.A.S.B., vol. x1. p. 229. The translation in Elliot, iii. 230, is very in- complete.) I applied to Mr. R. Paget Dewhurst for help with this ex- ceedingly crabbed passage, and he generously furnished me with the following translation. The notes marked [D] are also his: the others are mine. 1. He fixed the revenue of the territories of the kingdom equitably according to the “rule of the produce” (x), 2. and relieved the peasants of the territories and the kingdom from innovations and apportionments based on crop-failure(2); 3. and with regard to the provinces and country of the kingdom he did not listen to the tales of spies and the speeches of enhancement-mongers(3) and the bids (literally, acceptances) of revenue-farmers. 4. He also ordered that spies and enhancement-mongers and revenue-farmers and land-wreckers should not be allowed to hang (literally, wander) round the office of the Ministry, 5. and he instructed the office of the Ministry not to make an increase of more than one-tenth or one-eleventh on the provinces and country on surmise and guess-work or on the reports of spies and the representations of enhancement-mongers, 6. and that efforts should be made that cultivation should increase every year and the revenue be enhanced very gradually, 7. and not in such a way that the country should be ruined all at once by heavy pressure and the path of increase closed. 8. Sultan Tughlaq Shah frequently remarked that the revenue should be taken from the country in such a way that the peasants of the country should extend cultivation, 9. and the established cultivation become settled, and every vear a small increase should take place.

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