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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228 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA 10. He used to say that you ought not to take all at once so much that neither the established cultivation should be main- tained nor any extension be made in the future. 1x. When kingdoms are obviously ruined (literally, are ruined and show themselves ruined) it is due to the oppressiveness of the revenue and the excessive royal demand, I2.. and ruin proceeds from destructive Muqtis and officials. 13. Also with regard to the exaction of revenue from the peasants Sultan Tughlaq Shah used to give instructions to all the Muqtis and governors of the territories of the kingdom, 14. that the Hindu should be kept in such a condition that he should not become blinded and rebellious and refractory from excessive affluence, 15. and that he should not be compelled by poverty and destitution to abandon cultivation and tillage. 16. The observing of the standards and principles mentioned in collecting the revenue can be carried out by typically eminent statesmen and experts, 17. and the essence of the art of statesmanship in regard to Hindus(4) is the fulfilment of the aforesaid instruction. 18. Further in regard to the collection of revenue it is related of Sultan Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq Shah, who was a very experienced, far-sighted, and prudent sovereign, 19. that he urged on the Mugqtis and governors investigation and consistency in the collection of revenue, 20. so that Chiefs and headmen should not impose a separate assessment on the peasants apart from the king's revenue; 2X. and if their own cultivation and pasturage be not brought under assessment, perhaps their perquisites as Chiefs and headmen, on the supposition that they pay nothing on this, may suffice them and they may make no additional demand. 22. It cannot be denied that abundant responsibilities rest on the neck of Chiefs and headmen, so that if they too con- tribute a share in the same way as the peasants, the advantage of being Chief or headman would disappear. 23. And as for those among the amirs and maliks (5)whom Sultin Ghiyasuddin advanced, and to whom he gave iqtas and provinces, 24. he used not to hold it permissible that they snould be brought before the Ministry just like (ordinary) officials(6)

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