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 E 239 offered is meant to be quite literal, except that conventional compliments are omitted or condensed; ambiguous expressions are given in the original, and discussed in the interpretation. [A] TRANSLATION. From! (or, At) the beginning of the reign, every year experts used to ascertain the price-currents, and lay them before the throne?; and, taking the schedule of crop-yields and the prices thereof, ised to fix the schedule of cash-rates; and abundant distress used to occur. Notes.—(1) The MSS. vary, as usual, between the prepositions az and dar. '2) The words wala dargah show that the prices to be used in commutation required the Emperor's sanction, a detail of some importance, because it helps to explain why commutation ultimately broke down. INTERPRETATION. This paragraph repeats the information given in an earlier chapter (i. 297), that at first Akbar adopted a schedule of crop-rates (ray) which had been sanctioned by Sher Shih, commuting the grain-Demand based on it into cash- rates (dastiir) on the basis of current prices; it adds only that the result was very unsatisfactory [B] TRANSLATION. When Khwija Abdul Majid Asaf Khan was Vazir, the jama-i wildyat was ragamsi, and “they” used to show! whatever they pleased with the pen of enhanced salary.? Seeing that the kingdom was not extensive, and that promotion of officers used to be frequent, there used to be increase and decrease from bribe-taking and self-interest. Notes. (1) There is no subject for the verb, which must be read as the common locution, impersonal for passive; I mark this locution by inverted commas. (2) Afziidatan is not in the dictionaries. I take Zan in the regular office-sense of “salary,” the phrase indicating that a rising salary-list was the motive for whatever was done at this time. INTERPRETATION. Abdul Majid had ceased to be Vazir in the 2ighth year of the reign, when he had “turned from the pen to

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