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 245 This could easily be done by applying the rates shown in the new schedules to actual, or estimated, crop-areas. Actual areas would be on record for the Reserved lands, but in the case of Assignments it might be necessary to estimate, if the records of area were not considered satisfactory, or were not available. (3) On the basis of these calculations a new Valuation was made: not, as we are told, identical with the calculated Demand, Sut near it, and thus a great improvement on the old Valuation, which had lost all touch with facts. The reform then was twofold, providing new schedules of assessment-rates, and also a new Valuation, the two things which were wanted. The Ain mentions both: the Akbarnama is dealing only with Valuation, and says nothing about assessment- rates, which the author had not in view. The schedules are not described, or incorporated, in the Ain, but it is possible to infer their nature. We know from another chapter in the Ain (i. 297) that the basic rule—one-third of the average produce—which gave the original Demand-rates, was still in force in the fortieth regnal year, and we are justified in inferring that the fagsims conformed to it. We know further that the fagsims, like the original schedule, showed the Demand in terms of produce, because seasonal commutation was still required, as the next paragraph of the text will show. The fact that the work was done by the ganiingos, the repositories of local agrarian knowledge, makes it certain that the schedules were local. A separate schedule was prepared for each pargana, and deposited, as such, in the record-office: this can mean only that assessment was now based on local productivity, not on the average productivity of the empire. Analysis of the rates actually charged, as given in Ain Nizdahsila, shows clearly that there was in fact a general change in assessment in the 15th year; new crops then come into the schedules, the provinces diverge more widely, and, inside each province, the gap between maximum and minimum rates widens—as would necessarily follow when local schedules replaced a general one, because there would then be, inside the province, two variables instead of one, rates and prices, instead of prices only. These considerations. taken together, appear to me to settle the nature of the fagsimat-i mulk. That they were not in- corporated in the Ain can be accounted for by their bulk. The original schedule, which is given as a historical document, fills

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