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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246 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA nearly three pages of Blochmann’s text: from Multan to Alla- habad, the country to which this chapter applies, there were more than a thousand parganas, so that some 3000 pages would have been needed to give tagsims prepared on the same lines for each pargana. There remains an apparent discrepancy in date. The Ain speaks of the 15th year, while the Akbarndma and Igbalnima have the parallel passages under the 11th year. Mr. Beveridge, in a note to his translation of the Akbarnama, suggested that there had been confusion somewhere between the two words, which are nearly identical in Persian script; the only real difference is between p and y, and this is a matter of three dots instead of two. The suggestion, however, raises difficulties. So far as the Akbarnama is concerned, there is no question of a copyist’s error: it is a strictly chronological work, and we should have to suppose that Abul Fazl, whose chronology is ordinarily precise, put this event four years too early, a mistake which is conceivable but distinctly improbable. It would be easy to alter 15th to Irth in the text of the Ain, but in my opinion it would not be justifiable. Of the 1z MSS. which I have myself examined, 10 have the initial p clearly marked, and the remaining two are nearer p than y: copyists must have been quite familiar with this pitfall, and the obvious efforts to make the p clear cannot be disregarded.l Again, the table of rates, which indicates a general change in assessment in the 15th year, indicates equally an absence of change between the 10th and the 12th. Again, the Akbarnama tells us (ii. 333) that in the 13th year, the assessment of the Reserved lands by Measurement was given up, and Group-assessment substituted: it is highly improbable that revised rates sanctioned in the 11th year should be discarded in the 13th. but it is quite likely that rates which had absolutely broken down should be discarded, and a temporary arrangement made. while waiting for the new rates to be sanc- tioned. My reading is that Akbar took up the question in the 11th year, as the Akbarniama, followed by the Igbalndma, states, and ordered a new Valuation to be prepared; that it took three years to make the necessary enquiries and calculations; and that, as the Ain states, the new Valuation came into force in the 1 Sir Richard Burn informs me that, of the Bodleian MSS., 15th is quite clear in 214, but 215 has 11th.

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