The agrarian system of Moslem India

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

249 was, we read, ‘‘the fixing of the jama-i dahsala.” We then read that local prices used to be reported regularly for use in commutation, and that, as the Empire extended, delays in the reports caused dissatisfaction, while some of the reporters were suspected of “straying from the path of rectitude.” Thus the emergency was the same: and it is added that the officials were helpless, but that Akbar himself solved the problem. In both records then, and I have found no other account, the jama-i dahsala is named as furnishing an alternative to commutation; and, since we know what the actual alternative was, we must infer that this known alternative could be described officially by this title. How the title can have come into use, is a question which must be reserved until the remaining para- eraph has been discussed. APPENDIX E [E] TRANSLATION. From the 15th to the 24th year “they” added up the mahsil-s dahsala, and took 1/10th of that as harsala; but “they” took the 2oth to 24th years as ascertained, and the five previous from the statements of upright men. And also taking into account the [figures known as] mal-s jins-t kamil, “they” took the year which was greatest, as the table shows. [NTERPRETATION. Mabhsiil obviously cannot mean “produce” in this context, and must be taken as Demand. The first two clauses are plain. An average was struck of the Demand for ten years. Actual figures for the last five were available, because, as we have seen, most of the provinces had been brought ander direct administration by orders issued in the 1gth year; for the earlier years there would not be complete figures for Demand, because most of the country was then assigned, and consequently it would be necessary to collect whatever data were available, presumably from qaningos and from managers employed by assignees. Clearly, then, the Ain speaks of averaging the Demand, and not the demand-rates, because the rates were on record (they are in Ain Nazdahsala), for the whole period, and collection of secondary data for them would not have been required. Interpretation of the third clause depends on the reading adopted. Here, Blochmann'’s text is not supported by any of the MSS. I have consulted, and is contradicted by Or. 2169,

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: The agrarian system of Moslem India

Monograph

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation