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 253 language; mal is the widest of the revenue terms, and, while it often means Demand in the strict sense, there is no difficulty in reading it as the average calculated from the actual figures of Demand. I have found no parallel for kali dahsala, but hal is a very wide word, and we can render “a ten-year state” without straining it. The figures for Demand would include the effect of variations of cultivation and prices, because they had been assessed on the actual cultivation in each season, at rates which varied with prices; and the passage can thus be read as an elegant, but inadequate, summary of what the Ain records, while it cannot be read as complementary, supplying something which the Ain omits. There is nothing then in the Akbarnima to clear up the apparent illogicalities in the Ain. The last of them would disappear if we assume that, following the words, “the table shows,” the draft contained a statement of the third Valuation, and then an explanation of the Demand schedules; that the former was struck out as unnecessary, because the Account of the XII Provinces was to contain the Valuation brought up- to date; and that the latter disappeared accidentally in the process of revision, so that the Demand schedules were made to follow directly on the account of the Valuation. This is possible, for there are other signs of hasty editing, but there is no evidence on the point. As to the main illogicality, two explanations can be suggested. In the first place it is possible that this portion of the chapter may have been substantially altered, a first and full draft having been greatly curtailed by the editor. As has been related in Chapter IV, various passages in the Akbarnima show that, about this time, there was friction in the Ministry between Shah Mansiir, who was there all the time, and Todar Mal, who returned from time to time in the intervals of military duty. It is quite conceivable that the draft may have contained a good deal about these old squabbles, which was struck out by the editor as unnecessary or inconvenient. Shih Mansiir was in fact an inconvenient topic,! for there were doubts whether his execution for treason was justified; Abul Fazl deals with him cautiously in the Akbarnima; and it is noteworthy that his name does not appear in paragraphs D and E, though he was solely responsible for carrying out the operations they ! See V. Smith, Akbar the Great Mogul, 194 fi.

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