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.

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Title:: Chapter II. The 13th and 14th centuries

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24 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA as follows. Below the River Country came Kanauj, and below that Karra, the two together completing the area now known as the Doab; but Kanauj had apparently some jurisdiction across the Ganges, while Karra extended across both rivers. Beyond the Ganges, we find Amroha and Sambhal' on the North, and next to these Badiiin. In the earlier period, the next province recorded to the East of Badatin was Awadh (Ajudhiya, or Fyzabad), but later we hear of Sandila between the two; and beyond Awadh to the South-East was Zafaribad, which became known as Jaunpur when that city was built by Firiz. To the North of the Gogra was Bahraich: then came a portion of Awadh including Gorakhpur, and then Tirhut, or North Bihar, Beyond Tirhut was Lakhnauti, or Western Bengal, which was sometimes a province, but usually a king- dom, subordinate or independent according to circum- stances. Crossing the Ganges and returning westwards, we have the province then known as Bihar, which was separate from Tirhut. The country lying to the West of this Bihir was not really within the kingdom, and the next province we meet is Mahoba, and next to it Bayana, which was united with Gwalior during the periods when that fortress belonged to the kingdom. Bayana marched with Mewat, the un- administered region South of Delhi to which reference has already been made. West of Delhi, the provinces were Sirhind, Samana and Hansi (Hissar), and beyond them Lahore, Dipalpur, and Multan. The last three were frontier provinces; almost throughout the period the Mongols were established on or near the Indus, and the danger resulting from their presence was a determining factor in the politics of the kingdom. To the Southward, Gujarat was a recognised province, and there were some provinces in Malwa, but the chronicles say curiously little about this region, and I am not certain of the number. Of Rajputana also, we hear very little: there is 1 Apparently this part of Rohilkhand was at times administered as part of the River Country: I take this to be the meaning of Afif’s occasional phrase ‘‘between-and-beyond-the-two rivers.” In one passage (p. 323), Barni seems to include Amroha in the River Country, mentioning it, along with Meerut, Baran, and Kol, as being under direct administration.

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