The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1804119261

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-188010

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

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58 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA inferred that assignees of all classes enjoyed at least their fair share of the prosperity of the kingdom; and we may perhaps go further, and say that they were under less temptation than usual to exploit the peasants who had come under their control. The nobles at any rate became rich (P- 297), and accumulated large stores, while we now begin to hear of great fortunes being left at death, a topic which becomes familiar in the Mogul period. Firliz was liberal in the matter of Grants. At his ac- cession, he restored! to the claimants large numbers of Grants which had been resumed by his predecessors, and in the early years of his reign he made fresh Grants “every day” to the host of candidates present in the capital. The chronicler speaks of the restoration of Grants which dated trom 170 years back; this carries us beyond the establish- ment of the Delhi kingdom, and the passage is so fervid that not much stress can be placed on its wording, but it is allowable to infer that Firtiz recognised his predecessors’ Grants as establishing a claim which ought to be satisfied. This inference is confirmed by a passage in the King’s Memoir, where he records that he directed claimants to Grants which had been resumed to produce their evidence, and promised that they should receive the land, or anything else, to which they were entitled. In this reign, therefore, we come within measurable distance of the idea of a pro- prietary right in Grants; but the idea was not destined to develop, and in the Mogul period the practice of arbitrary resumption was well established. Under Firiiz we hear very little of the Hindu Chiefs, the other important class of Intermediaries. The general averments of continued tranquillity, taken with the absence of records of punitive expeditions, suggest that their relations with the Administration were normally friendly, but I have found no details throwing light on their position, except in regard to two Chiefs belonging to the province of Awadh. When the King was marching through this province on an expedition to Bengal, the Chiefs (Rai) of Gorakhpur and Kharosa, who had formerly paid their revenue in Awadh, but for some years had been in “rebellion,” and had withheld ! Barni, 558; Futuhat, as in Elliot, iii. 386. and Or. 2039, f. 3047.

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