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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Preface. THE object and scope of this essay are described sufficiently in the Introduction, and here it is only necessary to mention a few points of detail which may be of assistance to the reader. I have tried to write in English, and to get away from the polyglot, and often ambiguous, jargon in which agrarian topics are commonly treated in India. In order to do this, I have had to frame a precise terminology, choosing those names which carry the fewest misleading connotations. The terms which I have selected for use are printed through- out with an initial capital letter, as a tacit reminder to the reader that they bear the definite sense which has been explained at their first mention. It has not, however, been possible to avoid altogether the introduction of Persian words and phrases, because the meaning of these frequently requires discussion, and the subject of the discussion must be indicated. In trans- literation I have used as a basis the system recommended by the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society, in which the vowels have the continental values, and the consonants are, where necessary, distinguished by lines or dots placed under them. Unfortunately, these lines and dots, which are indispensable to the linguistic scholar, are offensive to ordinary readers, and greatly increase the difficulty of accurate printing. Since I am writing mainly for students who are not interested in linguistic details, I have adopted the following compromise. (1) In the text, the transliteration is simplified. The vowels have the continental values, and the long vowels are marked as such: but the consonants are not distinguished, except that the otherwise unemployed g¢ is used to represent a particular Arabic guttural. An inverted comma denotes the Arabic letter ‘ain, in cases where its indication has seemed to be desirable.

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