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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Title:: Chapter III. The Sayyid and Afghan dynasties

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72 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM ‘INDIA At this stage then, Farid Khan does not come before us as an agrarian reformer. He worked the system which he found in existence, and made the best of it by close personal supervision; accepting in substance, as we may, the chronicler’s assurance of his success, we may fairly infer that it was due to the man rather than the methods. For about twenty years after his dismissal, the man was engaged in tasks of a different nature, and when we next meet him, it is in the person of Sher Shah, King of Hindustan, reorganising the administration in the light of his past experience. Before, however, we turn to his constructive work, a few words must be said on certain points affecting the Lodi period. [ have found nothing to show what share of the produce was claimed as revenue at this time. It is prima facie improbable that the Afghan kings and their assignees should have been content with less than could be realised, but their claims probably varied with varying power of enforcement ; diversity may therefore be conjectured, but in the absence of any authority the question must remain open. For a time, the revenue continued to be collected in cash, but, as we have seen above, early in the sixteenth century grain-collection was made the rule. A few details are available regarding the conditions of tenure of Assignments. For one thing, it is clear that the allocation of these had raised difficulties in regard to any small Grants or endow- ments which might be included in them: Sikandar Lodi issued general orders under which the assignee was bound to respect existing tenures of the kind! The same passage mentions that the assignees’ accounts were settled at the Revenue Ministry without formalities or difficulties; while we are told also (iv. 453) that under Sikandar the assignee was allowed to keep any excess over the nominal Valuation which he could secure from his Assignment. In this latter respect, the procedure was much more favourable to the assignee than that which prevailed in the Mogul Empire, when excess realisations were claimed by the State, as we shall see in a later chapter. Apart from Assignments, ! Elliot, iv. 447, 8. The terms used for the small tenures are milk and wazifa. At other periods wazifa commonly meant a stipend paid in cash.

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