Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 183193440X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232093

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 3

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 181 - 253

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Charles S. Weller, chairman, South Dakota Agricultrual Equality Commitee, Mitchell, S. Dak.

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THE 13tH AND 1l4tH CENTURIES 39 Governor of Dipalpur selected as a bride for his brother the daughter of a Hindu Chief living within his jurisdiction. The Chief rejected the proposal in terms which were re- garded as insulting, and the Governor thereupon led his troops to the spot, and proceeded to collect the year’s revenue by force directly from the headmen, who would ordinarily have paid it to the Chief. The suffering caused by these measures induced the lady to sacrifice herself for her tribe, the marriage duly took place, and King Firiiz was its offspring. The point of the story lies in the chroni- cler’'s remark that the people were helpless, for “in those days Alauddin was on the throne,” and no protest was possible; and it may fairly be inferred that a strong Governor, serving under a strong King, could treat the Chiefs very much as he chose. Alauddin was, as a rule, opposed to the alienation of revenue by way of Grant or Assignment. As we have seen, he resumed all existing Grants early in his reign, and he appears to have made few if any, in later years. His Court, indeed, was brilliant, but rewards to scholars and artists were on a moderate scale, and apparently they were usually given in cash! As to Assignments, he probably disliked the whole system, for the later chronicler, Shams Afif, records (p. 95) that he condemned assignments of villages on the ground that they constituted a political danger, the assignees forming local ties, which might easily develop into an opposition party. He certainly did not give small Assign- ments to individual troopers, his large army at the capital being paid entirely in cash; and there is, so far as I can find, no record of his giving large Assignments to officers. It is quite possible that some Assignments were given or con- tinued, because the silence of the chronicles is not conclusive on such questions, but it is clear that the practice had, for the time being, fallen out of favour. Of Farming, I have found no trace during this reign. Here, too, it is possible that our information is incomplete ; but, speaking generally, { Barni, 341, 365-6. He contrasts Aliuddin’s conduct ‘with that of Mahmid of Ghazni. The latter, he says, would have given a country or a province to a poet like Amir Khusri, while the former merely offered him a salarv of 1000 tankas

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