Völkerrecht und Landesrecht

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Identifikator:: 189206295X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239471

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Triepel, Heinrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/117417920

Title:: Völkerrecht und Landesrecht

Place of publication:: Tübingen

Publisher:: Mohr Siebeck

Year of publication:: 1907

Scope:: XII, 452 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Zweites Kapitel. Das Verhältniss der Rechtssätze

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102 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA Imperial Service. The passage in the Tabaqit-i Akbari on which Badaiini’s account is based runs as follows: “Since much of the land of Hindustan was uncultivated and fallow, and was capable of being cultivated in the first year, to the advantage and profit alike of the peasants and the Revenue Minister, the Emperor (compliments) after careful consideration ordered that the area of the parganas of the Empire should be examined, and that the extent of land which, after cultivation, would yield one kror of tankas should be separated off, and entrusted to an official (compliments). That official was to be designated Krori, and sent to the pargana with a clerk and a treasurer, so that by his efforts and exertions the uncultivated land should be brought under cultivation, and the correct Demand realised ’’1 We have thus two unofficial chronicles in conflict with the official version. Now the motive alleged by Nizamuddin Ahmad and Badaiini is in itself creditable, and, what is more to the point, would have been regarded as highly creditable in official circles in Akbar’s reign; why then should it be ignored in an official, and ordinarily eulogistic, record, which, in place of it, reveals discreditable facts, for inability to secure the maintenance of an honest Valuation is certainly not creditable to the administration concerned? It seems to me that in such a case we are bound to accept the official, and less creditable, version, in the sense that the direct cause of the change was, in fact, Akbar’s determination to put the remuneration of the Imperial Service on a more satisfactory basis; but to take this view is not to charge the unofficial writers with deliberately inventing a more creditable motive. What I suggest is that, while Akbar had his own motive, the Revenue Ministry, possibly with his concurrence, introduced another. It is easy to realise what the change must have meant from the departmental standpoint. The Ministry had hitherto been in a position to give effect to the traditional policy of agricultural development only in the relatively ! My rendering of this passage is based on Or. 2274, f. 203, checked by Add. 6543, f. 238, and RAS 46 (Morley), f. 262. Add. 6543 is defective in the opening sentence, the copyist having passed from the first to the second appearance of the word “cultivated.” RAS 46 has many verbal blunders, but agrees generally. The version given in Elliot, v. 383, is substantially different; the MSS. on which it is based are not specified, and conseauently I have been unable to examine the differences in detail

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