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 III. The Sayyid and Afghan dynasties

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Chapter III. The Sayyid and Afghan Dynasties. 1. FROM FIRUZ TO BABUR (1388-1526) DURING the first half of the fifteenth century Delhi was ruled for a time by the line of Firtiz, and then by a short- lived dynasty of Sayyids. The only contemporary authority I have found for this period is the Tarikh-i Mubarakshahi,! which was written about the middle of the century. judg- ing by its contents, the author was not interested in agrarian topics, and he tells us very little about them; but it may well be that there was very little to be told. The kingdom was now small, and, within its reduced limits, the royal authority was weak; the Hindu Chiefs tended to become independent, while the Moslem Governors were apt to be insubordinate. Much of the narrative relates to the King’s annual expeditions undertaken with the object of collecting the revenue, and punishing rebels or defaulters; and it is a striking fact that in these expeditions Governors and Chiefs were treated very much on the same footing. The King marches towards Gwalior; the Chiefs pay the customary revenue, or do not pay it, as the case may be. He marches towards Badiin, and the Governor either comes to meet him and settle his accounts, or else shuts himself up in the fort, and is treated as a rebel. The position for the time being resembled that which we shall meet in the eighteenth century, when all titles and jurisdictions became confounded in the Zalug or “dependency,” that is to say, the area over which an individual, whether Governor or Assignee, whether Farmer or Chief, exercised de facto authority. 1 Much of this chronicle is translated in Elliot, iv. 6 ft. I have used Elliot’s MS., which now forms part of Or. 1673. checking it by Or. 5318, which is attributed to the seventeenth—eighteenth century. The blanks in Elliot’s MS., noticed by Dowson, occur also in this earlier copy, and the two must be regarded as constituting a single authority. So far as I have seen, the only differences between them are the clerical mistakes made by Elliot's copyist: as Dowson remarks, his MS. “is in a fair handwriting, but it is full of errors.”

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