Deutsche Geschichte: Deutsche Geschichte

Deutsche Geschichte (Bd. 5, Hälfte 1)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1892063557

Document type:: Multivolume work

Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1892065975

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236173

Document type:: Volume

Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Volume count:: Bd. 5, Hälfte 1

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1894

Scope:: XIII, 358 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Zweites Kapitel. Wirtschaftliche und soziale Wandlungen vom 14. zum 16. Jahrhundert

Collection:: Economics Books

84 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA From the 6th to the gth year, a single set of commutation- rates was adopted for all five provinces, with only a few local variations. In the 6th and 7th years, for instance, wheat was everywhere charged go dams; and, since we must allow for local variations in season and in productivity as large as at the present day, and for very much narrower markets owing to the higher cost of moving bulky produce, it is impossible to believe that uniform prices can actually have prevailed, alike in town and in country, all the way from Lahore to Allahabad. The only reasonable inference is that the uniform grain-Demand fixed by the schedule in force was commuted by a single price-list, probably based on the rates prevailing.in the Imperial Camp. This inference is supported by the fact that in these years the pulses were very heavily over-assessed relatively to cereals. As has been explained in the last chapter, un- certainty regarding the units employed prevents us from drawing conclusions regarding actual productivity fromthe data contained in Sher Shah’s schedule; but relative, as distinct from actual, productivity can be stated with some approach to precision. Taking the relative productivity from this schedule, and the relative normal prices! from another section of the Ain, we find that, if the assessable value of wheat, stated in moneys, is put as 100, the correspond- ing figures for jowar (sorghum) ought to be 66, and for gram, 53. In the 6th year, the assessment on jowar works out to 55, so that, relatively to wheat, it was slightly under- charged; but the figure for gram was 89 instead of 53, and another pulse (moth) was overcharged on the same scale. The obvious explanation of this anomalv is that pulses 1 The prices considered to be reasonable in Akbar’s reign are given in Ain, i. 60 ff. In J.R.A.S., 1918, p. 375 fi., I showed that the relation between these prices was very much the same as existed in the years 1910-12, and a similar relation holds in all the other figures I have tested. Prices of wheat and gram, for instance, have varied enormously in the course of six centuries, but the value of a pound of wheat in terms of a pound of gram has been one of the most stable relations in history. It may be well to add that this relation is obscured in some modern works, where the wrong figure has been taken for gram. Two kinds of gram are referred to occasionally in the chronicles, * Kabuli,”” which was an exotic, and cost more than wheat, and ‘* black,” the common kind, which cost less. Edward Thomas, in The Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi, p. 429, showed the price of gram (nukhid) under Akbar as 164 dams; this represents the price of the exotic. country gram being priced at 8 dams.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Deutsche Geschichte (Bd. 5, Hälfte 1)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation