The agrarian system of Moslem India

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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

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Identifikator:: 1892065975

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

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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

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Title:: Fünfzehntes Buch. Erstes Kapitel. Religiöse Bewegung ; Luther

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174 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA manager from outside the village. The writer of the report assumed that in these cases the original Brotherhoods had been ousted at some distant date by the Chief, but this is speculation, unsupported by evidence, and the hypothetical date may, for all we know, lie far beyond the Moslem conquest. The most significant feature of the Chief's tenure is that at his death his rights were not as a rule dis- tributed according to the Hindu law of inheritance. A new Chief succeeded, chosen according to whatever custom prevailed in the family, and he usually provided for the necessities of his collateral relatives, but the cadets of the family had to “look to their own exertions for sub- sistence.”’ This succession of an individual to the undivided rights appears also in the traditional histories of some of the Chiefs in Oudh,! and it is a fact with which we must reckon. It points to a recognised distinction between property,” which under the developed Sacred Law is ordinarily divided at death, and ‘Chiefs’ Right,” which is not divided, and must be regarded rather as a survival of sovereignty. The fact that a Chief had acknowledged the supremacy of a Moslem dynasty at Delhi or elsewhere made no difference to his position within his own domain, so long as he was allowed to retain possession of it; when his rights were terminated, it was by superior force. This interpretation of the facts is, even now, in accordance with the popular attitude in Chiefs’ country; the Chief's domain is still the Raj or kingdom, and within it his will may be very nearly law: and while the tradition has gradually weakened, and is bound to weaken further, I think its existence must be accepted by the historian as definite evidence of a claim to sovereignty, a claim which probably rests on the facts of a more or less distant epoch, though records of the facts may not have survived. This conclusion must not, however. be extended to the 1 See, for instance, History of the Sombansi Raj, by Bishambar Nath Tholal (Cawnpore, 1900). This interesting little book traces the tradi- tional history of the Chiefs of Partabgarh back to the thirteenth century, when Lukhan Sen carved out a domain for himself, and recounts the succession of Chiefs for twenty generations. See also, Benett’s Chief Clans of the Roy. Bareilly District (revised edition, Lucknow. 1895); and Elliott's Chronicles of Oonao (Allahabad. 1862)

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