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Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft (Bd. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1896404200

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Title:: Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1904-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896404294

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236881

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Title:: Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft

Volume count:: Bd. 2

Place of publication:: Leipzig [u.a.]

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: 1184 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Öffentliches Recht

Collection:: Economics Books

150 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA Jandholders, which was to be recognised by British law as homogeneous; the earlier stages in these developments form the subject of the next section 5. INTERMEDIARIES UNDER AURANGZEB AND HIS SUCCESSORS We have seen in a previous section that, in the middle of the seventeenth century, the great bulk of the revenue was assigned, as much as 19 krors out of the total of 22; and consequently the assignees were at that period much the most important class of Intermediaries between the Emperor and the peasants. During the next half century, a gradual change occurred, and shortly after the end of Aurangzeb’s reign, Assignments, taken as a whole, had become unremunerative, and were naturally unpopular; they continued to be made, but energetic men preferred a title resting on force to one which was based on paper, and in the course of the eighteenth century the Taluq, or “Dependency,” came to take the place of the Assignment as the most prominent agrarian institution. The unpopularity of Assignments is a familiar. topic in the chronicle written by Khwafi Khan shortly after Aurang- zeb’s death. The most noteworthy passage is a digression! where, after describing the liberality of Shahjahan in equipping his officers for active service, the chronicler proceeds to stress the contrast between past and: present. Nowadays, he says in effect, perhaps one or two in a hundred of the wretched assignees may get a morsel of bread from their Assignments, but the rest are starving mendicants; while those who are nominally on the cash-roll may possibly receive their pay for a year or two at most. The passage is rhetorical, and the writer was obviously a pessimist, so that his language must be somewhat heavily discounted; but there is no reason to suppose that it does not represent in substance the opinion current in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Perhaps its most significant feature 1 Khwafi, i. 622. The approximate date of this chronicle is fixed by such passages as ii. 378. where the vear of writing is given as 1135 H, or 1722-13.

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