Cost of living in German towns

The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Monograph

Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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APPENDIX G 265 an adjustment of the existing Valuation would be a natural proceeding. The figures for Tatta, or Lower Sind, which was also a later acquisition, contain no indications of value for the present purpose; but, taking Bengal, Khandesh, and Berar together, it may fairly be said that there is no difficulty in the view that the figures which we possess represent initial Valuations made at, or shortly after, annexation, and based on the records of the previous governments. In the case of Bengal, we do not know whether the earlier figures were accepted as they stood, or were adjusted; in the other two provinces, we know that the earlier figures were increased by the first Mogul rulers. On the other hand, the Bengal figures cannot be read as a statement of the actual Demand; and there is no particular reason for taking the figures for Khandesh or Berar in this sense. The considerations which have now been stated do not amount to formal proof, but they seem to me to establish a definite probability that the statistics in the “Account” reproduce the Valuation which was in use in the Revenue Ministry at the time when it was compiled. On this view, their value for the historian is substantially greater than I had previously supposed. Taking them as representing the Demand for a single, unspecified, year, it was necessary to ask whether the year was typical of the period, or was exceptional, and that question could not be answered with entire confidence. Taking them as representing the Valua- tion, we have the data on which the Ministry relied for a very important branch of the administration. It is true that similar data had been falsified on two occasions earlier in the reign; but it is also true that on each occasion Akbar had intervened to put things right. It is reasonable to suppose that he took measures to secure that the third Valuation for the older provinces, made in the 24th year, should be honestly maintained, and the absence of any later record of a general re-Valuation suggests that this was done effectively. For the older provinces, then, we have, on this view, data which were good enough for the ad- ministration, indicating the Income which could be expected to accrue: the figures for the later acquisitions would necessarily be of less value, because based on less experience. I suggest then that the figures we possess for the older pro- vinces are most probably the Valuation based on the ten-year average of assessed area and Demand calculated in the 24th vear, but modified in detail on experience gained in the next

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