Die Aufgaben der Volkswirtschaftslehre als Wissenschaft

The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 884842509

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-10952

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Weber, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/118629646

Title:: Die Aufgaben der Volkswirtschaftslehre als Wissenschaft

Place of publication:: Tübingen

Publisher:: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck)

Year of publication:: 1909

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (77 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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192 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA At this time then, Calcutta meant by zamindari what Delhi meant by taluqdari; and, in the precise official lan- guage of the North, the East India Company became by purchase the taluqdar of the three Towns. The merchants, however, continued to employ the local term, and proceeded to extend its use; the Member of Council who was placed in charge of the three Towns was designated Zamindar, and, in accordance with the practice of the period, the term “black zamindar” was applied to his Indian assistant. Here, I think, we find the germ of the idea which appears from time to time in the English records, that the word zamindar denoted a collector of rent, remunerated by salary or commission, as the case might be and that meaning is a very long way from the established northern use of a hereditary Chief with claims artecedent to Moslem rule. Thus the nature of the Company’s tenure cannot be inferred from the designations applied to it, which are general, and not specific. The Records show its Collector as granting leases (pata), subject to a maximum rate, which had apparently been fixed by superior authority, collecting rents, and managing the villages in general; and as paying an annual sum of about Rs. 1290 to the local revenue-collectors, who demanded it in the usual three instalments! sometimes for the King, and at others for the assignee in possession. So much is clear, that the Company was not liable to a changing annual assessment, but paid a stated sum, which the merchants regarded as invariable. I suspect that what they acquired was really an old farm (¢jdra) in the nature of a clearing-lease; and this may be the implication of the Company’s promise? that ‘ particular care shall be taken to 1 The farmian puts the annual payment at Rs. 1195-6; but the Company stated the “rent” as Rs. 1281-6—9 (Early Annals, 11, i. 17), and the recorded payments for the years after 1717 total about Rs. 1290, the exact amounts varying by small sums according to the denomination of the rupees in which payment was made. I conjecture that the extra amount may have denoted some cesses added to the original sum, and this may be the meaning of the phrase ‘something more’ in the Com- pany’s petition (II, ii. 60), “‘the rent . . . according to the King’s books, amounts to 1194.14, and something more: which is vearly paid into the Treasury.” ) 2 Early Annals, 11, ii. 60. There is a discrepancy in the translations of the documents of 1717. The farmdn, or general sanction, from the Emperor was accompanied by a batch of particular orders dealing with rach point separately. the 28th of which related to the grant of land.

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