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INDEX 
Provinces of—contiuned 
Chauth in, 152, 271 
Differential Sharing in, 185,186 
Famine in, 183, 215 
Farming in, 181 
Headmen in, 182, 184, 185 
Measurement in, 185-6 
Mogul administration of, 183ff. 
Region defined, 180-1 
Defaulters, treatment of, 101, 142, 
188 
Deh =Village (q.v.), 18, 271 
Delhi, Country of, described, 23, 
desolated, 48 
Delhi, Moslem Kingdom of, 15, 
17, 19, 21ff., 34, 62 
Administrative organisation of, 
21ff. 
Collapse of, 62, 153 
Moslem Governors, 21 
Delhi, Province under 
Akbar, 82, 118 
Assessment of, reduced, go 
Direct administration of, g6 
Regulation System in, 118 
Statistics of, 259, 260 
Demand = Revenue, 16-17 passim 
Distribution of, 137 &n., 277 
Indo-Persian terms for, 2o09ff., 
232-3, 240, 241 
Term explained, 33#: 
Terminology discussed, 232-3, 
240ff. 
Under Moslem rulers 
Akbar, 83, 86-7, 260, 262 
Alauddin, 33, 62 
Aurangzeb, 135ff. 
Farid Khan, 69, 70 
Firiz, 54, 56 
Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, 40, 43 
Lodi dynasty, 73, 76 
Shih Shuja, in Bengal, 195, 
197 
During Last Phase, 1681. 
Deogir=Daulatibad, Province, 25 
Capital of Muhammad Tughlaq, 
48 
Dependency, history of the term, 
153—4 
Bengal, 191 
17th and 18th Centuries, 1501., 
17211. 
population, (see also Absconding), 
49, 145, 146-7, 207-8 
Dharma, 2ff., 16, 17, 271 
on property, 174 
on Share of Produce claimable by 
King, 204 
Differential Sharing, 16, 17, 255-6 
in the Deccan. 185. 186 
Dipalpur, Province, 24 
Direct administration, under Akbar, 
96, 100ff., 247 
Division, sharing by, 7 
Diwan, Diwani, history of the 
terms, xiv-xv, meanings 
of, at different periods, 78, 
271 
Provincial, 109, 133ff., 148, 197 
Aurangzeb’s Orders and, 1321. 
Doib, the, 34, 271 
Misuse of name, 23 
Peasants’ payments in, British 
period, 169-70 
Dorn, A., quoted, 67x. 
Dowson, Prof., quoted, 45 
Duncan, Jonathan, Records of, 281, 
quoted, 1577n., 160ff. 
Dyarchy, Administrative, Mogul 
period, 109, 272 
Reign of Aurangzeb, 133 
East INDIA Co., in Bengal, 18¢ff. 
Ejectment or dispossession of De- 
faulters, 9, 142 
Elliots’ History, 281, quoted, 
passim 
Epidemics, 145-6 
Estimation, Sharing by, 7 
FAMINE, Barni’s use of the term, 
36m. 
13th and 14th Centuries, 36%., 
50 
17th Century, 145, 183 
Farid Khan, see also Sher Shah 
Agrarian policy of, 69ff. 
Assessment under, 7off.,, go-1 
Assignments under, 69ff. 
Chiefs under, 69, 71 
Share of produce claimed by, 70 
Sharing under, 69 
Treatment by, of rebels, 70 
Farmans of Aurangzeb, described, 
132 
Terminology of, r33 
Farming 
British period, 172-3 
Hindu period, 3, 10ff., 16: 
Moslem period, 10, 15, 203 
Summary, 2035 
Reigns of 
Alauddin Khalji, 39, 40, 181 
Aurangzeb, and his suc- 
cessors, 148, 154-5, 158 
Firiz, 61 
Ghiyasuddin, 42 
Tahangir, 128