THE REIGN OF AKBAR (1556-1605) 119 
the West, TATTA, or Lower Sind, was assessed by Sharing, 
the State’s claim being one-third of the produce; I have 
found nothing to show whether the Demand was made in 
produce, or was commuted in cash. 
The Mogul province of AJMER represents generally the 
modern Rajputana, excluding the eastern portion, which 
belonged to Agra. In Akbar’s time the province was 
heterogeneous, some parts being administered on the 
Regulation system, while the remainder was left in the 
hands of the Chiefs. The standard of the revenve-Demand 
was low, being described as one-seventh or one-eighth of 
the produce, “and money little,” a cryptic phrase which 
may possibly indicate that payment in kind prevailed. 
Judging by the form of the statistics, three districts, Ajmer, 
Ranthambhor, and Nagor, were administered mainly on 
the Regulation system. Of the other districts enumerated, 
Bikanir was obviously left entirely to the Chief; Sirohi was 
divided between four Chiefs; while Jodhpur and Chitor 
were held mainly by Chiefs, though some parganas in them 
were directly administered. Scheduses of assessment-rates 
are given for all districts except Bikanir and Sirohi, for 
which they “had not been prepared”; but in the cases of 
Jodhpur and Chitor they must be taken as applicable only 
to the subdivisions administered directly by the Mogul 
authorities. 
MALWA was another heterogeneous province. The Regu- 
lation system had been introduced, at least formally, but 
it certainly did not extend to the districts of Marosor 
(Mandasor) on the West, or Garha on the East, the figures 
for which can be interpreted only on the view that they 
were held by various Chiefs; while there is room for doubt 
as to the position in other portions of the province. The 
actual facts cannot be ascertained in detail! but so much is 
t Ain, i. 381. The grouping of assessment circles in Malwa is unintelli- 
gible. Reading the text as it stands, on the lines followed in other 
provinces, Ujjain and Raisin would be in one circle, but the schedule 
shows them as separate, and some words have apparently slipped out of 
the description. The most probable reading is that (1) no schedules were 
framed for Garha and Marosor; (2) one schedule applied to Chanderi and 
Raisin; (3) a second schedule to Mando; (4) a third, named Ujjain, to 
the remaining seven districts. Readers who are dependent on Jarrett’s 
translation will find the figures for Garha under the erroneous heading 
Kanauj (ii. 199).