128 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA 
Indian institution, but was avowedly copied from Central 
Asian practice. I have not found records to show the extent 
to which such grants were made during the seventeenth 
century, but they seem to have been very rare. In the 
twenty years covered by the Badshihnima, the only case 
I have noted is that of a successful doctor, who, among other 
rewards, received a village by this title; and later records 
contain no suggestion that it became of practical importance 
during the rest of the century. 
Such is the meagre record of Jahangir’s personal activities 
in connection with the agrarian system. A few sidelights 
on its working during his reign can be obtained from other 
sources. We know! that, in some cases at least, Viceroys 
and other high officers were appointed on farming-terms; 
but there is nothing to suggest that such farmers were 
entitled to receive any part of the revenue from the Reserved 
areas, which were administered by the Diwan on behalf of 
the Emperor. These farms of high office must thus be dis- 
tinguished from the arrangements in force in portions of 
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. At that period 
the Governor-on-farming-terms enjoyed the entire revenue, 
of which the land contributed probably by far the largest 
share; under Jahéngir, the land-revenue was controlled by 
a separate department, and the provincial Viceroy would 
enjoy only so much of it as was yielded by his personal 
Assignment. It is possible that the Diwans may have 
farmed out some of the Reserved lands, but I know of no 
evidence on the point; there is no doubt, however, that 
assignees? sometimes farmed their Income, and consequently 
we must recognise that Farming was familiar in practice 
to the peasants at this period. 
! Roe, 210: Terpstra, App. VI. According to the Viceroy of Bihar’s 
statements, as recorded by Roe, he paid 11 lakhs yearly for the post. 
He received 3.6 lakhs as ““ pension’ (presumably indm), and made 7 lakhs 
out of the pay of his rank (ma#nsab) ; the net result would be that his actual 
income depended on what he could make out of the province by mis- 
cellaneous exactions, his authorised receipts being more than covered by 
the amount of the farm. - There is, however, obvious room for mistakes 
in figures recorded in this way, and it would be dangerous to base any 
argument on the details. 
? Pelsaert (p. 54) recorded that an assignee who was in attendance on 
the king either sent his employees to manage his Assignment. or else 
handed it over to a collector on farming terms.