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(5) ‘Chiefs’ perquisites’; hugiig-i khutan. It can be inferred from 
the passage which follows that these perquisites consisted of exemption 
from revenue of a proportion of land, allowed to the Chiefs in return for 
the services they rendered; Ghiyasuddin considered that they should be 
satisfied with this allowance, so its amount must have been substantial, 
but there is no record of the extent of land allowed. The same passage 
shows that the Chiefs were suspected of levying revenue for themselves 
from the peasants: this is probably the implication of clause 4, that the 
peasants were in fact paying revenue which ought to fall on the Chiefs or 
headmen. 
[I. GHIYASUDDIN’S AGRARIAN Policy. 
(Text, Barni, 429, checked by Or. 2039. Translation, J.A.S.B., 
vol. x1. p. 229. The translation in Elliot, iii. 230, is very in- 
complete.) 
I applied to Mr. R. Paget Dewhurst for help with this ex- 
ceedingly crabbed passage, and he generously furnished me 
with the following translation. The notes marked [D] are 
also his: the others are mine. 
1. He fixed the revenue of the territories of the kingdom 
equitably according to the “rule of the produce” (x), 
2. and relieved the peasants of the territories and the kingdom 
from innovations and apportionments based on crop-failure(2); 
3. and with regard to the provinces and country of the 
kingdom he did not listen to the tales of spies and the speeches 
of enhancement-mongers(3) and the bids (literally, acceptances) 
of revenue-farmers. 
4. He also ordered that spies and enhancement-mongers 
and revenue-farmers and land-wreckers should not be allowed 
to hang (literally, wander) round the office of the Ministry, 
5. and he instructed the office of the Ministry not to make 
an increase of more than one-tenth or one-eleventh on the 
provinces and country on surmise and guess-work or on the 
reports of spies and the representations of enhancement-mongers, 
6. and that efforts should be made that cultivation should 
increase every year and the revenue be enhanced very gradually, 
7. and not in such a way that the country should be ruined 
all at once by heavy pressure and the path of increase closed. 
8. Sultan Tughlaq Shah frequently remarked that the 
revenue should be taken from the country in such a way that 
the peasants of the country should extend cultivation, 
9. and the established cultivation become settled, and 
every vear a small increase should take place.