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denotes the aggregate revenue-Demand; used for jama-i wilayat (or 
parganat), it means the Valuation on the basis of which assignments were 
allocated. In this passage it cannot bear the former sense, because the 
determination of the aggregate is stated as a separate process from the 
settlement of the revenue-Demand, while a Demand varying with the 
season is obviously incompatible with a Demand remaining unchanged 
for forty years. In the text we have jama-i mamlakat, which may fairly 
be read as a variant of the later phrase jama-i wildyat, and Valuation makes 
perfectly good sense. We have seen in Ch. II that a Valuation existed 
in the previous reign, and it is in fact a necessary feature of any system 
of Assignments; we have seen also that the existing Valuation had diverged 
widely from the facts. I read this passage as telling us that the Khwija 
brought the assessment-system into order, and, on the basis of six years’ 
experience, framed a new Valuation, which remained in use throughout 
the reign.