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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.