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KuARiF (Kharif). The rains season, and the crops grown in it. 
KuipMaTI (Khidmati). A present given by an inferior to a 
superior. 
Kur (Khiit). Discussed in App. C. Used only bv Barni, to 
denote Chiefs. 
Kuwija (Khwija). Usually an honorific title. In 13c, 
designation of an officer on the staff of a province. whose 
functions are not clearly indicated. 
KroH. A measure of distance, about 1} miles. 
Kror. Ten millions (roo lakhs). 
KRrOrRi. In 16¢., the popular designation of the collector of 
Reserved revenue, known officially as ‘Amalguzar. In 
17c., used officially in this sense, and also to denote the 
collector employed by an Assignee. 
LAkH. One hundred thousand. 
MADAD-I Ma‘AsH. A Grant of land for subsistence. 
MaHAL (Mahal). Under Akbar, a revenue-subdivision, corre- 
sponding usually, but not invariably, with pargana; and 
occasionally applied also to a head of miscellaneous revenue. 
The modern form, mahal, does not appear before 18c. 
MansOL (Mahsiil). Discussed in App. A. May mean, according 
to the context, either Produce or Demand; and, in 16c. 
official documents, also the average-Produce calculated for 
assessment-purposes. 
MAL. Discussed in App. A. General sense, property or posses- 
sions. In agrarian matters usually means Demand, but 
sometimes has the wider sense of revenue-administration. 
In the Army, denoted booty taken in war. 
MALIK. In 13-14c., a rank of nobility, inferior to Amir. Later. 
an honorific title used more vaguely. 
MArik. Carries the general idea of sovereignty or dominion. 
In Islamic law, applied to an occupant of land, and used in 
one of Aurangzeb’s farmins to denote a peasant. 
Milikina, in the British period, denotes an allowance 
made to a landholder, or claimant, excluded from possession. 
MasAHAT (Masihat), Measurement, Survey. In 14c., denoted 
the process of assessment by Measurement, which in later 
times was called Jarib, or Paimaish. 
MisHA. An Indian weight, equal to 15 grains. 
MAuND. Anglicised form of Mann, a unit of weight containing 
go ser. The size of the unit varied with both time and 
locality