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INDEX

Provinces of—contiuned
Chauth in, 152, 271
Differential Sharing in, 185,186
Famine in, 183, 215
Farming in, 181
Headmen in, 182, 184, 185
Measurement in, 185-6
Mogul administration of, 183ff.
Region defined, 180-1
Defaulters, treatment of, 101, 142,
188
Deh =Village (q.v.), 18, 271
Delhi, Country of, described, 23,
desolated, 48
Delhi, Moslem Kingdom of, 15,
17, 19, 21ff., 34, 62
Administrative organisation of,
21ff.
Collapse of, 62, 153
Moslem Governors, 21
Delhi, Province under
Akbar, 82, 118
Assessment of, reduced, go
Direct administration of, g6
Regulation System in, 118
Statistics of, 259, 260
Demand = Revenue, 16-17 passim
Distribution of, 137 &n., 277
Indo-Persian terms for, 2o09ff.,
232-3, 240, 241
Term explained, 33#:
Terminology discussed, 232-3,
240ff.
Under Moslem rulers
Akbar, 83, 86-7, 260, 262
Alauddin, 33, 62
Aurangzeb, 135ff.
Farid Khan, 69, 70
Firiz, 54, 56
Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, 40, 43
Lodi dynasty, 73, 76
Shih Shuja, in Bengal, 195,
197
During Last Phase, 1681.
Deogir=Daulatibad, Province, 25
Capital of Muhammad Tughlaq,
48
Dependency, history of the term,
153—4
Bengal, 191
17th and 18th Centuries, 1501.,
17211.
population, (see also Absconding),
49, 145, 146-7, 207-8
Dharma, 2ff., 16, 17, 271
on property, 174
on Share of Produce claimable by
King, 204
Differential Sharing, 16, 17, 255-6
in the Deccan. 185. 186

Dipalpur, Province, 24
Direct administration, under Akbar,
96, 100ff., 247
Division, sharing by, 7
Diwan, Diwani, history of the
terms, xiv-xv, meanings
of, at different periods, 78,
271
Provincial, 109, 133ff., 148, 197
Aurangzeb’s Orders and, 1321.
Doib, the, 34, 271
Misuse of name, 23
Peasants’ payments in, British
period, 169-70
Dorn, A., quoted, 67x.
Dowson, Prof., quoted, 45
Duncan, Jonathan, Records of, 281,
quoted, 1577n., 160ff.
Dyarchy, Administrative, Mogul
period, 109, 272
Reign of Aurangzeb, 133

East INDIA Co., in Bengal, 18¢ff.
Ejectment or dispossession of Defaulters,
 9, 142
Elliots’ History, 281, quoted,
passim
Epidemics, 145-6
Estimation, Sharing by, 7

FAMINE, Barni’s use of the term,
36m.
13th and 14th Centuries, 36%.,
50
17th Century, 145, 183
Farid Khan, see also Sher Shah
Agrarian policy of, 69ff.
Assessment under, 7off.,, go-1
Assignments under, 69ff.
Chiefs under, 69, 71
Share of produce claimed by, 70
Sharing under, 69
Treatment by, of rebels, 70
Farmans of Aurangzeb, described,
132
Terminology of, r33
Farming
British period, 172-3
Hindu period, 3, 10ff., 16:
Moslem period, 10, 15, 203
Summary, 2035
Reigns of
Alauddin Khalji, 39, 40, 181
Aurangzeb, and his successors,
 148, 154-5, 158
Firiz, 61
Ghiyasuddin, 42
Tahangir, 128