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Mughal Administration

1921

But in the case of the other sources of State income the Quranic law and the practice of older Islamic States outside India exercised their full influence and we find in Indo-Muhammadan history repeated attempts to adjust the actual practice of the Government in the revenue department to the theory of the Canon Law of Islam in this matter.* Thus the entire revenue sytem of the Mughal empire [...] Where the Government is absolute the supreme authority concentrated in one man's hand the territory large the means of communication between the districts slow and difficult the transfer of local officers frequent and no political life or local initiative left to the people —there the natural consequence is the multiplcation of official correspondende and the growth of a vast mass of writt [...] According to the theory of the Quranic law the sovereign is only the commander of the true believers (amir-ul-mumnin) and is responsible to the general body (jamait) of the Muslims for the proper discharge of his duties. [...] The punishment of the heretical opinions blasphemy against the Prophet and neglect of the five daily prayers and the fast of Ramzän by Muhamadans also lay within the province of the Censor. [...] He signed the papers of distribtion of jägir (taqsim.) His seal was impressed on the rooms of the Public Treasury and the bags of money [in them] on the abstracts of the reports (waqia) on the acknowledments (qabz) of the monthly salary of the ahadis *The procedure will become clear from the full description of it given in the Ain (i.
history
Pages
265
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142981
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii Jadunath Sarkar view
Chapter I. The Government : its Character and Aim
1-13 unknown view
Chapter II. The Sovereign and the Departmental Heads
14-26 unknown view
Chapter III. The Treasury and Household Departments
27-46 unknown view
Chapter IV. Provincial Administration
47-64 unknown view
Chapter V. Taxation
65-90 unknown view
Chapter VI. Law and Justice
91-118 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Prerogatives of the Emperor
119-131 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Sovereign as the Head of Religion
132-145 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Position of the Aristocracy
146-160 unknown view
Chapter X. State Industries
161-175 unknown view
Chapter XI. Revenue Rules of Aurangzib
176-198 unknown view
Chapter XII. Army and Navy
199-208 unknown view
Chapter XIII. City Administration
209-215 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Official Letters and Seals
216-227 unknown view
Chapter XV. Mughal Rule : its achievements and failure
228-245 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Sources of Information
246-254 unknown view
Index
255-256 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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