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$33.37The Story
The author, a British civil servant after retirement decided to examine old land and revenue records, resulting in this work, which was published in 1929. Starting in the thirteenth century, the book gives a historical context to the changing land use and revenue practices in India. Moreland also examines the role of religious laws and the influence of successive regimes and rulers on the development of agrarian practices as well as on the lives and work of India’s peasantry.
There are nine very useful appendices. They are:
(1) Indo-Persian Terms for Land-Revenue (2) Provincial Governors in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (3) Some Fourteenth-Century Passages (4) Assessment by Nasaq (5) Ain-i Dahsala (6) Legends of Todar Mal (7) The Agrarian Statistics in the Ain (8) Glossary (9) List of Authorities
There are nine very useful appendices. They are:
(1) Indo-Persian Terms for Land-Revenue (2) Provincial Governors in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (3) Some Fourteenth-Century Passages (4) Assessment by Nasaq (5) Ain-i Dahsala (6) Legends of Todar Mal (7) The Agrarian Statistics in the Ain (8) Glossary (9) List of Authorities
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The author, a British civil servant after retirement decided to examine old land and revenue records, resulting in this work, which was published in 1929. Starting in the thirteenth century, the book gives a historical context to the changing land use and revenue practices in India. Moreland also examines the role of religious laws and the influence of successive regimes and rulers on the development of agrarian practices as well as on the lives and work of India’s peasantry.
There are nine very useful appendices. They are:
(1) Indo-Persian Terms for Land-Revenue (2) Provincial Governors in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (3) Some Fourteenth-Century Passages (4) Assessment by Nasaq (5) Ain-i Dahsala (6) Legends of Todar Mal (7) The Agrarian Statistics in the Ain (8) Glossary (9) List of Authorities
There are nine very useful appendices. They are:
(1) Indo-Persian Terms for Land-Revenue (2) Provincial Governors in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (3) Some Fourteenth-Century Passages (4) Assessment by Nasaq (5) Ain-i Dahsala (6) Legends of Todar Mal (7) The Agrarian Statistics in the Ain (8) Glossary (9) List of Authorities
