The Institutes of Akbar 191.9

191.9

“His Shírází servant amdi officiated for him during his absence, and looked after these lacklands of Aimahdárs, who had a few spots here and there; for the dignity of the Çadr had approached its kamál (perfection). Fathullah had not even the power of conferring five big’hahs: in fact he was an imaginary Çadr, as all lands had been withdrawn. And yet, the lands which had been withdrawn became the dwelling-places of wild animals, and thus belonged neither to the Aimahdárs, nor to farmers. However, of all these oppressions, there is at least a record left in the books of the Çadr, though of the office of the Çadr the name only is left. Page 368. Fathullah [the Çadr himself] laid before His Majesty a bag containing the sum of Rs. 1,000, which his collector by means of oppression, or under the pretext that an Aimahdár was not forthcoming or dead, had squeezed out of the widows and unfortunate orphans of the Parganah of Basáwar [which was his jágír], and said, ‘My collectors have this much collected from the Aimahdárs as a kifáyat (i. e. because the collectors thought the Súyúrghál holders had more than sufficient to live upon).’ But the emperor allowed him to keep the sum for himself.