The Institutes of Akbar 260.2

260.2

In the 11th year, he abolished the Jam’ i Raqmi. This is the name of the assessment of the Dihli empire, which had existed since the time of Bairam; but the rent roll shewed an assessment very different from the actual state of things; for, on account of the number of men (kasrat i mardum, i.e. Jagir holders) and the unsettled state (galb i wilayat) of the country, the revenue was increased in name (banam afzudah) for the sake of mere shew (barai mazid i i’tibar). This Jam’ i Raqmi was now abolished (vide Third Book, A’in i Dahsalah), and Muzaffar prepared a rent roll, according to his experience and the returns of Qanungos. The new rent roll was called Jam’ i Hasil i Hal, or the Roll of the present actual income (vide p. 352). As the Dagh law (pp. 255, 256, and p. 242) did not then exist, Muzaffar Khan fixed the number of soldiers which the contingents of the Amirs and the Mulazims (friends of the king) should contain, and the soldiers were divided into three classes. In the 12th year, it was reported that Muzaffar loved a boy of the name of Qutb. Akbar had the boy forcibly removed, whereupon Muzaffar assumed the garb of a Faqir, and went into the forest. Akbar was thus obliged to recall him, and restored the beloved.