The Akbarī Generations 75.1

75.1

Muzaffar Khán, on arriving in Bengal, set about arranging the affairs of that province. But his prosperity was on the wane, and his day was gone by. He was harsh in his measures, he offended men with his words, he deprived many amírs of their jágírs, he demanded the dágh (brand-tax), and brought old practices up again. Bábá Khán Kákshál, although he was conciliatory, and begged that his jágír might be left undisturbed, was called upon for the dágh, and received no attention. The pargana of Jalesar, which was the jágír of Khaldí Khán, was taken away from him at the beginning of the spring harvest, and was added as tankhwáh to the jágír of Sháh Jamálu-d dín Husain. A sum of money due from the spring harvest had been received by Khaldí Khán, and to recover this Muzaffar Khán put him in prison, and ordered him to be scourged and bastinadoed.