The Book of Akbar 37: Remission of the Jizya.
Akbar-náma, of Shaikh Abu-l Fazl (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 37
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[Text, vol. ii. p. 257.] One of the munificent acts of the Emperor at the beginning of this the ninth year of his reign was the remission of the jizya (poll-tax upon infidels), which, in a country so extensive as Hindustan, amounted to an immense sum.