Storia do Mogor 212
Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 212
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List of the Provinces in the Mogul Empire, Twenty-four in Number, with a Statement of the Revenues drawn from Each, from Grain only and Other Products Necessary to Life, over and above Other Revenue to be noted hereafter. First let us state the names of the divisions, towns, and villages which are in these provinces or are dependent on them. Sarkar means 'division'; pargana means a government subordinate to a division.
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Karors. Lakhs. Rupees. 1. The province of Deli (Dihli) has under it eight sarkars and two hundred and twenty parganahs, which yield one karor twenty-five lakhs and fifty thousand rupees 1 25 50,000 2. The province of Agra or Akbarabad has under it fourteen sarkars and two hundred and seventy-eight parganahs, which yield two karors twenty-two lakhs and three thousand seven hundred and fifty rupees 2 22 03,750 3. The province of Lahor has five sarkars and three hundred and fourteen parganahs, which yield two karors thirty-three lakhs and five thousand rupees ... 2 33 05,000 4. The province of Ajmer, which yields from its sarkars and parganahs two karors nineteen lakhs and two thousand rupees ... ... ... ... 2 19 02,000 5. [5°] The province of Gujarat has nine sarkars and nineteen parganahs, which yield two karors thirty-three lakhs and ninety-five thousand rupees ... 2 33 95,000 6. The province of Malwah has eleven sarkars and two hundred and fifty parganahs, which yield ninety-nine lakhs six thousand two hundred and fifty rupees ... 0 99 06,250 Karors. Lakhs. Rupees. 7. The province of Patnah or Bihar has eight sarkars and two hundred and forty-five parganahs, which yield one karor twenty-one lakhs and fifty thousand rupees 1 21 50,000 8. The province of Multan has fourteen sarkars and ninety-six parganahs, which yield fifty lakhs and twenty-five thousand rupees 0 50 25,000
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9. The province of Kabul has thirty-five parganahs, which yield thirty-two lakhs and seven thousand two hundred and fifty rupees 0 32 07,250 10. The province of Tattah and its dependencies, sixty lakhs and twelve thousand rupees 0 60 12,000 11. The province of Bhakkar and its dependencies yield twenty-four lakhs 0 24 00,000 12. The province of Urecha [Orissa] has eleven sarkars and [one hundred] parganahs, which yield fifty-seven lakhs and seven thousand five hundred rupees 0 57 07,500 13. The province of Kashmir has forty-six parganahs, which yield thirty-five lakhs [and] five thousand rupees . . . 0 35 05,000 14. The province of Allahabad, with its dependencies, yields seventy-seven lakhs and thirty-eight thousand rupees 0 77 38,000 15. The province of Aurangabad or Daulatabad, in the Dakhin, has eight sarkars and seventy-nine parganahs, which yield one karor sixty-two lakhs and four thousand seven hundred and fifty rupees ... 1 72 04,750 16. The province of Barar has six sarkars and one hundred and ninety-one parganahs, which yield one karor fifty-eight lakhs and seven thousand five hundred rupees 1 58 07,500 17. The province of Burhanpur or Khandes has three sarkars and one hundred and three parganahs, which yield one karor eleven lakhs and five thousand rupees 1 11 05,000 18. The province of Baglanah has forty-three parganahs, and yields sixty-eight lakhs and eighty-five thousand rupees 0 68 85,000
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19. The province of Nande [Nander ?] yields seventy-two lakhs ... 0 72 00,000 20. The province of Dhakkah or Bengal yields four karors 4 00 00,000 21. The province of Ujjain yields two karors 2 00 00,000 22. The province of Rajmahal yields one karor and fifty thousand rupees 1 00 50,000 Karors. Lakhs. Rupees. 23. The kingdom of Bijapur, with the Karnatik, yields six karors... 5 00 00,000 24. The kingdom of Gulkandah, with another portion of the Karnatik, yields five karors ... 5 00 00,000 38 71 94,000 [51] Although the Mogul asserts himself to be ruler over fifty-four provinces, I do not name them all, because they are for the most part in these days subdivisions of the provinces that I have just enumerated. To understand the revenues of which I have just given the figures, it should be known that a karor is one hundred lakhs, or ten millions, and that a lakh is one hundred thousand rupees. When summed up the whole comes to three hundred and eighty-seven millions one hundred and ninety-four thousand rupees, or in French money at thirty sols to the rupee, five hundred and eighty millions seven hundred and ninety-one thousand livres.
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In addition to this revenue obtained from grain, et cetera, there are other considerable receipts. One is the tribute paid by the Hindus, as I have stated in my Second Part (II. 182). This has no fixed total, being sometimes more and sometimes less. This variation is caused by deaths, and by travellers moving from one place to another. If carrying with them a receipt for what they have paid, the latter are allowed to pass free. But if they chance to lose this paper, or it be stolen, they are made to pay again either in the same or in another province. The officials embezzle their collections most terribly, to such an extent that the king gets more often than not less than half. There is a second customs duty upon goods brought by Hindu merchants ; it is five per cent. ; and though Aurangzeb