The Agrarian System of Moslem India: A Historical Essay with Appendices c19.16

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(2) Tīmūr’s practice regarding Assignments (pp. 236 ff.) was that allocation was made by lot, that an Assignment was held for three years, that it was then inspected, and that, if the assignee was found to have oppressed the peasants, he received no salary for the next three years. In Mogul India, allocation was not by lot, but by favour of the Dīwān, the term of holding was indeterminate, and there is no record of any process of inspection, or of a prescribed penalty for oppression.