[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c22.12 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c22.12 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c22.12 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c22.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c22.12) The villages were grouped into larger units known as \*parganas\*, which were also recognised for administrative purposes. There was a headman (\*chaudhrī\*) in each \*pargana\*; his functions in the Muslim period are not described in the authorities, but he received orders from the administration, and exercised some sort of local jurisdiction. There was also a registrar or accountant (\*qānūngo\*) for the \*pargana\*; the post was ordinarily hereditary, and its holder was the repository of local agrarian knowledge, and, as the name implies, the interpreter of local customs on whom foreign administrators relied. - [Previous: v4.c22.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c22.11) - [Next: v4.c22.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c22.13) - [Up: v4.c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c22.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c22.12) · Pramāṇa