The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c22.16

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The operation of these ideas can be traced in documents issued in the Muslim period by the Revenue Ministry, an organisation which was, of course, controlled by the ruler of the time, but which appears to have preserved its continuity during periods of violent political change, and to have maintained a permanent departmental tradition of its own. To attract peasants to vacant land, to induce peasants to extend the area tilled, to secure improvement in the class of crops grown, these were the permanent ideals, though in practice they might often be masked by the need or the greed of the moment.