The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c22.31

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As regards the method of collection, Sher Shāh granted assignments as his predecessors had done; there is nothing on record to indicate that he curtailed the freedom which assignees had previously enjoyed, though the general character of his administration renders this not improbable. We may be confident that his methods were followed closely in the tracts reserved for the treasury, and we may conjecture that, to a varying extent, they prevailed also in assignments.