The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c22.47

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This regulation system extended, broadly speaking, to the plains of northern India, excluding the areas left in the hands of the Hindu chiefs, that is to say, to the provinces of Multān, Lahore, Delhi (excluding the Kumāūn hills), Āgra, Allahābād, and the bulk of Bihār; but the southern parts of the two last-named provinces, bordering on the unadministered region known as Gondwāna, were excluded from its operations, as was the hill-country lying between Bihār and Bengal. The system was in force also in those parts of Ajmer which were not left to the chiefs, and it is said to have been introduced in Mālwā, but the records regarding this province are obscure; the eastern portion, bordering on Gondwāna, and the western portion, bordering on Ajmer, were left to chiefs, while apparently some arrangements more simple than the regulation system were in force over a large part of the remainder of the province.