The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c15.s1.36

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Military districts. The case of Karra on the Ganges near Allahabad, may be cited as an example of a military division being eventually converted into a civil administrative unit. During Iltutmish’s reign it formed the military charge of an *amir*, but by the time of Mahmud, it had attained the status of an ordinary *iqta*².

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