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.s1.38

c15.s1.38

The chronicles mention no smaller administrative unit below the *iqta* as comprising rural areas. Barani occasionally mentions *parganahs* and *foujdars*, but no adequate evidence is forthcoming to enable us to consider these as representing subdivisional organizations. Early in the next century, we hear of the *shiqq* and the *sadi* but to ascribe them inferentially to the Mameluke governmental arrangement would require more contemporary evidence than is at present available.