History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c7.78

c7.78

which means that the tax was raised from one to ten and not ten per cent as Mr. De suggests in his translation.⁴⁶ Firishta differs from all these and writes : ده سی و ده چهل which means that the Sultan raised tax from ten to thirty and forty in the Doab.⁴⁷ Hajjī-ad-Dabīr is more explicit when he says that the land which brought one *tankah* since the days of Islamic conquest now brought ten and twenty *tankahs*.