History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c45.s3.3

v3.c45.s3.3

∗ For zimmis or protected non-Muslims, Hughes 710-713; Encyclopædia of Islam, i. 958, 1051; Muir's Caliphate, 3rd ed., 149-158. "Each adult, male, free, sane Zimmi must pay a poll-tax, jizya. His real estate either becomes a waqf for the whole body of Muslims, but of which he continues to have the use, or he holds it still as his own. In either event he pays on it and its crops a land-tax, kharaj, which on the owner being a Muslim falls. He is liable also to other