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∗ Mirat-i-Ahmadi, 314. The revenue of the province of Gujrat about 1695 was 145 lakhs of Rupees. (India of Aurangzib, xxxii.) † As the official history written from State papers at the instance of his favourite secretary puts it, "All the aims of the religious Emperor being directed to the spread of the law of Islam and the overthrow of infidel practices, he issued orders that from 1st Rabi-ul-awwal (=2 April 1679), *jaziya* should be levied from the *zimmis* in accordance with the Quranic injunction till they pay compensation out of their hands in humility." (M.A. 174.) The *Mirat-i-Ahmadi*, 313, another history based upon official papers, ascribes the same motive to the Emperor. The theory of some modern writers that the *jaziya* was only commutation money paid for exemption from military