History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c45.s9.3
History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c45.s9.3
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v3.c45.s9.3
service is not borne out by history, for it was as late as 10th May, 1855 that ‘‘the *jaziya* as a tax on the free exercise of religion was replaced by a tax for exemption from military service’’ even in European Turkey. (*Encyclo. Islam*, i. 1052.)