History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c84.s5.t1.17

v5.c84.s5.t1.17

The life of the province varied as the characters of its successive governors varied. Some of them, like Itimad Khan and Fazil Khan administered justice with great diligence and honoured learning. Others, like Saif Khan, introduced innovations in the form of new exactions such as (a) assessing the revenue by the actual measurement of the land, in the place of the old practice of making a rough eye-estimate of it based on guess, (b) taxing the people to make good any loss or damage to things ordered from the province by the Emperors (*qasur-i-farmaish*), and (c) change in or deduction from men's salaries due.