History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c85.s4.3

v5.c85.s4.3

Even where war was not raging (as in Bengal), the weakening of the central Government emboldened provincial governors to defy imperial prohibitions, and to make money by forcing goods from traders at absurdly low prices and then selling them in the public marts, and also by exacting forbidden abwabs from craftsmen and merchants. [*Mughal Administration*, Ch. 5.]