Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s2.t1.70

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c5.s2.t1.70

¹ Compare A., 130, for the anxiety of Firuz Tughluq in looking after his irrigation canals and the imposition of the new irrigation tax (*hasil-i-shurb*). The Sultan also colonized some waste lands in the kingdom, the taxes and revenues of which also went to swell the royal coffers and were partly spent on charitable endowments. For the increased produce, section IV.

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