Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c8.26

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c8.26

The Indian yard has had a very chequered history. Many different measures of a yard were in use which differed from one locality to another and even for various commodities. Sultan Sikandar Lodi introduced a uniform measure of yard (*gaz*) for official calculation which works out (with the addition of ¼th of an inch) at 30 inches of the present measure.³ So that our present yard stands in a ratio of 6 : 5 for purposes of rough calculation.

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