The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c16.11

c16.11

In an old account of the village Wing (Vāngī) . . . it is stated that “during the management of the Nubeeyar of the Koolburga Sultanate there was neither a division of the fields nor of the bounds of the village, the plains being covered with grass and the occupation of the people the feeding of cattle, for which a fixed sum was exacted . . . . During the management of the Bureadus (Barīd Shāhīs of Bīdar, 1487–1609) and in the administration of the black and white Khojas (ministers) the village bounds were fixed, portions of land were given to particular persons, whose names were registered and a rent was established” and then there follows a list of their fields.⁷