The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c4.6

c4.6

*Pay in Naqd and in Jāgīr.* — Pay (*tankhwāh*: literally, *tan* 'body,' *khwāh* 'need') might be either *Naqd*, that is, given in cash (*naqd*); or *Jāgīr* (literally, *jā* 'place,' *gīr*, taking, from *giriftan*), that is an assignment (*jāgīr*) of the land revenue of a certain number of villages (*mauẓa‘*) or of a subdivision (*parganah*). A certain number of officers and soldiers, chiefly those of the infantry and artillery, who were, as a rule, on the pay list of the emperor himself, were paid in cash. This seems to have been the case in all reigns up to quite the end. But the favourite mode of payment was by an assignment of the government revenue from land. Such an arrangement seems to have suited both parties. The State was a very centralized organization, fairly strong at the centre, but weak at the extremities. It was glad to be relieved of the duty of collecting and bringing in the revenue from distant places.