The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c4.s1: Statement (Ḥaqīqat)
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c4.s1
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Statement (Ḥaqīqat)
c4.s1.1
Khwājah Raḥmatullah, son of Khwājah Aḥmad, a native of Balkh, who was attached to the standards in Province So-and-so, having come to the Presence in pursuance of the exalted orders, and the *jāgīr* which, up to such-and-such a harvest, was held by him in the said Province, having been granted to So-and-so, in this matter what is the order as to the *tankhwāh jāgīr* of the above-named.
c4.s1.2
[on the margin] { Presentation (*mulāzamat*) Day so-and-so, month so-and-so Offering (*nazar*) 9 Muhrs (gold coins) and 18 Rupees. }
c4.s1.3
This *ḥaqīqat* was passed on by the *Diwān-i-tan* to the Diwān-i-ʿālā (or wazīr). The latter placed it before the Emperor. If an order were given for a jāgīr to be granted, the wazīr endorsed on the paper, "The pure and noble order issued to grant a jāgīr in tankhwāh from the commencement of such-and-such a harvest." This paper then became the voucher for the chief clerk to the Diwān-i-tan, who wrote out a siyāha daul, or Rough Estimate, as follows: