The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c4.s2.24

c4.s2.24

In another passage, fol. 41, the same authority explains the matter thus. In the twenty-first year of *‘Ālamgīr*, a report on this subject having been made, the emperor allowed a term of four turns of guard (*chaukī*) for a *manṣabdār* to produce men of his own class or family (*barādarī*), and for this period pay for the men was passed as if they had been present. But subsequently, on the first Rabī‘ of the twenty-third year, the delay was extended to two months, and for the time during which such men were not actually present, pay at half-rates was sanctioned.