The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c7.7
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c7.7
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¹ Literally 'face,' 'countenance.' It must not be confounded with *chīrah*, which means (1) a kind of turban, (2) a pay-roll, on which the recipients signed, (3) the pay itself. *Chīrah* is used in the second sense in *Aḥwāl-ul-khawāqīn*, fol. 230*b*; and also by Ghulām Ḥasan, Samīn, when telling us of the taunt addressed in 1170 H. (1757) by Aḥmad Khān, Bangash, to Najīb Khān, Najīb-ud-daulah, of having been once a private trooper in Farrukhābād, where his pay-rolls (*chīrah-hāe*) were still in existence.