[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903) › c7.7 # The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c7.7 The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c7.7 - **Language:** English ### [c7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c7.7) 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. - [Previous: c7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c7.6) - [Next: c7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c7.8) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c7.7) · Pramāṇa