The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c7.s4.1

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Something on this subject will be found in the Āīn, i, 250, where the reference is confined to the aḥadīs; Dr. Horn, so far as he goes into the matter at all, deals with it on p. 49 of his work. In later times, at all events, the rule of mustering and verification seems to have been of almost universal application. For example, in a work called the Guldastah-i-Bahār, a collection of letters from Chhabīlah Rām, Nāgar, compiled in 1139 H. (1726--7), of which I possess a fragment, I find on fol. 18a an instance of the verification rules being enforced against a manṣabdār in the end of Bahādur Shāh's reign (1118--24 H.). Chhabīlah Rām, who was then faujdār of Karrah Mānikpur (ṣūbah Allāhābād), complains to his patron that the clerks had caused his jāgīr, in parganah Jājmau, bringing in ten lakhs of dāms, to be taken away from him, because he had not produced vouchers of *dāgh-o-taṣḥīḥah*. He sends the papers by a special messenger, and prays his correspondent, some influential man at Court, to obtain the restoration of the *jāgīr* in question.