The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c11.2

c11.2

(THE importance of sound state finance was widely recognized by Muslim political thinkers as well as administrators; solvency and stability were to go hand in hand.¹) The sources of income and the channels of expenditure were, on the whole, well defined. The sultanate of Dehlī organized the main features of its financial administration on the lines laid down by the *shar'* and the Abbasid tradition. By the time the system reached India, it had been carefully elaborated and its principles were clearly understood. Indigenous finance was not very different and the Hindus did not find it difficult to adjust minor differences of detail.