The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c11.57

c11.57

The word kharāj, in its Aramaic form, precedes the birth of the Prophet.⁶ The earlier Muslims used the term Kharāj in the sense of a tax, but later it came to be identified with land revenue. All lands conquered by force and not divided among the Muslim soldiers but left to their non-Muslim owners or given to non-Muslim settlers from elsewhere are kharājī lands.⁷