The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c12.178

c12.178

This *dīwān* embraced officers of two kinds: the *muftī*, who gave the ruling, and the *mutafaḥḥiṣ*, who inquired into facts.¹ In addition, there were executive officers and clerks called *amīrs* and *mutaṣarrifs*.² It is not on record how far the military governors were empowered to punish acts of contumacy and rebellion. As prisoners of war and rebels were often sent to the capital, the governors do not seem to have possessed independent powers of inflicting capital punishment.³ Enemies and rebels, however, were sometimes executed in the provinces on receipt of instructions from headquarters⁴