The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c16.s10.14

c16.s10.14

These conclusions find support in Firishta which says that the salaries under 'Alā-u'd-dīn Khaljī were 234 tankahs for the best, 156 for the middling and 78 for the lowest class of cavalrymen (I, p. 199). These suggestions require a complete change in our ideas of the meaning of the word do-aspah in our period ; hitherto it has generally been understood to mean a horseman with two horses. The latter was the meaning attached to the word under the Mughuls, but the significance of the term obviously underwent a change.