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# Mughal Administration c10.s2.5

Mughal Administration c10.s2.5

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### [c10.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c10.s2.5)

"The Emperor himself moderates in all matters of consequence which happen near his Court, for the most part judging \*secundum allegata and probata\*. Trials are quick and so the executions. The governors in cities and provinces proceed in like form of justice. I could never hear of law written among them : the king and his substitutes' will is Law." (\*Ibid\*, ix. 47.)

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