Mughal Administration c10.s3.2

c10.s3.2

As the provincial *qāzi*’s jurisdiction was very vast and he had no assistant or deputy legally competent to share his burden, only a small part of the disputes in the provinces could be tried by him. The Indian villager in the Mughal empire was denied the greatest pleasure of his life in our own times, viz., facility for civil litigation with Government courts of first instance close at his doors and an abundance of courts of appeal rising up to the High Court at the capital.