Mughal Administration c13.s4.1

c13.s4.1

From a careful study of the Mughal practice of escheating noblemen’s property after their death and Aurangzib’s rules and actual practice in this matter, I am impressed by the belief that here we have the Quranic law of the sacredness of private property superimposed upon an older and alien institution, namely the communal ownership of all property among a nomadic tribe.