Mughal Administration c13.s4.5

c13.s4.5

Therefore, the State claimed what was left of a life’s acquisitions due to its own sanction, money aid, and armed support. The empire was communal property, and the Amir, Sultan or Padishah, as the Commander of the Faithful, was entitled to escheat all the earnings of the officers in this army of Islam. He was only the trustee of the rights of the Sovereign Congregation (jamait) of true believers, as the tribal patriarch had been in the days before their conversion to Islam. Whether the nomadic society was patriarchal (as before Islam), or theocratic (as under Islam), property was equally communal.