Mughal Administration c8.s1.4

c8.s1.4

The provincial Government kept touch with the villages by means of (1) the faujdars posted to the subdivisions, who almost always lived in the district towns, (2) the lower officials of the revenue department, who did the actual collection from the peasantry, (3) the visits of the zamindars to the subahdar’s court, and (4) the tours of the subahdar. The contact, however, was not very intimate, and the villagers, as I have remarked in the first chapter, were left pretty much to their own devices, uninfluenced by and indifferent to the Government at the chief town of the province, so long as they paid the land-tax and did not disturb the peace.