Mughal Administration c8.s3.1

c8.s3.1

The provincial DIWAN* was the second officer in the locality and, as I have pointed out in the first chapter, he was the rival of the subahdar. The two had to keep a strict and jealous watch on each other, thus continuing the earliest administrative policy and traditions of the Arabs when they went forth after the Prophet’s death, conquering the world and establishing their new government in the annexed lands.