Mughal Administration c8.s6.4

c8.s6.4

The public intelligencer of a province (*i.e.*, the *waqāi-navis*) appointed agents in most of the small *parganahs* to report to him the occurrences of these places, out of which he selected what was fit for the Emperor's ears and incorporated it in the provincial news-letter. In the offices of the subahdar, the diwan, the faujdar of the environs of the provincial capital, the court of justice, the kotwal's *chabutra*, he stationed his clerks, who brought to him every evening a record of what had occurred there during the day. In many of the important *parganahs*, separate reporters were posted directly from the imperial Court, to send to the provincial diwan *siāha* (ledgers of receipts) of the escheated *jagirs* of mansabdars who were dead, absconding or absent. [*Mirāt*, Sup. 174-175.]