Mughal Administration c9.s3.2

c9.s3.2

∗ Cf. Abu Yusuf, 76:—"I have not found anything more fruitful for the Treasury and less inconvenient for the people subject to the land-revenue, [more] effective in protecting them from the abuses to which they render themselves liable by passing the burden from one to another among themselves, and more suitable for saving them from ill-treatment by the administrators and collectors,—than a just and light payment in kind (muqāsama, division of crops) : the prince finds in it his satisfaction, the tax-payers a benefit and a guarantee against mutual injustice consisting in shoving off the tax from one to another."