Mughal Administration c9.s4.1

c9.s4.1

The lower officials of Mughal India were incurably corrupt, while the highest were, on the whole, just and statesmanlike except an occasional diwan who inflated the revenue demand *on paper* and farmed the collection to the highest bidder with ruinous consequences, as can be illustrated from the revenue history of Orissa in the 17th century.