Administrative System of the Marathas c27.s3.1

c27.s3.1

These were the principles that the Muhammadan Emperors endeavoured to enforce; they were never tired of repeating them in every farman they issued to their Revenue officers. Two such farmans have been translated by Prof. Jadunath Sarkar in his *Studies in Mughal India*a and though the documents are very lengthy, their intrinsic interest and value will fully justify the quotation of some extracts from them. After the usual preamble, it is laid down—"That officers of the present and future and *'amils* of the Empire of Hindusthan from end to end, should collect the revenue and other [dues] from the *mahals* in the proportion and manner fixed in the luminous Law and shining orthodox Faith, and [according to] whatever has been meant and sanctioned in this gracious mandate in pursuance of the correct and trustworthy Traditions,—