Administrative System of the Marathas c27.s3.27

c27.s3.27

But it will be a mistake to suppose that the Muhammadans simply transmitted the old Hindu system and did not add to it anything of their own. It has not been possible to quote the two documents in full, but it is necessary to mention that in some of the omitted instructions the Emperor Aurangzib makes distinction between tithe-paying and rent-paying lands which is certainly Islamic in origin. This distinction naturally did not find any place in the Maratha system which as we have already noticed (in Book II) recognised the claims of Brahmans to various concessions.