Administrative System of the Marathas c27.s4.4

c27.s4.4

The Muhammadan rulers in India did not always strictly follow the financial theories of Muhammadan theologians. Thus in Akbar's classification of land we find that more attention was paid to the state of cultivation than to the factors enumerated by Al-Mawardi² although the *polaj* and *porauti* lands were divided into three classes,—good, middling and bad.