Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.168

c10.168

“He ordered that wherever there was a village held by a proprietary right (*milk*), in free gift (*in’ām*) or as a religious endowment (*waqf*), it should by one stroke of the pen be brought under the Exchequer. So rigorous was the confiscation that beyond a few thousand *tankas*, all the pensions, grants of land (*in’ām-wa-mafrūz*), and endowments in the country were appropriated.”²