A History of Agriculture in India v2.c71.s8: Free Kitchens

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Sher Shah is also credited with the institution of *langar*, free kitchen. According to Abbas Khan, ‘His kitchen was very extensive, for several thousand horsemen and private followers, who in the Afghan tongue are called “Fiahi”, fed there; and there was a general order, that if any soldier or religious personage, or any cultivator, should be in need of food, he should feed at the king’s kitchen, and should not be allowed to famish.’ He himself used to take his meals with learned men and Shaikhs.