A History of Agriculture in India v2.c85.s6.1

v2.c85.s6.1

As regards the peasantry and their condition, we have reliable evidence in the observations of the European travellers who travelled in India in the seventeenth century. Peter Mundy tells us that the peasants near Agra were treated 'as Turks treat Christians', 'taking from them all they can get by their labour, leaving them nothing but their bad, mud-walled, ill-thatched houses and a few cattle to till the ground, besides other miseries.'