This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... 1593 was (at 2s. 3d. the rupee 1 4636,000,000, because it is based on the assumption that the 640,00,00,000 murddi tarikas of Nizam-ad-din Ahmad's return for that year (which I have purposely omitted in the list given above) were equivalent to double dams. The terms dam and tanka are interchangeable, as is proved by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... 1593 was (at 2s. 3d. the rupee 1 4636,000,000, because it is based on the assumption that the 640,00,00,000 murddi tarikas of Nizam-ad-din Ahmad's return for that year (which I have purposely omitted in the list given above) were equivalent to double dams. The terms dam and tanka are interchangeable, as is proved by the inscriptions on the coins themselves, and though there were undoubtedly double dams, as well as double tankas, there is really no valid ground for assuming in this single instance a different fiscal unit from that employed in all the other returns. Thomas's doubling of the 640 crores in 1593 is, moreover, rendered still more improbable by the fact that 662 crores form the total for 1594--a perfectly possible increase. I therefore lake Nizam-addin's return to represent 18 000,000. Whilst disbelieving in the murddi tanka theory, however, as a ground for the higher estimate, I do not doubt that the gross revenue of Akbar in 1593 may have been quite thirty-six millions. 'Doubtless, ' remarks Catrou, 'such prodigious wealth is amazing; but it must be remembered that all these riches only enter the Mughal treasury to go out again, at least in part, every year, and flow again over the land. Half the empire subsists on the bounty of the Emperor or at least is in his keep. Besides the multitude of officers and soldiers who live by their pay, all the rural peasantry, who toil only for the sovereign, are supported at his cost, and almost all the artisans of the towns, who are made to work for the Mughal, are paid out of the royal exchequer.' When it is remembered that one Mughal Amir, and that an honest one, is recorded to have saved 'nearly 5000 crowns a month, ' or more than 13,000 a year, out of his allowance as 'Amir of 5000, ' it will be...
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Plates. Very Good in Good (in mylar) jacket. Hard Cover. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. No date of publication listed; bookshop ink-stamp on ffep. lightly bubbled end papers, otherwise textblock clean and tight; unclipped, moderately edge-wworn and torn dust jacket; 212p., including index.