The agrarian system of Mughal India 1556 - 1707

CONTENTS
Note to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Excerpt from the Preface to the First Edition

I. AGRICULTURALPRODUCTION:
l. Extent of Cultivation;
2. Means of Cultivation and Irrigation;
3. The Crops and Other Agricultural
Produce;
4. Agricultural Manufactures;

II. TRADE IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE:
l. Long-distance Trade;
2. Local Trade; the Peasant and the
Market;
3. Movements of Agricultural Prices;

III. MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE LIFE OF
THE PEASANTRY
l. General Description;
2. Famines;

IV. THE PEASANT AND THE LAND; THE VILLAGE
COMMUNITY:
l. Agrarian Property; the Peasant
and the Land;
2. Peasants and Labourers;
3. The Village Community;
4. Village Officials;

V. THE ZAMINDARS:
l. Nature of Zamlnddri Right;
2. Genesis, Composition and Strength
of the Zamindar Class;
3. Imperial Administration and the
Zamtndars;
4. Autonomous Chiefs;

VI. THE LAND REVENUE:
l. Magnitude of the Land-Revenue
Demand;
2. Methods of Land-Revenue Assessment;
3. The Systems of Revenue Assessment
in the Different Regions;
4. The Basic Unit of Assessment; the
Individual Peasant Holding and the
Village;
5. The Medium of Payment;
6. Collection of Land Revenue;
7. Rural Taxes and Exactions Other
than Land Revenue;
8. Methods of Relief and Agricultural
Development;

VII. REVENUE ASSIGNMENTS
l. Jagtrs and Khali;a
2. The Machinery of Revenue
Administration;

VIII. REVENUE GRANTS;

IX. THE AGRARIAN CRISIS OF THE MUGHAL
EMPIRE:
l. The Empire and the Assignment
System;
2. Oppression of the Peasantry;
3. Armed Resistance by the Peasantry;
4. The Political Role of the Zamrnd6rs;
5. Agrarian Aspects of the Revolts
Against the Mughal Empire;

APPENDICES:
A. MEASURES OF LAND:
l. Gaz-i Sikandari;
2. Gaz-i lldhi;
3. Bigha-i Daftari;

B. WEIGHTS:
l. Standard Mans;
2.The Mans and Other Weights
used in the Various Regions;
3. Weights used in European Sources;

C. THE COINAGE AND THE GOLD AND COPPER
VALUE OF THE RUPEE:
1. The Coinage;
2. Gold Value of the Rupee;
3. Copper Value of the Rupee;
4. The 'Price Revolution' in India;

D. REVENUE STATISTICS:
l. Jama';
2. Hasil;

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
l. Contemporary and Earlier Sources;
2. Modern Works;
ABBREVIATIONS;
INDEX.