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W.H. Moreland’s From Akbar to Aurangzeb is a study in Indian economic history of the first half of the seventeenth century during the reigns of the Mughal Emperors Jahangir and Shahjahan. This period is important from the standpoint of economic institutions and is marked by certain far-reaching changes which ushered in a new era in the commercial relations of India with the traders from the west. In the present work, Moreland has examined various details on the ...
India's fabulous wealth was a constant refrain in the narratives of European travelers of the 16-17th centuries. Was India so rich? Even a cursory reading of India's political history of that period shows-wars were common;nobles and rulers squandered their income; ostentation and not thrift was the ideal of the day; there was more of consumption, and less of production; the lawlessness on the highways, the administrative corruption and rapacity of tax-collectors ...
The agrarian system of moslem india is in the nature of a historical essay on the revenue policy of the muslim sultans and emperors. Since the 13th century an appreciable contact had been established between the hindu and islamic agrarian systems. The main subject of study is an examination of the methods by which the state's share of the farmer's produce was assessed and collected and of the arrangements under which portions of produce were alienated in favour ...