Agrarian relations : the AIN-I-AKBARI Flashcards
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IN 16TH AND 17TH POPULATION ENGAGED IN
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85 %
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ABOUT AIN I AKBARI
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- WRITTEN BY ABDUL FAZL
- DETAILED REVENUE REPORTS : GUJRAT , MAHARASTRA AND RAJASTHAN DATING BACK TO 17-18TH C.
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EXCERPT FROM THE BABUR NAMA ABOUT IRRIGATION DEVICES IN NORTHERN INDIA
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- IN LAHORE, DILAPUR : PEOPLE WATER BY MEANS OF A WHEEL, WHEEL WELL .
- IN AGRA , CHANDWAR , BAYANA [IN U.P]
WATER WITH BUCKET.
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TERM USED FOR PEASANT [MUGHAL PERIOD]
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RAIYAT [PLURAL,RAIYA]
OR MUZARIAN
* ALSO CALLED : ASAMI OR KISAN
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THE SOURCES REFERED TO TWO KIND OF PEASANTS :
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- KHUD-KHASTA
- pahi kashta
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KHUD-KHASTA
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- land in village where they lived
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pahi kashta
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non resident cultivators
who belong to some other village
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northern irrigation technology -
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- digging of new canals - nahr,nala
- shahnahr- punjab during shah jahan’s reign.
- wooden plough with a iron tip
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two major seasonal cycle: kharif and rabi [do fasla]. they also encourage commercial crops :
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- cotton and sugarcane were jin i kamil- means perfect crops in mughal sources.
- cotton was grown over a vast swathe of territory - central india and deccan plateau
- bengal - sugar
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maize reached indian subcontient through
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world
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portuguese introduced
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potato, tomato and chilies
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about tobacco -
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- first in the deccan spread to northern india - 17 c.
- akbar came across tobacoo in - 1604
- hookah or chillums
- jahangir - banned it
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the village community consists of three things
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- cultivators
- panchayat
- headman - ‘muqaddam’ or ‘ mandal’
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who are ‘‘halalkhoran’’
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scavengers- live outside the village
