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| Dastur – revenue circles; division of territory into revenue circles for the purpose of land revenue assessment. Each such circle was called a Dastur. Jagirdar – holders of revenue assignments (Jagirs) in lieu of their services to the Mughal state. Jital – Copper currency (coins) of Delhi Sultanate. 48 Jitals were equivalent to one tanka Hundis – Bills of exchange Kankut – one of the methods of revenue assessment. Land was first measured, productivity of land then fixed and revenue demand per unit of measured area made. Karkun – village clerk. Karkhana – royal workshop, produced commodities for the use of the royal families and cultivated it with the help of hired labour. Khudkasht – rich/prosperous peasants who owned tracts of land and tools of agriculture. Kulkarni – village accountant in Deccan. Khut rich peasants of Sultanate era. Karwanis – merchants who moved together in large number and specialized in transportation of grain from rural areas. Khet-batai – one of the methods of crop sharing wherein fields were divided between the peasant and the state revenue agents with crop standing on the field. Lang-batai – another method of crop sharing; crop was first cut and stacked in heaps without separating grain and then the states share was decided. Muqaddam – village headman. Polaj – A category of land, best suited to cultivation which produced two crops annually. Parati – another category of land which required to be left fallow after raising two crops to enable it to recover its fertility. Patta – title deed, a document given by the state to each cultivator, containing details of land held by cultivators and rates of revenue applicable on it. Patwari – village accountant in North India. Qabuliyat – a deed agreement taken from peasants which made him to promise to pay land revenue to the state as per the patta specifications. Qanungo – a subordinate revenue official at the Pargana level. Rai’yat – ordinary peasant Rai – central schedule of crop prices. Sarraf – a community primarily concerned with monetary transactions; acted as money changers, bankers and issued hundis. Tanka – Standard silver coin of Delhi Sultanate. Zamindar – A class of landed intermediaries of the Mughal era who enjoyed hereditary land rights. |
