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MUGHAL LAND REVENUE SYSTEM
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Author(s):
KAPIL KUMAR
Vol - 6, Issue- 11 ,
Page(s) : 34 - 42
(2015 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ
Abstract
The central feature of the agrarian system under the Mughals was the alienation from the peasant of his surplus produce (produce over and above the subsistence level) in the form of land revenue which was the main source of state's income. Early British administrators regarded the land revenue as rent of the soil because they had a notion that the king was the owner of the land. Subsequent studies of Mughal India have shown that it was a tax on the crop and was thus different from the land revenue as conceived by the British. Abul Fazl in his Ain-i Akbari justifies the imposition of taxes by the state saying that these are the remuneration of sovereignty, paid in return for protection and justice.
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