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Revenue Free Land Grants in Mughal India - Awadh Region in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries (1658-1765) (Hardcover)
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Revenue Free Land Grants in Mughal India - Awadh Region in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries (1658-1765) (Hardcover)
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The study of social and economic history of India is one of the
dominant trends of the recent historiography. The present book
explains the different aspects of the revenue free grants
(madad-i-maash) of Awadh under the Mughals. The book starts with
the introduction which examines the physical featues and political
condition of Awadh region and an introductory outline of revenue
free grants. In the second chapter the policies of the Mughal
emperors for the assignment of the madad-i-maash have been
explained. In the third chapter procedures of the assignment of the
madad-i-maash and the nature of the grant have been discussed in
detail. In the fourth chapter, the high and low concentration of
the grants and the madad-i-maash holder families have been
described. The fifth chapter explains the role of the grantees in
the socio-economic life of the suba. In this chapter it has been
shown that how their role in the different spheres of the area made
them visible everywhere despite being small social group in terms
of their numerical strength. In the sixth chapter the position of
the grantees has been mentioned. Chapter 7 deals with the mutual
relations of the grantees. Their relations with the zamindars
(landed aristocrats) provincial and central authorities have been
discussed. Besides conclusion, three appendices regarding of the
grant in the suba of Awadh pargana wise, the size of grant holdings
of some madad-i-maash holders, some women grantees and a detailed
bibliography have been given.
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