Tarikh i Firoze Shahi

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Tarik i Firoze Shahi was written by Ziauddin Barani. He is more popular as Barani. The work covers a period from 1259 to 1352. His works begins where Minhaj had ended his work. His work is rated as the finest source of early medieval India. He was contemporary of Amir Khusrau and his associate also.

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The political theory of the Delhi sultanate: Including a translation of Ziauddin Barani's Fatawa-i Jahandari, circa, 1358-9 A.D

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Sijda/Zaminbos

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Sijda: Sijda is also called Zaminbos. It is form of respect paid to Emperor or high authority or Divine persona. The person doing sijda performs it by touching the ground with the forehead as act of adoration or worship to God. It was a controversial Mughal court custom. It was popular way of salutation during the Mughal period. Akbar banned it in public but continued it in private meetings. Jahangir encouraged such types of customs. Similar type of customs are Kornish and Taslim. Aurangzeb totally banned it.

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Society, Culture and Administration in Mughal India

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zamin-i zira 'ati

zamin-i zira 'ati: It means cultivated land. The term is mentioned in different documents of Mughal and Delhi Sultanate period.

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Recommended Authority:
Habib, Irfan: The Agrarian System of Mughal India, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0 19 565595, pp. 128.

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zamin-i paimuda

zamin-i paimuda: It means measured land. It is an account entry in Ain-i Akbari of Abu Fazal. The statistics of zamin-i paimuda are given for the year 1595-96 which was the 40th year of the reign of Akbar. It was further substantiated in the book of Chahar Gulshan of Rai Chaturman in 1759-60. The data about the land measured for ascertaining the revenue of different subas are given in the chapter entitled "Account of the Twelve Provinces". It does not include the data for Bengal, Thatta and Kashmir. 

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Irfan Habib, The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707.

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