ABSTRACT
Much the Muslim invasions may have altered the pattern of Indian life in some respects, in the matter of land revenue no revolutionary change occurred. The system of revenue-farming, well known in Hindu times, was much favoured by the Mughals. In practice, the cultivator in general had a great measure of security of tenure during most of the Hindu period. The establishment of different rates for different kinds of crops seems to have been characteristic of Muslim, as distinct from Hindu, revenue administration, and was apparently in line with Islamic thought on Muslim subject in other countries. The governor of a province would contract to make an annual payment which was calculated to be the difference between estimated revenue receipts and probable expenditure on state purposes. One other important development in the revenue administration in Jalal-ud-din Akbar’s reign was the establishment of closer central control.
