Revenue Administration Of Rajasthan

The Present book entitled, "Revenue Administration of Rajasthan" (A Study of Eighteenth Century Marwar) has been revised form of my PhD. thesis. This work was presented as a thesis to the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, in 2016, for award of ph.d. in history. The state of Marwar, presently known as "Jodhpur" was the largest state in Rajputana during the period under study. The term Marwar, originally comes from "Maroowar" or "Marubhumi" which supposed to mean "The Killing Land" due to its oceanic expanse of sparkling yellow sands dunes and barren rocks of the Aravalli range. The Present book is an attempt to study or reconstruct the pattern of important administrative features and machineries prevalent in the state of Marwar. I consider it to be a useful production of combine detail of the subjects with comprehensiveness and interpretation, because of a few major issues have been studied here for the first time. Such as study of relations between centre and provincial level government, discuss all important aspects of revenue administration and its role in shaping the state economy and polity of a certain period in the present undertaking in detail. So it has much wider scope. It is a fascinating, meticulously documented study of 18th century Marwar. The period of study 1700 to 1800 has been chosen so as plenty of primarily source material is available in various research institute of Rajasthan as well as other parts of India. Indeed, throughout this work, I have used a large mass of relevance material in manuscripts and in printed records of the study. Extensive use of bahiyats (bahis), administrative reports, public proceedings and private papers has been made. I have taken particular care to analyzing the records in the context of the study or subject. It was the time when the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate and the rulers of Marwar as well as other states of Rajputana became independent for all practical purposes, felt the need of taking a keen interest in the process of administering their own states to augment their resources. The present study contains eight chapters, which highlight the various aspects of entire administration especially the revenue of Marwar along with tracing the impact of the Mughals on it during the 18th century in exhaustive and exclusively way. The social, economic and administrative terms in their original form though infrequently their English versions have been given and the dates, generally, are given in the vikram samvat though at places their corresponding Christian (Gregorian) dates have also been given in this undertaking study. The book opens with an introduction chapter of geographical features of the state. The second part of the chapter deals with the dynastic and political history of Marwar up to 18th century. I have dealt with aspects of that historic relationship in practicable way that is, examining the mughals impact on the state and its multiform aspects on the basis of contemporary and primary source material Thus; I have examined the political impact, administrative impact, and the economic impact. I consider it to be a useful and necessary introduction for the purpose of this study. **Contents and Sample Pages**