INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

HISTORIan FAMINES. 11
Sultan gave orders that all the Khalsa villages
of the Doab * should pay tribute in kind. The
corn was brought into the granaries of the city
of Delhi In the country dependent on the
new city, half the Sultan's portion (of the produce)
was ordered to be taken in grain. In
Jhain, also, and in the villages of Jhain, stores
were to be fonnell. These stores of grain were
to be sent into the city in caravans. By these
means, so much royal grain came into Delhi
that there never was a time when there were
not two or three royal granaries full of grain in
the city. When there was a deficiency of rain,
or when, for any reason, the caravans did not
arrive, and the grain became scarce in the markets,
then the royal stores were opened, and
the corn was sold at the tariff price, according
to the wants of the people. Grain was also
consigned to the caravans from the new city.
Through these two rules grain was never deficient
in the markets, and never rose one dang
above the fixed price." Regulation IV.-" The
Caravans. The Sultan placed all the carriers of
• The province lying between the Jumna and the Ganges
rivers. Literally, Doab mea!lll "two waters."