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NOTES TO CHAPTER X 405
9. The studies of W. H. Moreland in Muslim administration may be particularly
recommended : A) The agrarian system of Moslem India (Cambridge, 1929) where the
varying meaning of terms, or different terminology of vanous reigns is duly studied, and
a careful attempt made at standardization that would not be possible for the ordinary
reader from the sources or translations. B) India at the death of Akbar (London 1920).
C) From Akbar to Aurangzeb; ‘A study in Indian economic history* (London 1923).
For the general development of the economy of Bengal at the end of the Mughal period,
cf. KSlinlkinkar Datta : Studies in the history of the Bengal subah vol. I (Calcutta
University, 1936) ; S. Bhattacharya : The East Indian Company and the economy of
Bengal from 1704 to 1740 (London 1954). The economic and sociological condition of
the single village of Badlapur 42 miles from Bombay 1 on the rail route to Poona has
been studied with admirable patience (though unjustified theorizing about the origins of
cults &c.) by N. G. Chapekar in his Marathi book Badlapur (Poona, 1933). This work
should be followed up by a post-war report on the same village, to investigate further
disruption by outside commodity production.
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