Sher Shah’s Parganahs and their administrative Officials

H. N. Sinha

Sher Shah’s Parganahs and their administrative Officials

Vol. 16 · No. 1March - 1940pp. 166–169English

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“The office of the Amil seems to have been ૦1૯ of great importance, so that, Sher Shah is reported to have once remarked that “‘there 15 no such income and advantage 10 other employments 85 in the government of a district’™ Amildari most probably resem-”
“Hence we can main- tain that parganah government was run by five civil officers viz. the Shikdar, the Munsiff, the Fotahdar, and two Karkuns, and a Faujdar, who was the head of the military contingent posted there.”
“The statement of Wakiat-i-mustaki appears more reasonable and perhaps true to facts when it mentions that 'the whole of the territories 10 his (Sher 31321 5) possession cotitained 13,000 p-arganahs.'”

Works cited in this article

Elliot and Dowson, History of India, as told by its own historians, vol. IV, pp. 413-14.
Ibid., p. 413.
Elliot and Dowson, op. cit., vol. IV, pp. 413-14.
Elliot and Dowson, op. cit., vol. IV, p. s51.
lbid., [મૂઝ 551-52.

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Sher Shah 15
Abbas Khan
Prakafatman
Mr. Makhanlal Mukherji
Prof. K. Qanungo
Dr. Tripathi
H. N. Sinuha
Appayyadiksita 15

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Chitor 11
Rohtas
Khajwara
Dhandera
Nagor
Malwa 29
Judhpur

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