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jagirs many of these men who were celebrated for devotion to 
virtue and love of the Prophet’s followers, and some who had got 
farmans of the Emperor, All other men who had been enjoying 
rdered that the aimadars should take to the business of 
rs, till all the lands they held in madd-o-m‘adash, and pay 
o the department of Crownlands or to the 
paid the revenue for the current year [118, b.], preserving their 
had no 
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Like fire they ate sticks [7.e., received beating] and 
gave up gold [or sparks], 
And then, through loss of strength, they fell down 
dead in misery. 
tion of the cultivated lands suffi- 
duce cannot be collected, because 
poor per- 
plexed sufferers could not go to Delhi t 
to the Emperor and get the wicked and oppressive 
above the ground, from a tree ne 
the brink of death and was saying: 
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Shall my life return [to my body] or shall it go out,— 
what is thy command ? 
The Nawwab ordered the author to go and ask the reason. 
I went to the old man and inquired. He replied, “ My son, who 
held thirty bighas of land in madd-o-m‘aash, has died. The amlas 
now demand from me one year’s revenue of the land. As I have 
no wealth, I shall give up my life and thus free myself [from the 
oppression].” I reported the matter to the Nawwab, who gave 
