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" When the collector of the Diwan " asks them, (the Hindus) to pay the tax, they should " pay it with all humility and submission. And if the " collector wishes to spit into their mouths, they should " open their mouths without the slightest fear of con"... "
Akbar - Page 150
by George Bruce Malleson - 1890 - 204 pages
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The Ain i Akbari, Part 248, Volume 1

Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak - India - 1873 - 788 pages
...Diwan vks them (tlie Hindus) to pay the tax, they should pay it with all humility and Mitimission. Anil if the Collector wishes to spit into their mouths,...they should open their mouths without the slightest U'Jir of contamination (tuyazzuz), so that the Collector may do so. In this state i.Ģith their mouths...
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An Easy Introduction to the History and Geography of Bengal: For the Junior ...

Ebenezer Lethbridge - Bengal (India) - 1874 - 134 pages
...should pay it with all humility and submission. And if the collector wishes to spit into their months, they should open their mouths without the slightest...of contamination so that the collector may do so. In this state, with their mouths open, they should stand before the collector. The object of such humiliations...
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The Emperor Akbar: A Contribution Towards the History of India in ..., Volume 2

Friedrich August Graf von Noer - India - 1890 - 472 pages
...and consequent loss of caste — his highest good. " "When the collector of the Diwan " asks them, (the Hindus) to pay the tax, they should " pay it..." open their mouths without the slightest fear of con" tamination, so that the collector may do so. The " object of such humiliations and spitting into...
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The Emperor Akbar: A Contribution Towards the History of India in ..., Volume 2

Friedrich August Graf von Noer - India - 1890 - 644 pages
...them, (the Hindus) to pay the tax, they should " pay it with all humility and submission. And if the (t collector wishes to spit into their mouths, they should..." open their mouths without the slightest fear of con" tamination, so that the collector may do so. The " object of such humiliations and spitting into...
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The North-Western Provinces of India: Their History, Ethnology, and ...

William Crooke - Customary law - 1897 - 418 pages
...the tax, they should pay it with all humility and submission ; and if the Collector wishes to spit in their mouths, they should open their mouths without...of contamination, so that the Collector may do so. In this state, with their mouths open, they should stand before the Collector. The object of such humiliation...
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Sketches of Rulers of India ...

George Devereux Oswell - Great Britain - 1908 - 240 pages
...pen of the author of the Tarikh-i -Firuz Shahi, and it thus runs : ' When the collector of the Diwan asks the Hindus to pay the tax, they should pay it...collector may do so. The object of such humiliation is to prove the obedience of infidel subjects under protection, and to promote the glory of the Islam,...
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A Silence in the City and Other Stories

Marie Cruz Gabriel - 1996 - 560 pages
...inferiority. As a historian cf the Sultanate had written in the fourteenth century: " When the collector . . . asks the Hindus to pay the tax, they should pay it...collector may do so. ... The object of such humiliation ... is to prove the obedience of infidel subjects under protection, and to promote the glory of Islam,...
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A Silence in the City and Other Stories

Marie Cruz Gabriel - 1996 - 376 pages
...inferiority. As a historian cf the Sultanate had written in the fourteenth century: " When the collector . . . asks the Hindus to pay the tax, they should pay it...collector may do so. ... The object of such humiliation ... is to prove the obedience of infidel subjects under protection, and to promote the glory of Islam,...
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Hindu Myth, Hindu History, Religion, Art, and Politics

Heinrich von Stietencron - Civilization, Hindu - 2005 - 352 pages
...Blochmann in his translation of the A "mi-Akbarl II: 247, n. 2: "When the Collector of the Diwan asks them [the Hindus] to pay the tax, they should pay it with...mouths without the slightest fear of contamination (taqazzuz), so that the Collector may do so. In this state [with their mouths open] they should stand...
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