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186 sent to Aurangzib from the revenue of Malwa, and for the remaining five lakhs he was asked to take away some fiefs from the officers in Nandurbar. But the revenue of that district actually brought in Rs. 92,000, and Aurangzib desired some other jagir to make up the balance.

The financial wrangle between father and son dragged on for years. Shah Jahan

wished to put a stop to the drain of money to the Deccan, and here was Aurangzib asking for cash from other provinces in the place of jagirs in the Deccan! The jagirdars whose lands he had appropriated by Imperial sanction, intrigued at Court and persuaded the Emperor that the Prince was realising from these fiefs more than his sanctioned pay, while the ousted officers, with only sterile jagirs left to them, were starving. An incorrect reading of the revenue papers deepened the same conviction in the Emperor's mind and he angrily wrote to Aurangzib: "It is unworthy of a Musalman and an act of injustice to take for yourself all the productive villages of a parganah and to assign to others only the less productive lands. I order you to take half a lakh worth of less productive land in the parga-